if a couple has a baby girl what is the chance of the second baby being a girl?

Answer 1

50%

Answer 2

Where were you when I needed that info hedychambers?! I'm on boy number 3 and all I wanted was one girl!! LOL I think of all the responses to this question, hedychambers answered it by far the best. I too believe that even though you obviously have a 50/50 chance of one or the other, some people are just more predisposed to have one sex or the other. My maternal grandparents had 3 girls and only wanted one boy, I'm the exact opposite. My mother had me, and then my brother. My fiance's family consists of 3 boys and 1 girl. I'm sure there are a lot of people on here with similar stories. Some have girls, some have boys, and some are lucky enough to get both.

Answer 3

I studied genetics, and I love it....Amazing !!!!
This is interesting:
Why Boys? Why Girls?
Eileen Painter loves being the mom of an all-boy brood. But she doesn't hesitate to say how she felt when a sonogram revealed that her fourth -- and final -- child would have a penis, just like the rest of them. "I cried right on the table -- for myself and for my husband, too, because he'd never have the chance to be a father to a daughter," says the 40-year-old New Jersey mom. Now that her youngest is nearly 2, Painter says she's at peace with her testosterone-dominated lot in life. "I actually think four boys is the perfect family for me," she muses. "It doesn't mean I'm not sad sometimes that I won't have a daughter, but the feelings are definitely fleeting."

Were the Painters predisposed to birthing boys? Or is the gender of our children, whether first or fifth in line, truly determined by some celestial crapshoot?

"Statistically, each conception is an individual event, so the chance of conceiving a boy or girl should be 50-50 every time," says Alan DeCherney, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. "In reality, though, it tends to be true that the more children you have of one gender, the more likely you are to have another of that same sex," he adds. To wit, a 1999 survey of more than 1 million births in Denmark over a 30-year period found that families with boys were "significantly more likely than expected to have another boy."


Numerous Gender Theories
Exactly why some couples might be inclined to churn out baby after baby of the same sex is a question parents and pundits have been trying to answer for ages.

Survival of the fittest: One theory, says Dr. DeCherney, suggests that some men make less-viable Y-bearing (or boy-making) sperm than X-bearing (or girl-making) sperm, and vice versa. These sperm may in one manner or another be outperformed by their counterparts: In some cases, not as many Y-bearing sperm ultimately reach the egg or, if and when they do, they make less-viable embryos, which are less likely to survive. The chances of successfully conceiving a girl or boy may then be tipped in the opposite gender's favor.

Parents' age: A survey published in the March 2000 issue of Fertility and Sterility reviewed 20 years of birth records and found that advanced maternal and paternal age (40 and older) was associated with a higher incidence of female births.

Environment: Exposure to toxins and other environmental contaminants may also skew the sex ratio, mostly in favor of females. There is even some evidence showing that hormonal changes brought on by severe stress -- such as a death in the family, job loss, or natural disasters like earthquakes and floods -- increase a couple's likelihood of having a girl.

Answer 4

This depends on how many sisters HE has. The male is the one that determines the babies sex. If he is the only boy out of 4 girls, the chance is likely. But on the other hand, if he has 3 brothers and a sister, its slim! It all depends on the genes. Go back in his family tree and see the ratio of boys to girls. That should give you some sort of idea.

Answer 5

Hard to say exactly.
The gender is determined by the man.
Some men and can a predisposition to have either boys or girls.
Since the first baby was a girl, this raises the likelyhood that the father has a predisposition towards girls.

The chances are above 50%, but I can't give you and exact number.

Answer 6

Do you by any chance know if you had sex right on ovulation day or as close to it as possible?? Or if you had sex the days leading up to it?? If you had sex the days leading up to ovulation there is a greater chance of a girl because those sperm take longer to get to the egg, but they also live longer, while male carrying sperm have a shorter life span, but are faster swimmers. If you can break this all down, you kind have a good shot of figuring out the babies sex. Good Luck!!

Answer 7

The sex of a baby is determined by the fathers sperm and how strong his little swimmers are. Basically if the sperm is new, (less then 24 hours old, the chances of having a boy is greater), as the sperm gets older, (more than 24 hours but less than 48 hours old) then a girl is more likely. The sex of prior children has no bearing on the sex of a current pregnancy.

Answer 8

Probably 50%. But do ya know something about XX and XY. Only father can give Y to his partner to have a baby boy . To check if ya give Y or not just take the pregnancy test if yo wife is already pregnant. Else test yourself if you be able to deliver Y to your wife or not.

Answer 9

50/50 again, it's just chance hon, the male's genetics decides the sex, so i would say go by his family,if there are a lot of girls, then possibly and vice versa, if there are an even number of both, then it will probably be a boy.

Answer 10

50/50