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GrannieAnnie 03-15-2011 09:02 AM


Originally Posted by Lobster
Judging from the theme and nursery colours she's not going for a gendered colour scheme, so why not just do a bright multicoloured quilt that will work whatever the baby's gender? There's a really gorgeous Robert Kaufman range in a wild variety of colours which includes monkey fabrics. I have some of the abstract fabrics from that range (stripes and squares rather than animals) and they're great. I always do multicoloured non-gendered baby quilts and everyone's loved them so far.

We run to girls in my family. My mother is one of three girls and a boy, and so is her mother. My cousins are three of each, but if you take my aunt, she has two sons and a daughter, and has seven granddaughters with no grandsons (though one isn't biologically related so in terms of genetics, that's six granddaughters). A dietician I knew once said she's known this to happen in other families, and she reckons there may be something genetic going on which causes the male foetuses to be miscarried. I know that my mother had a lot of miscarriages, so perhaps there's something in it.

Antother thing------biologically speaking. Boy swimmers are faster than girls but girl swimmers live longer than boy swimmers. So sometimes the timing of having sex when the egg is very recently decended might have something to do with the sex. Girls might result from having sex a couple days earlier.

At any rate, the monkey theme will workf for a girl. But she's got in mind lady bugs for a girl. If she thinks I'm going to sew for the next several months then start over the 27th of August doing all this things with lady bugs, she's got a surprise coming. tee hee

Lobster 03-15-2011 09:06 AM

I don't think we have a family tendency to have sex at any particular point in the ovulation cycle, but perhaps that is a factor in some other way?

How about multicoloured, including monkeys AND ladybirds? I mean, neither creature is exactly gender-specific, it's not like putting princesses on a quilt. She could be giving birth to a male future entomologist!

GrannieAnnie 03-15-2011 02:26 PM


Originally Posted by Lobster
I don't think we have a family tendency to have sex at any particular point in the ovulation cycle, but perhaps that is a factor in some other way?

How about multicoloured, including monkeys AND ladybirds? I mean, neither creature is exactly gender-specific, it's not like putting princesses on a quilt. She could be giving birth to a male future entomologist!

It's the pink she wants with her lady bugs that presents a problem. lol

suern3 03-15-2011 02:45 PM


Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie

Originally Posted by suern3
Just have to ask, what makes you so sure it is a boy?

I've already had 3 grandsons.
My sister has two grandsons.
My brother had one grandson.
The only girls we've got are steps--which is good, but we don't have granddaughters of our own.

Now--------the daddies determine the sex. My son in law is one of two brothers. And his dad is one of two brothers.

Which would you bet on???????????????

tee hee

I see where you're coming from! Still, you never know. If they only had two children, they just stopped before the girls got there.:)

MadQuilter 03-15-2011 03:14 PM

Girls like monkeys too.


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