Is there an old wives' tale about pregnancy you totally believe?

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Please share!

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Heartburn= girl

Well, I lied. I don’t “totally” believe that. It was true in my experience but I don’t actually think it’s true all the time as I don’t think any of the old wives tales are.

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I ate dates during both my pregnancies and had two due date babies (not induced, naturally went into labor on their due dates).

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Heartburn = hair. I think it's been scientifically proven.

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Anonymous wrote:Heartburn = hair. I think it's been scientifically proven.

The doctors and nurses were talking about this during my c section. It proved true for me for all three kids. And one of the medic team was saying they thought it had been proven.

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Morning sickness early in the pregnancy is a sign that the pregnancy will go to term.

Your cravings and favorite pregnancy foods are going to be your baby's favorites, too.

And yes, heartburn= hair. Mom of 3 and my first baby had me suffering with acid reflux, heartburn and that awful burning in the back of the throats feeling - never had experienced heartburn before this pregnancy. My baby was born with a full head of gorgeous hair - like a doll!
My last 2 were bald and zero heartburn

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I had bad heartburn, my girl twins born with fuzz.

The higher you carry, like basketball = boy; spreadout is girl.

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Anonymous wrote:Heartburn = hair. I think it's been scientifically proven.

Interesting. Never had heat burn but both kids boy/girl had full heads of hair

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Anonymous wrote:Morning sickness early in the pregnancy is a sign that the pregnancy will go to term.

Your cravings and favorite pregnancy foods are going to be your baby's favorites, too.

And yes, heartburn= hair. Mom of 3 and my first baby had me suffering with acid reflux, heartburn and that awful burning in the back of the throats feeling - never had experienced heartburn before this pregnancy. My baby was born with a full head of gorgeous hair - like a doll!
My last 2 were bald and zero heartburn

I craved peanut butter throughout my pregnancy and DS is allergic. He’s also an extremely picky eater who prefers typical kid food. I’m super healthy and didn’t have chicken nuggets, pizza or grilled cheeses while pregnant.

One I think is true is that the first child between every couple looks like the father.

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Anonymous wrote:I had bad heartburn, my girl twins born with fuzz.

The higher you carry, like basketball = boy; spreadout is girl.

I believe this one!

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No heartburn and both kids were born with a head of hair.

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I've never had heartburn and all 4 of my children(boys and girls) had a full head of thick, long hair at birth. I don't believe any of them to be true. I've also never had MS, or nausea, never had a preterm baby.

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I didn’t believe in any of the superstitions or old wives tale. The Chinese birth chart was wrong, all of the tests like the spinning ring and things like that were wrong. But the only one that was totally totally right for me it was terrible heartburn and acid reflux = hair. Baby was born with SO much hair and I was SO acidic during pregnancy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had bad heartburn, my girl twins born with fuzz.

The higher you carry, like basketball = boy; spreadout is girl.

I believe this one!

DP, and I carried all three babies exactly the same (thanks, long torso). One girl, two boys. Interestingly, we didn't know the sex of the first before birth, but the people who guessed boy KNEW it was a boy. Nope!

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from https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/my-body/pregnancy-health/pregnancy-advice-old-wives-vs-science/

Old Wives Tale Or Science?
If you suffer from heartburn during pregnancy, your baby is likely to be born with a full head of hair.
Answer: Science

"Folksy" sounding but true. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore found that when pregnant women reported moderate heartburn, they had hairy newborns 82 percent of the time; the majority of heartburn-free women gave birth to bald babies.

Surprised? So was the study's lead author, Kathleen a. Costigan, R.N., M.P.H., director of the hospital's Fetal Assessment Center. "I had heard this old wives' tale hundreds of times and used to tell my patients it was nonsense," she says. "We undertook this study thinking that we would debunk the myth!" Researchers surmise that higher levels of estrogen and progesterone, the pregnancy hormones that stimulate fetal hair growth, also relax the esophageal sphincter, allowing stomach acid to back up into the esophagus and cause gastric reflux, aka heartburn.