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November 2012 Moms
Baby Superstitions
A couple bumpies asked me for my coworkers other crazy superstitious baby advice so here is a list of what I have gotten so far. (They are all from her Catholic/Hispanic parents)
Don't let your baby look in the mirror, otherwise she will not be able to speak when she grows up.
Tickling your baby too much also causes muteness.
You have to wear red underwear or a safety pin during eclipses to bless your baby.
Your baby will look like whoever you hate during your pregnancy.
I have heard a contradictory warning from Greek Orthodox who say the baby will look like whoever the mom was fantasizing about when they conceived.
My hubby believes that flying while pregnant could cause the baby's head to explode inside my uterus, but he has no superstition as evidence to back up his theory.
Please post any superstitions you have heard below so that we can all take any precautions necessary not to give birth to a baby with a goat head.
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Re: Baby Superstitions
Here are a few crazy ones that I've heard from elderly family members:
- Rubbing your belly during pregnancy will make the baby spoiled.
- If the baby cries during christening, it means the evil spirits are leaving it's body
- Two pretty parents make an ugly baby (and vice versa)
- Don't push your belly button.. it can cause brain damage!
- DO NOT drink ice water! It gives the babes brain freeze (literally!) which will cause mental disabilities!
- Coughing while pregnant will shake baby and they could die!!
- Don't sneeze.. that's causes serious issues, too!!!
if you eat twin bananas (those kind of mutated ones which grow attached to each other), you will have twin babies
if you crave sweet - you will have a girl
if you crave sour - you will have a boy
if you are blooming throughout your pregnancy - you will have a girl
if you're not, and it's the opposite - you will have a boy
if you trip or fall - your baby will have a cleft pallate
your baby will look or be like what you are fond of most - this is hard to explain. i'll just give an example, like if you are fond of frogs during your pregnancy - then you're baby will get its traits, like he'll be able to jump really high when he grows up or something.
haha. i don't know where they get it from, or how they even come up with it. it's crazy and absurd.
"Don't reach your arms over your head or it will wrap the cord around the baby's neck" :gasp:
And my aunt told me one when I was newly pg, "If you start eating yams now, you will get a girl" .......ummm yeah....no
These are just common sense.
I used to teach in a neighborhood that was largely Puerto Rican, and I'm still in contact with a bunch of people from there. Their culture has a few that came up either during my pregnancy or someone else's...
- You can't eat in front of a pregnant woman and not offer her some of whatever you have, or she might miscarry.
- If a pregnant woman wants something, you have to give it to her, or you'll get a stye.
- My original EDD was Tuesday, November 13th. Apparently Tuesday the 13th is extremely bad luck. You're not supposed to start anything major on a Tuesday, and Tuesday the 13th is their equivalent of Friday the 13th. I got all kinds of people telling me that something bad would happen if I had my baby on that day. Then they pushed my EDD back three days. Guess now I'm good, then?
Another one I get a lot of is that I must be having a girl because I'm carrying so low. Except I saw his boy parts...
From what I've read/heard/experienced/witnessed this is one of the only OWTs that can be "true". I read that 82% of women who have heartburn will have a baby with hair
I guess that's the only good thing that will come from this then! I'm freaking miserable. Tums are my BFF and they couldn't even touch the heartburn I had last night
My doc approved me to take Zantac twice a day and it takes care of 99% of my heartburn. I had it pre-pregnancy too though. No need to suffer!
When my Tums weren't working this time around, my OB suggested to use Riopan(sp?). I just got it from Walgreens and it works really well. Definitely talk with your Dr if the Tums aren't working for you anymore.
My MIL was panicked about me taking warm baths during pregnancy. She said it would relax me and cause contractions.
I also heard that you shoudn't pick raspberries, blackberries, or strawberries and then touch your belly while pregnant or it will give the baby a red birthmark.
Tums was my BFF during pregnancy with DD and she was really born with a full head of red hair.....it never fell out either. Same for this one too. Loving my Tums!
Actually, a recent study shows that the hormone/chemical whatever that makes hair grow in the womb can also cause heartburn. Crazy!
I was told not to vacuum or I would have a miscarriage.
I've also heard that if a woman looks at a person with a deformity, the baby will be born with a deformity.
A blue moon can make you go into labor early (watch out tonight ladies!!)
That one I would actually believe because my WHOLE pregnancy, all I wanted was sweet and junk foods. I didn't even really care for chocolate before getting pregnant. Now I MUST have a king sized Butterfinger everyday. And trays of cookies? Psh, these don't last 2 days in my house. lol
The only one I've heard of that hasn't been mentioned is: "Don't go swimming while you're pregnant, because your baby will drown!"
Yeeaah...
BTW, I'm having a boy, and all I crave is fruit and sweet stuff, so that wives tale is pretty inaccurate, methinks.
How about this lovely one from my MIL:
They baby will have the personality of your emotions during pregnancy (so if you're cranky while pregnant, you will have a cranky baby).
Don't you bet she had to mention this to me while I was in my first trimester with horrible morning sicknes and in a horrible mood.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I told my SO the other day that I was growing a Furby in my uterus lol
DS-1/27/04 DS-11/5/12 MC-5/7/14 BFP: 5/27/14