Old wives tales about gender

BreannaaaMarieee · September 2015

I thought it would be interesting to share old wives tales that each of us have heard about finding out the gender! Which ones have you heard?

PeggyOlsonFTW · September 2015

None are almost always right. They all have a 50-50 shot.

AnnikaD20 · September 2015

None of them are almost always right, they are all 50/50.

For my son, I think 7 out of 8 old wives tales methods I looked at predicted girl.
This included: Chinese calendar, duration of morning sickness, heartrate, side placenta implanted on, craving sweet or sour foods, carrying high or low, ring on a string, and acne. The only one that wasn't wrong was the food cravings.

kimmecakes · September 2015

@AnnikaD20 what was ur craving for boy?

AnnikaD20 · September 2015

kimmecakes said:

@AnnikaD20 what was ur craving for boy?

Just because that was the only one that wasn't wrong doesn't make it any more accurate than the rest. It's still 50/50.

The old wives tale is that with girls you crave sweet and with boys your crave sour. My main cravings were hot and sour soup from my favorite Chinese restaurant, citrus, and pickles.

kimmecakes · September 2015

Was just curious, with my boys I craved cheesy, savoury and more dairy, with my girl I was more sweeties and fruits.

cmerribury · September 2015

I'm not aware of too many but have heard that citrus cravings mean a girl. I also had a (distant) Italian relative try to swirl a necklace around my belly the other day...we didn't get too far, probably because of the look on my face. LOL. (P.S. @kimmecakes I craved vinegar and chocolate milk with my son.)

Ready4theParty · September 2015

I'll buy into the citrus for a girl. With DD if it was orange flavored I would eat/drink it. We went through a lot of mandarin oranges and orange sorbet.

Jules08 · September 2015

Ready4theParty said:

I'll buy into the citrus for a girl. With DD if it was orange flavored I would eat/drink it. We went through a lot of mandarin oranges and orange sorbet.

Now I want orange sorbet.

cmerribury · September 2015

@Ready4theParty, and I detested oranges while pregnant with my son, but usually love them. Who knows, though, and orange sorbet does sound fantastic.

Ready4theParty · September 2015

cmerribury said:
@Ready4theParty, and I detested oranges while pregnant with my son, but usually love them. Who knows, though, and orange sorbet does sound fantastic.

Yeah they aren't my go to this time around. Although I can't stand meat, outside of lunch meat. Right now it's melon and cheese, the only consistent things on the menu.

BreannaaaMarieee · September 2015

I crave a little bit of everything ranging from Cherry icees to fried pickles lol

PennyLane20 · September 2015

My aunt recently told me all she craved was citrus during her two pregnancies. She has two girls. Who knows!

AnnikaD20 · September 2015

Well, if craving citrus means girl, then I guess that one didn't work for me either. Cause I craved all the limeade, oranges, and lemon flavored everything with my son.

kimey1 · September 2015

Ive heard of ones where you can tell by the shape of your belly- very round vs. A lil droopy in the lower front.

AnnikaD20 · September 2015

I think old wives tales are good clean fun, but you have to remember that most of them originated in an era where there were no ultrasounds or blood tests and women had nothing to go on besides pure speculation for 9 months. I'm thankful we live in a day and age where it's possible to find out with some actual certainty.

mrstrax · September 2015

cmerribury said:
I'm not aware of too many but have heard that citrus cravings mean a girl. I also had a (distant) Italian relative try to swirl a necklace around my belly the other day...we didn't get too far, probably because of the look on my face. LOL. (P.S. @kimmecakes I craved vinegar and chocolate milk with my son.)

The very thought of OJ made me want to puke the entirety of my pregnancy with DD, which is saying something because I never had any ms, just nausea. Orange/Grapefruit was my only aversion with her.

I did a blog post the night before our anatomy scan of 20 wives tales I found online. The result was 11-9 girl. 55% = Fail.

sarahufl · September 2015

AnnikaD20 said:

I think old wives tales are good clean fun, but you have to remember that most of them originated in an era where there were no ultrasounds or blood tests and women had nothing to go on besides pure speculation for 9 months. I'm thankful we live in a day and age where it's possible to find out with some actual certainty.

I don't think most people put a lot of faith in them......

rebelone · September 2015

Interesting about craving citrus means girl. I drank orange juice all the time when I was pregnant with my now 2 year old girl. Right now I'm craving fruit smoothies and tangy things. Chinese calendar says I'm having a boy. The heartbeat was 162, which would indicate I'm having a girl. We'll see. And yes of course this is just for fun and not meant to be taken seriously. Science wins.

cmerribury · September 2015

I thought of another one this morning, though it's not until later in pregnancy. Something about gaining weight in your hips/butt/thighs meaning a girl, and beachball bumps meaning a boy. But I can say this one did NOT prove true for my first pregnancy.

mrstrax · September 2015

My personal favorite was if you get the pregnancy glow it's a boy, but breakouts etc mean it's a girl - because she steals your beauty for herself. Wow.

cmerribury · September 2015

hahaha, @mrstrax that's a good one! if that's the case i'm on team pink...grrr!

mrstrax · September 2015

cmerribury said:
hahaha, @mrstrax that's a good one! if that's the case i'm on team pink...grrr!

I feel ya. It's like I'm 13 again - at least my acne says so! It'll be interesting to re-do the list and see which ones change with this baby, boy or girl. Unfortunately it looks like this one isn't changing.

RoseShadow873 · September 2015

Here's a big list of them: https://community.babycenter.com/post/a28444349/51_gender_prediction_wives_tales

Most are pretty silly sounding. The mom's intuition one actually probably has something to it though. It's from a real scientific study although the study only said mom's with at least 12 years of education could predict with 71% accuracy. Mom's with less than 12 years had like a 40% or something in that range.

BreannaaaMarieee · September 2015

mrstrax said:
My personal favorite was if you get the pregnancy glow it's a boy, but breakouts etc mean it's a girl - because she steals your beauty for herself. Wow.

I'm hoping for a girl & my face has been breaking out like crazy! Even if it's not true it's still exciting to have hopes for a girl lol

wildtot · September 2015

Has anyone heard of ot done the one with urine and baking soda?

BreannaaaMarieee · September 2015

@Knottie2891384 I've heard about it but still think it's 50/50. It'd be nice if it was pretty accurate

cmerribury · September 2015

Have not heard of it...what exactly happens? (I'm envisioning the volcano project my son worked on...)

BreannaaaMarieee · September 2015

@cmerribury you mix your urine and baking soda together and supposedly if it fizzes you will have a boy and if it doesn't then a girl!

sarahufl · September 2015

BreannaaaMarieee said:

@cmerribury you mix your urine and baking soda together and supposedly if it fizzes you will have a boy and if it doesn't then a girl!

I kind of wanted to do this. I also read one about using Drain-O. H and I decided urinating on Drain-O was not a good way to spend my time.

cmerribury · September 2015

Haha, OK, so slightly less explosive than I thought!

seasidesweete · September 2015

I def craved chocolate and sweets with my DD.
this time I do crave them but also veggies (yay! Want to be healthy this time around!)

As far as the wives tale about heartburn=hair, first time around... That was so true! She had so much hair!

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