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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

No Mention of That Ring on a String Business

How apropos.

The New York Times today in its Health section has published one of their "Claim" articles about pregnancy and predicting the sex based on how the mother is carrying. I never held much truck with this and it seems now (gauging from both pregnancies) that I actually don't carry in a way that lends itself to interpretation. There is plenty of insight offered for babies that are "high" or "low" or "stick straight out" or are "wide" but I've never been offered a gender interpretation for "enormous wall of child."

Interesting, though, are the findings that opinions based on the way women are carrying are completely random, while predictions that women have based on their dreams are more accurate.

Sourpuss that I am, I rely on science for my information, since I wouldn't study my dreams to figure out what shoes to wear.

posted by Elise at 11:02 AM

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3 Comments:

Anonymous said...

During both of my pregnancies, I had dreams about girl babies, never about boys, and both babies were in fact girls. (We didn't find out ahead of time.)

1/03/2007 9:27 AM

Anonymous said...

I delivered my youngest daughter on Jan.2 - every nurse wanted a boy baby because they already had 4 baby girls. A nurse who knew me said I was carrying like I did for my son, so they all thought it was a boy - SURPRISE! Katie was born at 9lbs. 2 oz. Judy

1/04/2007 11:15 AM

Elise said...

This January 2nd you had your daughter? Congratulations and cheers are in order.

1/05/2007 4:41 AM

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