Does anyone gestate longer with girls than boys?

[1babysmom]

The reason I'm curious as to how common it is is because of the general consensus that girls usually do better born early than boys do (and this sometimes seems to even mean babies born AFTER 37 weeks for some). I have a good feeling that we're having a boy this time, but all this pregnancy I've also had a feeling I'm going to go into labor earlier than with the girls...who were both born at 40+ weeks. But it makes me nervous simply because of the "girls do better earlier than boys" thing. Then again, my best friend has had two boys born fairly earl (37ish weeks and 35.5 weeks) who did fine but her DD was born at like 38.5 weeks and she really feels more comfortable birthing earlier with boys than girls.

[MaerynPearl]

ds was past his due date and dd was before, but I honestly do not feel their gender had anything to do with it.

my mother (mind you this was 17-29 years ago) was all over with hers

her first, my brother, was past due. I was born on my due date, my little brother was a few days before he was due, my baby brother was a month early and my baby sister was a month and half early...

so it seemed for her it was more birth order than gender.

[Veronika01]

My oldest is a boy and was born at 33w gestation. He spent 12 days in intensive care due to feeding issues, but was born breathing on his own. My second iss a girl, born at 36w6d. My third is a girl, born at 39w4d. My fourth is a girl, born at 35w5d (this past Monday). All of my girls have been fine, born breathing and healthy. I've heard that girls are generally stronger at birth and during infancy than boys, but I also think it depends on the individual child.

[sanguine_speed]

Any insight offered here would be anecdotal as each of us has too few babies to really make generalizations, but perhaps there are studies about whether boys tend to come earlier than girls or vice versa. Then again, I think we'd have heard about it if the research existed to point one way or another.

In my case, I had a girl induced at 38 weeks, a girl spontaneously at 39 weeks and a boy by pPROM at 34 weeks. My boy was also oxygen deprived and had to be resuscitated/entubated/fed through IV. He had a hard time for a 34-weeker, but he was also breech and his head got caught for a while, so who's to say how he would have done vertex.