Monday, March 16, 2009

It's almost time...


This pregnancy is really flying by for me. (I guess that's what happens when you a lose a month at the beginning). I'm not mentally prepared to make the switch to maternity clothes, but that day is getting imminently closer. I thought this would be a good time to share a long held theory I've had about Hemmert babies, and how that might apply to me and this baby. First, a quick biology lesson: the father is ultimately responsible for determining the gender of the baby. (Told you it was quick). So despite all of the girls on my side of the family, it's Jared's family that counts. Having said that, we will not use his sisters as examples since they have nothing to do with determining their children's gender. That leaves 4 Hemmert brothers.

We will skip Brother A for a moment and come back.
Brother B: 4 boys, 0 girls
Brother C (Jared): 2 boys, 0 girls
Brother D: 1 boy, 0 girls
Brother A: 1 boy, and just had 1 girl (I said they should have named her 'Hope', but they didn't listen)

My theory was that Hemmert boys can NOT produce girls. It has effectively been disproven by Brother A, however, I still think there is some sort of bias towards "male" in the DNA. Brother D even asked an OB/GYN doctor while he was on that rotation if it were possible that there was something to my theory, and the doctor said it's still 50-50. The odds of having 8 boys in a row is .0039 if you're counting. In a week or two hopefully we'll find out if we've cracked the 'code' as well, but I'm not entirely convinced that the odds are in my favor. I'll put up the requisite 'blogger' poll for fun, but you know where my vote is!


5 comments:

Heidi said...

I think we're all curious to see if your theory proves true!!

Julie Hemmert said...

Only because of my theory. Heidi is having a girl and they always come in twos. Mallory was the odd one out, like Chandler, who had a 50/50 chance and happened to be a boy.

LaurieJ said...

My Dr. told me that it is actually 51 to 49% in favor of girls... Because the X sperm is heavier making it stronger??? How would you like to be the scientist on that experiment :-)
Your baby will be darling no matter what! Can't wait to find out

Anna said...

I had a good laugh out of that! I always thought we would only have one boy (Seth being the only boy out of EIGHT!), and I was quite shocked to find out this last baby was a boy. In fact, I didn't really believe it until I could see for myself. Miracles do happen, good luck! However, having all boys has it's advantages!!

"M" Clan said...

That is funny- so you'll have 3 boys then! :)