Feeling more nausea means a girl?

Some people believe that more severe morning sickness indicates that the baby will be born female. The reasoning is that women carrying girls have high levels of hormones, which worsens morning sickness, while women carrying boys have less nausea because hormone levels are lower. Is this true?

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Not sure if that's the case actually. I think how each mum responds to hormonal changes is just different. I'm expecting a girl and I have almost no nausea and no vomiting throughout my pregnancy (I'm 36 weeks now). The only nausea I got was from motion sickness but that's also sporadic. One friend who delivered a girl also didn't have morning sickness. Another friend who's also expecting a girl had her morning sickness a lot worse. She threw up 4-5 times a day. Hers also persisted longer than first tri.

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