What is old wife tale method of gender prediction? It’s basically just a collection of folklore passed down from generation to generation while distorted and amended. They are not particularly accurate. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I went to the doctor’s office and one of the patients was the old lady who said that I will give birth to a boy because of the way I was carrying. That is an example of old wife tale, which obviously was wrong, because I gave birth to a baby girl.
It does not mean that all wife tales are wrong. There could be some that are relatively accurate. Take a look at some of Old Wife Tales here.
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This is my second pregnancy. My first go round was so easy. No sickness maybe a little queezy in the late afternoon for a few days but nothing major and I didn’t really begin to show until late 7th 8th month. I looked very pretty in my opinion to be pregnant and I found that I was going to have a little boy and did so. This time I’m nine weeks. My hair’s awful all the time, I don’t feel like getting dressed up, I’m sick all day long, literally, I feel as if I’m as big as a house already, have had bad cramps, little bleeding, you name it, I’ve had it or probably will have it…It’s a toss up because I’m not far enought along to find out the gender yet. But I want a little girl but something says inside that it’s a little boy…..What do you think..Oh and the whole heart rate of the baby gender predictor….My little boy’s heartrate was very normal and a perfect 160….even though I’d been told he was a boy, all of my nurses belived he was actually a girl..so the whole heartrate thing is a 50/50 to me….Any advce?
I have heard people say that boys cause more trouble as far as pregnancy side effects. I don’t know if I believe that or not. I had a baby girl 5 weeks ago and my pregnancy was a blessing, so easy. To look at this from scientific point of view, boys can potentially cause more side effects because their hormones are different from mother’s. So if your body is not happy with “foreign” object it might get upset and cause you discomfort. But again, this is just speculation on my part. You still have 50/50 chance!