Old Wives Tales

[beefinch]

Chinese chart tells me I'm having a girl this time around.

With DS it was right, but hey, there's a 50/50 chance lol

[twotxmommies]

heart rate was 174 @ 7w6d so according to theory that means girl... under 150 boy / over 150 girl?
my face is breaking out like nothing i have seen before so that would mean girl... girls steal your beauty?
my hair is ratchet, so again should mean girl?


Has anyone tried the baking soda test?

[cnf2013]

Chinese chart says boy and was wrong last time.

Craving more salty things, but I prefer salt and savory over sweet to begin with, so not there.

My nausea has been on and off with dry heaves, same as with DD, so girl I guess.

My hair is not any nicer, neither is my skin, so girl.

I'm moody AF, so girl.

Heart rate points to girl.

No to the ring test.

Ramzi theory says hirl, says the self proclaimed expert in another group.

I have terrible intuition. I think I'm leaning towards girl, but I'm not super sure. I'm getting panorama drawn at 11w and will know sometime in the week or two following.

[bostonbaker]

Chinese gender chart says boy for me.  It said boy for my son and was correct.

NP couldn't tell me the HR from my ultrasound, just that it "looks fast enough that I'm not worried".  With my son his HR was in the 160s which would indicate girl, so obviously that one didn't work for me the first time.

We ask my son if he wants a brother or a sister and he emphatically answers "SISTER!" every time.  But then we ask him if he's having a brother or a sister and he answers "BROTHER!".  IDK if he can actually tell the difference in our questions but he's consistent.  He just turned 2.

I am feeling boy but would be happy to have a girl.

We should find out soon!!  Maybe next week.  We're going to have the OB put the results in an envelope for us, but haven't decided how to do our reveal yet.  It will be just for us and our son, not like a gender reveal party.  Last time we went to a candy store and had the clerk fill a bag for us with blue jelly beans. 

[grumpycat88]

Chinese Gender chart: Girl (was correct with DS)
Sweet vs. salty: Girl
I’m not doing that garlic test.
Morning sickness: Girl
Pregnancy glow: Girl … I look pretty haggard.
Partner’s weight gain: I haven’t noticed.
Moody vs. Mellow: Moody … girl
Not sure how I’m carrying yet.
Too lazy to do the ring test.
Heart Rate: Girl (but it said girl for DS too)

Intuition says girl, but we shall see in November.

[izz67]

Chinese Gender Predictor: boy (wrong with DD)
Morning sickness: Girl (I didn't have it with DD)
Skin/Hair: Girl
Mood: Girl
MHs weight: he's lost weight..boy.
Previous BP: was lower which indicates girl.

[Deleted]

1.Craving salty things: boy- I've craved salty things with both pregnancies, so no clues there.

2.Garlic test- No thanks.

3.No morning sickness: boy- I had way worse morning sickness with DS than DD. Disagree.

4.Clear skin: boy- Pregnancy does wonders for my skin, boy or girl.

5.Partner weight gain- Too soon to tell.

6.Moody: girl- Verrry moody with DS. Just 7-8 months of being pissed off. Unconfirmed.

7-12. TL;DR

Chinese gender predictor: Boy
It predicted both DS and DD would be boys.

[bethkate]

So, just for kicks, as someone who did IVF, how do I use the Chinese predictor? My baby was conceived in July when I was still 33 but was transferred in February when I was 34. lol

[grumpycat88]

Apr 20, 2017 19:08:11 GMT -5 @thatgolfbitch said:

Huh. The heart beat test I looked at said boy for me and the hb was 166. Seems like most of you would say girl?

It's supposed to be at a certain week or something, but the website didn't say which week. Over 140 is girl.

[grumpycat88]

There was a study done that in women who had no sex preference, their intuition was correct 71% for their child's sex. But ya know you start with a 50/50 chance

[laurensc927]

Apr 20, 2017 18:13:18 GMT -5 bethkate said:

So, just for kicks, as someone who did IVF, how do I use the Chinese predictor? My baby was conceived in July when I was still 33 but was transferred in February when I was 34. lol

Interesting I didn't think about that, mine was conceived in June at 34 but not transferred until March at 35. Hmmm.

[cnf2013]

Apr 20, 2017 20:22:39 GMT -5 grumpycat88 said:

There was a study done that in women who had no sex preference, their intuition was correct 71% for their child's sex. But ya know you start with a 50/50 chance

I don't really have a preference. With DD I wanted a girl, but after a high risk pregnancy and early emergency csection I really do not care what this one is. Boy would be nice since we already have a girl, but I'll be equally as happy with either to be honest.

That said, I still have shitty intuition, lol.

[Deleted]

I think I had a dream about a chubby, dark haired baby girl. I say think because I can't quite remember if it was actually a dream or a passing thought if that makes sense.
And I may be projecting. Not really the girl thing, mostly the having a beautiful dark haired child thing. I love my two dirty blondes, but I haven't given up hope to share my hair color with one of my kids.

[bethkate]

Apr 20, 2017 21:14:32 GMT -5 laurensc927 said:

Apr 20, 2017 18:13:18 GMT -5 bethkate said:

So, just for kicks, as someone who did IVF, how do I use the Chinese predictor? My baby was conceived in July when I was still 33 but was transferred in February when I was 34. lol

Interesting I didn't think about that, mine was conceived in June at 34 but not transferred until March at 35. Hmmm.

Weird right? Not that I actually think it predicts anything, but I thought it was kind of funny that I didn't know what to input.

[bethkate]

Apr 20, 2017 20:13:07 GMT -5 grumpycat88 said:

Apr 20, 2017 19:08:11 GMT -5 @thatgolfbitch said:

Huh. The heart beat test I looked at said boy for me and the hb was 166. Seems like most of you would say girl?

It's supposed to be at a certain week or something, but the website didn't say which week. Over 140 is girl.

Yeah, I think the heart rate thing starts later than most of us have been at our u/s (like 2nd tri) because the heart rate increases until like 10-11 weeks or something and then starts to slow down and level off.

[twotxmommies]

Apr 20, 2017 18:13:18 GMT -5 bethkate said:

So, just for kicks, as someone who did IVF, how do I use the Chinese predictor? My baby was conceived in July when I was still 33 but was transferred in February when I was 34. lol

We did IVF also. I have no clue how you would begin to use this chart for IVF. It is suppose to be age and month the egg fertilizes, but that would mean that all of our frozen embryos are the same sex... so that's out.

[twotxmommies]

my gut says girl but my brain says boy

[bethkate]

Apr 21, 2017 10:17:25 GMT -5 twotxmommies said:

Apr 20, 2017 18:13:18 GMT -5 bethkate said:

So, just for kicks, as someone who did IVF, how do I use the Chinese predictor? My baby was conceived in July when I was still 33 but was transferred in February when I was 34. lol

We did IVF also. I have no clue how you would begin to use this chart for IVF. It is suppose to be age and month the egg fertilizes, but that would mean that all of our frozen embryos are the same sex... so that's out.

Good point about the frosties! I hadn't even thought of that.

[RoLoMa]

I did a Chinese chart and when I used conception date it said boy but when I changed to the due date option it said girl. So, there's that.

My skin and hair look a wreck, which is the opposite of last time. So, maybe girl?

Fast heart rate would suggest girl but DS had a pretty fast heart rate as well.

Everyone around me that knows says girl BUT I think they all assume I want a girl because I already have a boy, or that it is preferable that I have one of each. Little do they know I would actually prefer another boy. (for the record, my gut says girl too but I was CERTAIN DS was a girl and well, nope.)

[cnf2013]

RoLoMa my mom says she hopes we have a boy so that we can be done. That really annoys me that people think one boy and one girl immediately makes a complete family. We plan to have more than two regardless of what this baby is, and my mother knows that too.