


Weight Gain: With my daughter's pregnancy, I gained 55lbs! Believe me, at 5'2 and starting out pretty thin, this was a huge issue for me from walking to standing for long periods of time. The reason I gained so much weight wasn't because of her size however, but because I was diagnosed with preclampsia ( in my third trimester ) I was carrying around 3 times the amount of amniotic fluid then a 'normal pregnancy' and man did I feel it everywhere.
With my son's pregnancy, I gained about 45lbs which wasn't awful to me because due to his size, I was crazy big! Although it is true what they say about boy's being a lot lower as well so I felt like my poor stomach was bulging out all the time!
Heartbeat : My daughter's heartbeat was always in the 150's so before we even know what her gender was, that was our possibly indicator that she could be a girl ( myth's believe that over 140 it's a girl and under it's a boy ) however! When I went in for our son's 12 week appointment, his heartbeat was in the 150 range as well so I thought for sure we were having a girl until we had our harmony test results that it was a boy! Don't always believe what you hear!
Beauty: Another myth that happens with girl and boy pregnancies are the joys of hormones and acne. With my daughter, wow was I bloated and felt like a teenager girl with how bad my acne was all over my face. I'll spare the details but I tried everything to get rid of them. With my son's pregnancy, you apparently did get a glow and mine seemed to be beaming from my second trimester well into my third. My face looked great and my nails and hair felt thicker and softer!
Cravings: My cravings with my son were somewhat similar to my daughter's. I loved ice cream, fruit ( so many berry salads! ) and chocolate. The one big difference was I really craved pickles and chicken sandwiches with my son. I laugh because I never really liked pickles but I could almost down an entire jar of them in 2 sittings. Sour = amazing.
Movement: Well into my third trimester, I couldn't feel my daughter as much due to all the fluid. It made me nervous I'll admit but once in a while my friends would start laughing because she'd somehow love to curl up on my right rib cage for hours at a time. All you would see is a huge hump! With my son, he would barely sit still and because I didn't have that much fluid around him, I'd feel everything! His fingers wiggling ( or at least that's what I would think it was ! ) his kicks, his hiccups and lots of rolling around! It's true, boys are really active!
If you've had gender difference pregnancies were yours the same?
