One of the blogs I enjoy reading are the Being Pregnant and Toddler Times on Babble. I started reading it because one of the writers for Being Pregnant was also a pregnant runner. She has since had her baby and has probably moved on to their "first year" series. I kept reading Being Pregnant because I'm kinda passionate about pregnancy and birth after the whole experience.
So... today's post really intrigued me about predicting a baby's gender. I never did any of the "pee on things" tests but most things pointed to having a girl. I carried out and round (most say that's a girl) verses carrying low (supposedly a boy). I was also very sick from 6-14 weeks (also a "girl" thing). Obviously they were all wrong for us. I just calculated the Myan calendar thing that is mentioned in one of the slides and it also said that N would have been a girl. (I was 29 years old when I conceived in the year 2009= even numer = girl per the calculation) Oops. Wrong again.
Supposedly we could even predict a future child's gender by N's hairline. Hmmmm... looks like it would be boy because his hairline doesn't come to a point (supposedly meaning we would have the same gender as the first). Interesting stuff.
Did you all look up old wives tales when you were pregnant? I admit that I did a lot because we were'nt finding out N's gender until birth, which left 9+ months of looking up these things.
Were they right or wrong for you?
I did look up old wives tales - bought a book of them. It was a lot of fun for my husband and I. Mine was split...and the odd/even thing didn't work for me either. :)
ReplyDeleteI looked into a bunch of them and they ALL said boy and they were right. The creepiest was my Chinese neighbour who saw me on the driveway one day and said, "Oh! I see you're having a boy! Congrats!" and she was right. We had just found out it was a boy but hadn't told anyone yet! I think I looked like a classic, low, pointy boy belly!
ReplyDeleteHAHA! I guess that's why they work some of the time and not at all for others. They are fun to do anyway.
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