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I feel like mine have been pretty similar but I had more acne with my son and more nausea with my daughter. That said, my son was born in summer and my daughter in the Fall, so I think the acne may have been related to the weather more than anything and I think the increased nausea may have been because I was chasing a toddler around and not able to rest as much. I'm pregnant now with #3 and so far the main symptoms have been nausea in the evenings and fatigue. I've also had bad heartburn with all three and pretty strong food aversions.

Boy and girl mama here! Both pregnancies were VERY different and that's what tipped me off that the second was a girl. With DS I had slight nausea the first trimester but never threw up...after that NOTHING it was as if I wasn't pregnant at all other than towards the end when I got very swollen. With DD I had the works: throwing up, acne, slow hair growth, the mood swings, and so on.

Although I didn't think I could be so lucky to get a pair so quickly, my symptoms proved to be right and I had a boy and girl, two extremely different pregnancies.

My second pregnancy was way more difficult than and so different my first. With my first (a boy) I barely felt pregnant outside of my belly. I was running and crawling around after the 18 month old I nannies and felt fantastic up until I delivered at 40 weeks. I had almost no morning sickness and almost no fatigue. I had some heartburn, but it started in the third trimester and it was nowhere near the level of my second pregnancy.

With my second (a girl), my morning sickness started the day before I got my positive test. I threw up a lot, not everyday, but I only threw up once with my first pregnancy. My heartburn was terrible and started at like 6 weeks. I was exhausted. I did have to keep up with my (very energetic) toddler, but it was constant...even in the second trimester. Another weird thing was my nails and hair. I never noticed significant growth with my first pregnancy, but they grew like crazy with my daughter. I had a lot of ingrown hairs on my belly and upper thighs...I think it was related to quick hair growth. It was so weird! I had breakouts regularly with both kids, but they were definitely worse with my daughter.

My pregnancies have been completely different and I have one girl and am having a second.

First was a boy, 2nd a girl. Fairly similar pregnancies except for a few symptoms.
With DS I had a ton of nose bleeds, maybe 1 with DD. I had a bad neck rash in the 3rd trimester with DS also, not with DD.
With DD I gagged when brushing my teeth, didn't have that with DS at all.

Very similar, only thing was that the nausea lasted longer and was slightly more severe with number 2. 1 boy, then 1 girl.

I was much less sick with my second boy. I felt sooo different that I was sure he'd be a girl.

My girls I have been way more nauseous for! My third I am more tired than my first or second and my first I got more pimples but I was also pretty young (early 20s) so maybe my skin was just different? My second I had a lot of RLP but there's still room for that now because I'm only 16 weeks with #3.

LO1-Gained a ton (70+ pounds), fortunately a lot of water weight, first trimester had horrible nausea and then acid reflux was awful with vomiting almost nightly throughout the pregnancy. Had major bleeding episode at 12 weeks.
LO2-Didn't gain as much and lost the weight more quickly, some nausea throughout but not too bad, occasional vomiting but not as bad as LO1.
LO3-So far (30 weeks in), haven't vomited once. Nausea was even minimal at beginning and haven't really had much since. Mainly just really tired but probably due to fact I have two other little ones. Easiest pregnancy so far.

Boy, Girl, TG.

We were team green with both, so it was fun to compare symptoms and try to guess if that meant anything. My second pregnancy I was more nauseas, and had way more food aversions, and those symptoms lasted longer than with my first. I was also more exhausted. I felt like I was also craving bad foods a lot more than I did with my first, although weight gain was about the same. I carried differently as well. With my second I was only belly, and it stuck straight out. Everyone (including me) thought it was a boy. I ended up having two girls!

My 3 pregnancies were all very different each time, not really comparable at all.. and I had 3 girls.

Overall mine were fairly similar. They had some differences but I consider them minor (like length and degree of morning sickness- first one was longer at the beginning and I puked more and the second was shorter with no puking but worse aversions and then came back again at the end WITH puking lol). Lots of fatigue in the first trimester with both, awful heartburn at the end (doesn't everyone get this??), carried the same though I gained more weight with #2. I got some melasma with both of them (although not on my face, just other areas). Uncomplicated, easy pregnancies.

Girl, Boy

Mine were similar symptom wise, both girls. But 2nd one I have been way way more uncomfortable, feet hurt, back hurts, just kinda miserable which I didn't get last time.

I've felt much worse with this pregnancy than with my daughter's (currently almost 35 weeks with a boy) but I mostly point to tiredness and second pregnancy syndrome, as my midwives call it, rather than the sex of the baby, but you never know....

It's hard for me to really say. I was pretty sure this LO (currently pregnant) was another boy because while I was nauseous, it wasn't anything like my son. I had always heard that less nausea meant boy and just figured my son / all the vomiting with him was a weird anomaly. Nope - it's a girl. I have experienced a bunch of weird symptoms like really bad heartburn, super vivid dreams, and cystic acne (yum!) which was different.

I question whether my symptoms - namely nausea - were more muted with #2 because I couldn't wallow in it. My son didn't care if I felt sick and I didn't have time to feel sorry for myself. I think having to get up and live life helped me TONS. I also think maybe some of my nausea with him was heartburn and I didn't know the difference and the power of treating it until the second time around.

@pachamama: haha, it's mostly a joke/euphemism they use for all the aches and pains that come on earlier the second time, plus the variety of extra BH, SPD and other stuff. It's not exactly the answer I want when I feel like crap but it's somehow reassuring, at least to me.

@LBee: ditto to the nausea part. All I ever felt like doing when I was nauseous was laying down...but every single time I felt better once I forced myself up and got outside or did something more active. With my second, that's just the way I have to be because of my 2 yo, so it made the nausea more bearable.

My pregnancies have been so different (the first was much easier), but both are girls.

Things that are different this time: my age (3.5 year gap), my fitness level (I was working out a lot more before this current pregnancy), my diet (I am vegan now). I thought the fitness piece would help me feel better during the 1st trimester, but here I am at 38 weeks, and I think I've worked out like 4 times total.

All 4 pregnancies were about the same for me (2 boys, 1 girl)-the nausea went away quicker with my miscarriage, around 8 weeks.