Sunday, December 11, 2011

Old Wives Tales: Boy or Girl?

Just for fun, I Googled different wives tales that are supposed to predict the gender of the baby. I'm dying to know!

Carrying high - Girl
Carrying low - Boy (may be too soon to really tell for sure)

Heartbeat 140+ - Girl (it was 155 at one appointment, 145 at the next)
Heartbeat >140 - Boy

Crave sweets - Girl
Crave salts - Boy (but this was true pre-pregnancy as well)


Chinese Gender Predictor: Takes the mother's age and the month the child is conceived. It says Girl.

Mayan Legend looks at the mother's age and the year of conception. If both are even or odd, it's a girl. If one's even and one's odd, it's a boy.
August 2011 - Even, Odd - Boy

Sick as a dog during the first trimester - Girl
Little or no morning sickness - Boy

Dreams that you are having a boy - Girl (however, my midwife said she dreamed she was having a boy and had a boy...actually she said she dreamed about a scrotum and had a boy. My dream had the whole baby and I didn't actually see his scrotum...)
Dream about having a girl - Boy

Graceful throughout pregnancy - Girl
Clumsy - Boy (I'm dropping more things than usual...)


Prefers resting on right side - Girl
Prefers to lay on left side - Boy

Dad-to-be gains weight while you are pregnant - Girl
Doesn’t gain weight - Boy 

Unchanged hair - Girl
Thicker hair - Boy

No increase in headaches - Girl
Having Headaches - Boy (almost every evening I develop a headache...this is a new development)

Final Score:

Boy - 8
Girl -  4





So, will we have someone that looks like this?


 Or like this?


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