Questions for moms who have or are going to have 2nd or 3rd child....?

Question

I am pregnant with my 2nd child. So far, this pregnancy has been the complete flip-side of my daughter's. I was very sick with her very tired and felt horrible. This one, I have not had anything wrong at all (knock on wood). My Q is: Did you find that if your pregnancy was different, you were having a different sex than your other pregnancy? Or did you have a different pregnancy and you were having the same sex as before? Tell me your story :)

Answer 1

I have 2 boys and the pregnancies and the children are total opposites. I was sick with my fist and not with my second, I dropped the weight quickly after the 1st and still working on the 2nd and he is 4...lol. all pregnancies are different I don't think the sex of the baby matters. congrats and good luck

Answer 2

Well, I am currently pregnant with baby number three and each pregnancy has been completely different. Oh by the way-they are all three boys too!
My first pregnancy was completely normal-had morning sickness at the same time everyday for the first trimester and felt great after that. He was a 41+ week baby.

My second pregnancy-I had morning sickness all day and was always tired. Had to have a few fetal stree tests and he ended up being a 35 weeker who spent a week in the NICU and was sent home on an apnea monitor.

This pregnancy I never really had morning sickness. I would get nausous if I didn't eat as soon as I got hungrey but it would go away as soon as I ate. I do have a low laying placenta with this pregnancy and get really severe migraines about once a week. Every pregnancy has been so different but I wouldn't change a thing!

Answer 3

Ok, I have a four year old daughter, that pregnancy was HORRIBLE. I was always sick, had awful back pain, I gained over 100 pounds, and I swore off having any other children because of it. Now I also have a eight month old daughter, and that pregnancy was much better, I had morning sickness only once, my back hardly hurt at all, and I only gained 40 pounds. So even though I had two girls, the pregnancies were much different.

Answer 4

With my daughter, who is 5 now, I had morning sickness for 4 months straight. After that I didnt have any complications through the rest of the pregnancy. I am now almost 9 months pregnant with my son I had morning sickness, low blood sugar, I am tired all the time, I just began having real bad pelvic pains, and I can't get to sleep because my hips are sore. With this baby it seems like after one symptom goes away, another appears. It has been a misserable pregnancy compaired to the wonderful one I had with my daughter.

Answer 5

Ok. First baby I was soooooo sick for most of the pregnancy. I felt horrible all the time. I had a baby boy. This pregnancy I have felt great the whole time I have been pregnant and I am having a boy this time too.

Answer 6

My first 2 pregnancies i had girls they are now 6 and 8. i had no morning sickness, i felt great the whole time, worked all the way until i delivered. Now I am pregnant with my third, i had horrible morning sickness, tired all the time everyone kept telling me that i was carrying this baby totally opposite than my other two and i will have a boy......went to the dr. last week its a girl.

Answer 7

I am pregnant with my second. This one is completely different than my first. I am too early to tell what the sex is.

A friend of mine had 2 completely different pregnancies and she had a boy and a girl.

I have heard you often have more morning sickness with girls, but I don't know if that's for sure or a wives tale.

Answer 8

My pregnancies were very different, and both kids are boys. I think every pregnancy is different.

I was sick every day with my first son. I was on bedrest with preelampsia and diabetes. My delivery was rougher, even with the C-section, because my epidural left me with sensation during the surgery. . .(Long story.) Then I vomitted for 36 hours after delivery.

With my second son, I was huge, and felt well, aside from aches and pains (he was a complete breech and my hips and pelvis hurt). I was diabetic, but the diagnosis was missed, and my second boy weighed 10#5oz. The C-section was easier, but my body reacted adversely to the spinal anesthesia, and for 18 hours after delivery, my body temperature was 95 degrees and I was under warming blankets and on warmed IV fluids.

Not only were the pregnancies different, but the deliveries were, too. And the babies' sex was the same!

Answer 9

When I was pregnant with my oldest, I didn't have any morning sickness. I just couldn't eat enough. I was constantly hungry. When we got pregnant with my second son, I was sick, only throught the first trimester, but was pretty sick, though I did have problems with my gall bladder. When we got pregnant with my daughter, I was sssssooooooo sick, I was dehydrated, couldnt' keep anything down, and the smell of anything digestible or not was nauseating. And since I was getting more and more dehydrated, I was suffering from massive migrains, which would cause me to get sick again. This lasted for about 6-7 months.

I hope that you don't have near as much sickness as I did, but as you can see, it had nothing to do with the sex of the baby.

Good luck

Answer 10

With my son I didnt have morning sickness until I was 13 weeks. And it only lasted a week...it came in the morning, I would puke and it would go away. I was not tired, lots of energy and craved meats and fruit. No braxton hicks, or aches and pains.

With my daughter I had 24/7 sickness from 6-20 weeks, then it came back from 22-26 weeks. I had to go on 2 different rx's to calm it. I had no energy, very moody and craved sweets and carbs (ravioli, pasta, pizza). Tons of braxton hicks (that started super early, like 16 weeks), lots of aches and pains and was miserable the whole pregnancy.

The only similarities was that I gained the same amount of weight and craved hot sauce and pepsi with both kids.