What do you think of this?

[blas]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/...971135421.html

I'd love feedback from members on here who are smokers and have had children, particularly smokers who have had girls.

Or nonsmokers....how many boys do you have?

Do ya'll think this is bunk or do you think there is some truth to this?

Regardless, I don't advocate smoking during pregnancy, NOR do I advocate smoking in general. It is a disgusting habbit that has already taken over my life, and I advise anyone who doesn't smoke to never smoke.........

[Ryu]

i think its possible due to the inequality of viability of sexes before birth, whether its causation rather than coincidence, i dont know
either way, you definitely shouldnt smoke if you could possibly be pregnant, if you must smoke at all

[Knightmare]

I smoke. And I hate it. But I do it. Ugh.
Anyway.
The ex smokes, and smoked during pregnancy. We have a girl (A beautiful, smart, talented, tall, happy girl!).
However, I have 3 brothers that do not smoke.
One bro and sis-in-law have two daughters.
Another bro and sis-in-law have a daughter.
The last (and oldest brother) has never been married, and does not want kids. But, in his younger days, he was a whore, and probably has about 3 dozen kids in Michigan, New Mexico, New York and Colorado that he doesn't know about.

So, I don't believe the research. Out of 4 girls born (all within 2 years of each other) only one was conceived by parents that smoked.

I agree, blas. Don't smoke. Don't start smoking. If you smoke now, try to quit. Smoking does not make you cool, kids. I've been smoking for 11 years now, and I hate every minute of it (except for that first one in the morning. Mmmmm!).

"Thanks, Duke! Now we know!"
"And knowing's half the battle!"

GI Jooooooe!

[Ree]

There may be something to it.
I read an article in the paper yesterday, that there are already concerns because there has been a very sudden increase in the ratio of girls over boys, and scientists are trying to figure out why.

They aren't sure if it's environmental, or not.

I do know, though, in my own family the results aren't conclusive:
Brother smoked, so did wife - 1 girl, 1 boy
Brother smoked, wife didn't - 2 boys
Sister didn't smoke - husband did 1 boy, 1 girl
Brother smoked, wife didn't - 3 girls
Brother smoked, wife didn't - 2 boys, 1 girl
Sister didn't smoke, husband did with the first, but not the second - 2 boys
I didn't smoke, husband did - 1 girl

And going into the next generation:
Niece and husband don't smoke - 2 girls
Nephew and wife don't smoke - 1 boy

Seems pretty evenly divided and random, actually.

[AFpheonix]

Knightmare, you have a very small sample size going. You aren't going to find a very good trend with that few subjects.

My family happens to support the research, as my father smoked, and out of 6 children, 5 of us are female. But again, small sample size, so I can't take my particular experience as gospel.

[sportsmom]

I don't understand what the mother smoking or not has to do with it. The chromosome that determines sex comes from the father. In fact, that's always been a joke between hubby and I when he tells me "we have all girls because you had them last."

Neither of us smoke and we have three beautiful girls.

[Ryu]

its the fact that males have lower survivorship (not positive how true this is but i have heard it several times before from real sources so...) before being born so smoke is even more deadly to them hence females surviving better, its no that its only females being conceived just their surviving to be born more

[blas]

This study claims that the mother smoking increases the chances by 1/3 if only she smokes. If the father does as well, then it's 1/2. So I guess it's 50/50 if you both smoke???

The part where it says that it kills male sperm cells (or sperm carrying the Y chromosome or however that works), I'm assuming that would be the father smoking part?

[GyroKat]

My parents were smoking, I'm a girl.
My mother married another smoker, then had a boy and a girl.
My father also married another smoker and had a boy and a girl.

My boyfriend and his brother's parents were both smokers.

I'd say it's hard to prove whether the article is right, since a lot of other factors can also kill the "male" sperm.

[AFpheonix]

I don't understand what the mother smoking or not has to do with it. The chromosome that determines sex comes from the father.

Second hand smoke inhalation, perhaps?

[myswtghst]

Putting in my two cents.

My mom smoked up until she found out she was pregnant with me. I'm a girl. She then quit, and never took it up again. She later got pregnant again, and had a boy. So maybe there is something to it, though it may just be coincidental.

And I smoke, but I'm setting my quit deadline for next week. My little brother comes home from college, and he'll kill me if I ever smoke around him, so that should help give me willpower, as he's one of my best friends, and now that he's 21, I'll get to take him to the bar with me.

[Phoenix79]

I don't think there's much to it, but I'm only going from my own experience.

My husband and I don't have children, but in his family:
His Mom and Dad both smoked - 2 boys and 1 girl
His brother and his wife smoke - 3 boys! she smoked during all three pregnancies

In my family -
Mom and Dad both smoked, but Mom quit during pregnancy - 2 girls.

A friend of mine has two kids - she smoked through pregnancy on both, father smoked as well - 1 girl and 1 boy.

I know it is still too small of a base to make a definite decision on, but in my experience the smoking doesn't seem to affect the sex of the baby.

Phoenix

[NightAngel]

I'll weigh in with 2 boys and a girl- father and mother (me) both smoke. Girls run in my family- as a matter of fact I'm the first person in over 100 years in my family to have a boy, let alone two.

Personally, I think it's pretty much random...

[Titi]

I have to agree with others, there is no way to tell.

I smoke, and I smoked 2 packs a day and my ex smoked as well when I got pregnant with my son. (My ex's only boy and he has 5 other kids besides mine.)

I smoked alot less about 5 cigs a day and my DH didn't smoke when I got pregnant with my daughter.

So unless I'm totally weird, that study has no merit. IMO.

(My ex said something about taking more vitamen E to get a boy and how it worked.)

[justZu]

My husband is the youngest of five boys. His mom smoked, his dad did not. All brothers married and had kids:
bro 1 & wife(nonsmokers) - 2 girls, one boy
bro 2 & wife(bro smoked, wife may have smoked) - 2 boys
bro 3 & wife(non smokers) - 3 boys
bro 4 & wife(nonsmokers) - 3 boys, one girl
husband & me(nonsmokers) - 2 boys, one girl

I think if smoking had a significant effect on a baby's sex it would've been very evident in the 1940's and 50's. Everybody smoked constantly back then.