of a baby's gender and hubby's size...
I was having a conversation with a couple of ladies from my department and our department admin the other day and the subject of my baby’s gender came into the topic. They were telling me all these oldwives tales about signs on the baby’s gender.
Then remembered those conversations that I have with those older operators. I used to work as the equipment engineer in the factory production area where most of the operators were ladies. As one would guess, due to my charms *ahem* I get along with most of the operators fairly well. History have taught us well most, if not all wisdoms in the world comes out from the mouths of old ladies in between their free time. Therefore, due to my time spent with this age group of demography, was inevitably schooled on these old wives wisdoms.
From what I know there are various ways of determining the gender of the baby by evaluating a few conditions:
1. the tummy shape method: according to the method, the shape of the mommy’s tummy can be tell if the baby will be a boy or a girl. If the shape is round, then this age old wisdom states that the baby will be a girl, but if the shape is slightly pointed to the front (cone shaped), then the baby will be boy.
2. the face method: then there is this other method that suggest that if the mother’s faceis obnoxiously ugly breaks out a lot and all puffed up, then the baby will most probably be a boy but if the mother’s face did not change (still look the same as before pregnant), then the odds are that the baby will be a girl.
3. the look from behind method: there is this other method that says that if you look at the mother from behind, you can basically figure out if she is carrying a boy or a girl. The method states that if the shape of her body does not look like she is pregnant i.e., still curvy etc., then most probably she is carrying a boy and if the from a quick glance, the shape does tells you that she is pregnant, then she might be carrying a girl.
4. then there are those other methods that are a bit more vague, like the baby’s kicking style etc.
Having said all those, I remembered this one conversation I had during lunch with a few female ex-colleagues quite a while ago (before wifey got pregnant). According to one of them, the gender of the baby can be influenced by the husband’s pee pee. The basis of the theory is that the little swimmers that carry the female gene can swim longer distance but is slower while the male swimmers can swim faster but are lazier (therefore don’t swim as far). So the deduction from this is that if the hubby got a long peepee, then the male swimmers will win as they are faster, but if the hubby got a short peepee, then the female swimmers will win because they can swim longer distance.
But I guess I have proven this theory wrong by having a baby girl right? ;)
but all in all I think these are all based on the individual’s experiences and there is no real conclusive evidence to prove if the methods are true or not. For us I think, it really does not matter much, as we do not have a strong preferance for either boy or girl as long as she grows up to bea successful multi trillionaire and lavish her parents with all her riches healthy and happy.
Then remembered those conversations that I have with those older operators. I used to work as the equipment engineer in the factory production area where most of the operators were ladies. As one would guess, due to my charms *ahem* I get along with most of the operators fairly well. History have taught us well most, if not all wisdoms in the world comes out from the mouths of old ladies in between their free time. Therefore, due to my time spent with this age group of demography, was inevitably schooled on these old wives wisdoms.
From what I know there are various ways of determining the gender of the baby by evaluating a few conditions:
1. the tummy shape method: according to the method, the shape of the mommy’s tummy can be tell if the baby will be a boy or a girl. If the shape is round, then this age old wisdom states that the baby will be a girl, but if the shape is slightly pointed to the front (cone shaped), then the baby will be boy.
2. the face method: then there is this other method that suggest that if the mother’s face
3. the look from behind method: there is this other method that says that if you look at the mother from behind, you can basically figure out if she is carrying a boy or a girl. The method states that if the shape of her body does not look like she is pregnant i.e., still curvy etc., then most probably she is carrying a boy and if the from a quick glance, the shape does tells you that she is pregnant, then she might be carrying a girl.
4. then there are those other methods that are a bit more vague, like the baby’s kicking style etc.
Having said all those, I remembered this one conversation I had during lunch with a few female ex-colleagues quite a while ago (before wifey got pregnant). According to one of them, the gender of the baby can be influenced by the husband’s pee pee. The basis of the theory is that the little swimmers that carry the female gene can swim longer distance but is slower while the male swimmers can swim faster but are lazier (therefore don’t swim as far). So the deduction from this is that if the hubby got a long peepee, then the male swimmers will win as they are faster, but if the hubby got a short peepee, then the female swimmers will win because they can swim longer distance.
But I guess I have proven this theory wrong by having a baby girl right? ;)
but all in all I think these are all based on the individual’s experiences and there is no real conclusive evidence to prove if the methods are true or not. For us I think, it really does not matter much, as we do not have a strong preferance for either boy or girl as long as she grows up to be
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