Interesting article - Skinny women are likelier to have girls

I'm slim and always have been and pg with DS3. I read this atricle from England where it said that mostly healthy women get boys and less healthy women get girls.

I think it depends on how you are skinny.  If you exercise, eat healthy and are slim/skinny, then you are more likely to have boys I think.  But if you are skinny because you are not eating, starving yourself, watching your weight all the time and just eat the bare minimum and not a whole lot of meat, then you are more likely to have girls.  As for women who are not skinny, that also depends too. If you are heavy, but on a diet because you are trying to lose the weight, you are more likely to have girls.  That's what I noticed from friends so it's not really scientific. 

If my memory serves me correctly, there was a post on here maybe a year or so ago about how fat people were more likely to have girls!!! 

I think both have girls!!!

 not true. im super skinny, vegetarian and have all boys.

I'm 5'4 and when not pregnant I'm never over 100lbs if that. Mom of 3 boys here. wish it was true!

I was 5'4" and 110 lbs when I got pregnant with my boy.  My girl was HT.  On the flip side, I know a lady who is my height and probably over 200 lbs and her one and only is a girl.  And, I will add, people have gotten heavier (in the US) in general, and the ratio is still roughly 50:50 for boys and girls. 

 

I am pretty thin and have 4 boys. I have a friend that is extremely skinny and has a boy. My sis in law is not skinny and has girls, and of course I have friends who have boys and girls and have weighed the same when they got pregnant with each. I don't buy it.

 Both of my girls were conceived at 200lbs.

 I'm a fatty and have a girl

Well.

I was 150 and concieved DS1

I was 160 and concieved DS2

I was 135 and concieved DS3

I was 184 and concieved DD1

SO it doesn't seem to have mattered for me...I do think there is a little bit of truth SOMEWHERE in these studies though.

Seriously, I don't know where they come up with this stuff. I once read an article that said beautiful women are more likely to have girls. Some sort of survival of the fittest theory. Only this was survival of the prettiest, lol. My friend read it too and asked me what I thought. At the time Victoria Beckham had all boys, and she is considered beautiful. I just mentioned that to her. Really, who even bothers to do so called research and waste money on this crap? You get what you get. And so many people have boys and girls and weigh the same and look the same each time they get pregnant. That is enough to discredit all these theories for me.

 I almost didn't read this because I was like, "Great. Another thing to blame myself for - being too much of a fat ass to have a girl..." Glad I read - and thanks to PPs for posting your info. Takes some of the sting away! (And I conceived this one ten pounds lighter...so maybe, just maybe? Naaaah. Who am I kidding? God mocks me...)

kimberj103:

 I almost didn't read this because I was like, "Great. Another thing to blame myself for - being too much of a fat ass to have a girl..." Glad I read - and thanks to PPs for posting your info. Takes some of the sting away! (And I conceived this one ten pounds lighter...so maybe, just maybe? Naaaah. Who am I kidding? God mocks me...)

After reading this, i will hope, with all my heart, that the theory has some truth in it!! :) Good luck honey!

That article is B*&$&%T.  I am 5'5" and was 98 pounds when i conceived my first son.  If that isn't skinny, then I don't know what is :)

 Thanks, Coco! I'll be okay eventually, either way, right?