This post was written Sept. 28.
I’m already wondering what the gender of this baby will be. I’m just at 5 weeks right now, but I figure the chromosomes are already decided so I’m starting to over-analyze symptoms. It’s what I do.
So far…
No morning sickness = boy (though it’s way too early to tell, since the morning sickness stuff is probably yet to come)
(Updated to add: Morning sickness is a joke. Let’s be more accurate and call it “all-day-sickness.” Because that’s what it is and that’s what hit me around week 7. Boo.)
Craving ONLY salty foods = boy. No sweet cravings at all, which is unusual for me.
(Updated to add: This changed too. And then changed back again. Some days I want cupcakes, some days I want pickles and BBQ chips. Weird.)
Constipation and mild heartburn. Although I hear they’re common with pregnancy in general so that’s not gender specific.
BUT the Chinese birth chart says girl, according to my age and conception date. So…I guess we’ll find out in a few months! The hubs definitely wants a boy. I want one of each so if we have a girl first, I’m totally cool with that, but then the pressure would be on for #2 to be a boy, and that I don’t like so much. So I kind of want a boy first just to appease the hubs and get it out of the way, as bad as that sounds. Plus, we already have a boy name picked out. Girl names? Not so much. I’ve narrowed the middle name down to three names that we really like that have meaning for our families, but first names are TOUGH! Picking names is stressful business.
But... Will There Be Cake? 
If it’s any help, the Chinese birth chart correctly predicted a girl for us… And I wasn’t really sick…more of a “I’m going to throw up if I don’t eat everything in sight” type of feeling. Let’s just say I didn’t throw up and there were a lot of crumbs under my desk!
Almost everyone has been guessing girl for us so I think I’ll actually be surprised if it’s a boy. I can’t really tell one way or the other, but I’ll know in a few weeks!
I didn’t have any morning sickness and the Chinese chart said girl. We see how that worked out. Yet one of my bffs had lots of morning sickness and it is a boy she’ll have in January. It was funny that I did kind of think all along it was a boy bit that could have just been luck guessing the gender more than anything.
Finally someone that is proving that stupid Chinese Birth Chart wrong! Although at this point I’ve already told myself I’m having a girl so many times, I think I’ll be disappointed if I don’t!
I’ve always wanted a girl, but the moment the u/s tech told us we were having a boy I realized just how badly I wanted a son. Whatever you’re having, it’ll be the best little baby ever!