Gender

**onthefly** · February 19th, 2014, 01:13 PM

I dunno, I just read that somewhere
Boy Or Girl? It's In The Father's Genes -- ScienceDaily
Beautiful People Have More Daughters | Psychology Today

**Khaleesi** · February 19th, 2014, 01:55 PM

That's really interesting MadB, My DH is an only child but his Dad had 5 sisters & 3 brothers.

**~Gee_Whizzy~** · February 19th, 2014, 02:07 PM

I dunno, I just read that somewhere
Boy Or Girl? It's In The Father's Genes -- ScienceDaily
Beautiful People Have More Daughters | Psychology Today

wow! it now, of course, explains why DH and I have two girls...we're both hawt

**CinderToriella** · February 19th, 2014, 02:35 PM

I had two girls as well !!!

go DF and me hahaha

**Taurean** · February 19th, 2014, 03:13 PM

PMSL. I'm feeling super gorgeous right now too!

**Ca Plane Pour Moi** · February 19th, 2014, 04:35 PM

I dunno, I just read that somewhere
Boy Or Girl? It's In The Father's Genes -- ScienceDaily
Beautiful People Have More Daughters | Psychology Today

Explains Liebs, and I'm now thinking boy for Stormy too.

**wysiwyg** · February 19th, 2014, 06:43 PM

Talking of unscientific theories, growing up I always thought that men with facial hair will have girls - this was based on - an uncle having three girls, my friend being one of two girls and her dad had a mustache and Kevin Webster from Coronation Street having two girls. :-)

Of course who knows whether any of these had facial hair at time of conception.

Maybe now with Movember being around someone could see whether there are more girls born 9 months after November than in other months :-)

**~TT40~** · February 20th, 2014, 07:16 AM

My dad has only ever shaved once his whole life, when he was a teenager, so has had a beard forever....he had 1 girl 2 boys....
Dh has a beard and we had a girl though...(he has more girls than boys, but don't know his beard status for the other kids =p
And my uncle has a big beard, 4 girls...so 'more likely' but not 100%

**CoNNiE_Melb** · February 20th, 2014, 07:31 AM

Haha we are the exception to all of these theories it seems.

DH has a beard and is a semi-pro footballer, so super sporty... And we have 2 boys.

**~clover~** · February 20th, 2014, 12:51 PM

My fathers family were 3 boys.

All 3 boys all had a girl then a boy. (3rd in my fam was a girl).

My brother, sister, cousin & I all had girls first.
My brother & I then had another girl (sister & cousins 1st baby & brother has step dd & bil to raise, so no more there).

Ex did physical work when our 3 girls were conceived & less physical when ds was conceived.

But my dads job never changed to make a difference & my sisters birthday is the same month as my brother. So time of year the same.
My brother also does the same physical work like dad & ex. Though ex is still doing that work now & has a boy.

Don't know, lol. There are lots of coincidences in my family

**~Gee_Whizzy~** · February 20th, 2014, 01:36 PM

another "theory" I've heard of, which, I'm sure will have many exceptions to the "rule"

is that men who are more hot-headed/blokey/alpha male types etc tend to produce girls? I know amongst my group of friends/family that this "theory" is evident! The guys who are more quiet/introverted all have boys with the exception of one couple who have one of each! the couples who have girls (my hubby included) are very blokey/alpha male types

at the end of the day my true belief is that it really is a 50/50 chance of either, with, of course, external/biological influences having their own impact!

**Khaleesi** · February 20th, 2014, 01:59 PM

My DH is very much a hot-headed/blokey/alpha male type

**~Gee_Whizzy~** · February 20th, 2014, 02:26 PM

My DH is very much a hot-headed/blokey/alpha male type

mine too Cheshire

my GP (who is also a retired OBs)was the one who told me about that theory

**Ladylove** · February 20th, 2014, 02:31 PM

My hubby has minimal body hair, pretty average facial hair, we have one girl, second (another girl) expected April, which will make a two years two months age gap. So I'm choosing to buy into the beautiful parent theory

**Ladylove** · February 20th, 2014, 02:39 PM

Going back to Little O's initial question, my friend works in evolutionary biology and she says for many species a male will produce more of one gender than the other but that females (keeping in mind these are not species that mate for life) will generally choose mates who produce the same gender. So they will for whatever subconscious instinctive reason go for mates that all or mostly produce females, or mostly males. And that this choosing can be hereditry, as in the women of one family all tend to be attracted to males who produce the same gendered offspring. Makes sense for my extremely female-dominant extended fam!