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By Terry Edwards
It seems to happen to anyone who becomes pregnant. Inevitably someone will give you some advice and tell you a pregnancy myth or an old pregnancy wives tale. I'm sure you have heard many of them, right? Let's take a look at some of the most popular pregnancy myths and beliefs and see if we can sort out fact from fiction and discover the real truth.
Isn't it amazing at how everyone seems to know everything there is to know about pregnancy? From curing morning sickness to labor and delivery, everyone and their brother has some kind of advice or cure. Morning sickness is a good place to start. One of the oldest boy or girl pregnancy myth says that if you experience a lot of morning sickness then you will have a baby girl. Of course there is no medical basis for this myth. In fact, I had very little morning sickness with my daughter and later had severe morning sickness with my son!
Heartburn is another area that seems to generate a lot of myths about pregnancy. The most common one being that if you are having a lot of heartburn then you will have a baby with a full head of thick dark hair. You just have to laugh at this. Of course that case of heartburn has nothing to do with your just eating 3 supreme tacos from Taco Bell that you had been craving all day!
Your baby's heart rate is yet another area that produces several pregnancy myths. It is said by some that when you go in for a pregnancy well visit and your doctor listens to your baby's heart, if the heart rate is high then you will be having a girl. If it is low, then it's a boy. I will leave this to your own thinking as to whether this is fact or fiction.
One of my favorite pregnancy wives tales is how you are carrying your baby. You may have heard this one before. This boy or girl pregnancy myth says that if you are carrying your baby low it is a boy. If you are carrying high then it will be a girl. The scariest part of this is that there are people in the world who actually believe this.
Having to listen to these pregnancy myths can be good for a laugh or two, but just don't go out and buy your baby's new clothes based on them. To really get a good idea of whether you are having a baby boy or girl during your pregnancy is through an ultra sound. But even then, there are cases when it could be wrong. The one and only absolute positive way of knowing? When you deliver.
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