Before I had my full anatomy scan at 20 weeks, I couldn’t wait to find out if we were having a boy or a girl.  I even posted the following question on my local listserv:  I have a 17 month old son and I’m currently pregnant with my second child. I’m dying of curiosity about the sex — we don’t find out for another 4 weeks! Anecdotally my friends that have a boy and a girl tell me that the pregnancies were so different. I guess the old wives’ tale is that you’re much more sick when you’re pregnant with a girl. I don’t really believe that old wives’ tale, but I am curious if our bodies react differently to carrying babies of different genders. This pregnancy seemed a little harder (I was very sick the entire first trimester with both), but that could be because I had a toddler to chase around. If you have a boy and a girl, did the pregnancies feel different? If so, how?

I received a ton of responses from parents with two children.  Most of the respondents said: 1) both pregnancies were so different they were sure they were having an opposite gender child the second time around, but they had a child of the same gender; 2) both pregnancies felt so similar they were sure they were having another child of the same gender, but ended up having a child of the opposite gender.

My experience aligned with the moms who had similar pregnancies both times, but ended up with a boy and a girl.  My pregnancies with Charlie and Olive were very similar in that I was sick until the 14th week, and then felt great throughout my second trimester. I was definitely more uncomfortable in my third trimester when I was pregnant with Charlie, but that was largely because I gained so much more weight than when I was pregnant with Olive.

I did have a feeling that we were having a girl, but I couldn’t wait to officially find out!  So a couple of weeks before my full anatomy scan, I purchased this gender prediction test, which can be taken as early as 6 weeks into your pregnancy. You pee into a plastic cup first thing in the morning, let it cool 2-3 minutes, and then use the dropper to put a couple drops of pee onto the test.  The results appear instantly — pink for a girl, and blue for a boy.

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The test instantly turned pink!  I wasn’t sure how accurate the test was — it has a 50% chance of being correct after all — but I guess in my case it did turn out to be accurate.

For those of you with multiple children, did the pregnancies feel different?  For those of you who are dying know, would you take a gender prediction test?