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I'm not talking about the curriculum, I'm talking about my kids!
Matt and I had our 18-week sonogram on Monday and found out that the baby I'm carrying is "probably" another girl!
What are the odds of five girls in a row?! 
I love little girls, but I thought for sure I'd have a boy this time...I didn't feel sick much at all, and I did with my other pregnancies. I guess there's no rhyme or reason to morning sickness, huh?
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Congratulations on another little girl, Dawn! I think a lot of us are expecting girls here...maybe there's something in the water?
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Congratulations! We have the opposite odds here. 
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Congratulations on your 5th girl!  Isn't it funny how pregnancy can fool us?! I've been so convinced in the past that I was having a boy/girl and only to find out I was wrong. I threw out mother's intuition along time ago!  I will keep you and your sweet baby in our prayers.
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Congratulations on your sweet little baby girl, Dawn!! Prayers for you!
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Congratulations, Dawn!
Yes....many people ask us and we ask ourselves ...."what are the odds?"
We have 5 girls in a row too. Irene's (teachingmom) "club" is growing! She has 6 girls!
Maryan, is there anyone else you know (IRL or on the forum) that has only 5 boys or more in a row?
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A family with five girls in a row (Cindy, Susie, Amy, Julie, Sarah) was my first introduction to the Catholic faith in 2nd grade. I ate supper with them so often that I could say the blessing before meals right along with them, and I never forgot the love in their family. I'm sure your family's faith will be a blessing to many along the way, too. Congratulations!
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SuzanneG wrote:
Maryan, is there anyone else you know (IRL or on the forum) that has only 5 boys or more in a row? |
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Leonie has seven boys
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Congratulations, Dawn! How exciting!
A homeschooling mother I know IRL has six boys. She recently had her seventh baby -- a girl!
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Congratulations, Dawn! Boys are great, but girls are (as my dd claims) better!
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I know a family here with 8 girls--no boys!
I actually found a website the other day giving the odds of any size family having all of one gender or the other...quite interesting...
Why do some families have all boys or all girls?
According to this website, the odds of conceiving a boy or a girl in any given pregnancy is about 50/50...BUT, among all 5 (or 6, 7, etc.) children families, there will be at least some families whose children are all girls or all boys.
The odds of having all girls or all boys in a 5-child family is about 6%.
Leonie's family of 7 boys is even more unusual--only 1.6% of all 7-child families are all-boy (or all girl!)
My friend with 8 girls--she's the mother of one of the .8% of 8-child families whose children are all girls!
I'm such a statistics nerd.
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Congrats!
Very interesting statistics as well - I must be a stats nerd, too.
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I love the stats!! And I was going to answer Leonie too!!
My dh's family is all 7 boys and a dear family who just brought us the Pilgrim Virgin Statue last week has 6 boys in a row.
I am from 6 girls... and then we had a boy. We were shocked.
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Congratulations!
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I know of a family with 12 - the first 6 boys, the next 6 girls. (they all have 'J' names too!)
My neighbor had (and raised - they are all grown now) 10 boys, their 11th was a girl.
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My own dc are 3 girls, then a boy, then 2 more girls. A neighborhood family when I was growing up had this same pattern with their first 6. The second six were 5 boys and then a girl. So even though they ended up with 6 and 6, based on the first 6 you might think they had extra *odds* of having girls, but not so. Very few, if any, families have enough dc for statistically based probabilities (or whatever you call it) to work out. When people make comments about my *poor* only son, I think about this family from my childhood. We might have had lots more boys if we'd only kept going!
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Congratulations!! We were expecting another girl too, given our stats. But we got surprised! When people ask us if we were "trying for a boy" we always say, "Are you kidding? With our odds?"
Praying for a happy and healthy second half of pregnancy for you!
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My ultrasound is next week, and although I have one boy, every pregnancy has produced a girl. We are really hoping that this boy gets the brother, he has been begging for because I think if we have to wait till number 7 he will be too old to care. Good to know that there are lots having girls because everyone I know is having boys.
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My friend Diane has one girl, one boy and TEN! girls in a row!
And, her sil was one of 11..........the only girl. Then, SHE had seven boys in a row.
I do not know anyone else with TEN! girls in a row. Do you?
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I used to know a family of two twin brothers. They were both married and one brother had 4 girls and the other brother had 5 boys.
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