What Gender is My Baby?

I am currently 7 weeks pregnant as of the time I write this. this is my 11th pregnancy, I have lost 7. This is looking to be my 4th child and not my 8th loss. But this article is not about my losses this is about my successful pregnancies.

I have 1 boy who is 12 and 2 girls who are 2 and 3 so I thought it'd be fun to do my experience with gender-related old wives tales. I also will be writing about the Peekaboo gender test taken at exactly 7 weeks and the results and whether they are accurate.

The following are old wives' takes and my experience whether they are true or not. Remember this is my experience so it may be different for other women.

#1 Chinese gender calender

The Chinese gender calendar is a calendar where you find the age you were when you conceived and the month you conceived and based on that it predicts the baby's gender. For my son, it was hard to see with this one since I was 16 with him and the calendar's youngest age is 18. As for my oldest daughter well it was wrong. it said she would be a boy but well she's not. My youngest daughter is said girl and it was a girl. So it's a 50/50 for me here. my next baby it says will be a boy. Let's hope it is.

#2 Pregnancy acne and the pregnancy glow

The old wives tale says girls will steal your beauty and a boy will make you glow. My experience with this is not like that at all. At the beginning of all my pregnancies, I get a pimple or two, and then I just glow. During this pregnancy, I am glowing a lot more and sooner than before. I didn't see a difference here between my boy and my girls.

#3 Carrying high or low

This wives tale says that if you are carrying high you're having a girl and if you are carrying low it's a boy. For me, this one was pretty accurate. I carried my son very low and my girls very high my middle was carried the highest.

#4 Temperature

This one is one I haven't heard before. If you feel icy and cold it's a boy and hot and sweaty it's a girl. This one also rang true for me so far. (which gives me hope for this baby) my son I wasn't ridiculously cold but I was chilly but with both girls, I was always so hot and sweaty. My best friend on the other hand was hot and sweaty with both her boys also.

#5 Cravings

Salty and sour? It's a boy. sweet things? It's a girl. This isn't right for me. With my son my only cravings were coffee. Sweet creamy coffee. I could have 2 cups tops that's it. With my middle, I had 0 cravings. but my youngest I had a weird craving that I couldn't indulge, raw meat. With this one, I crave sweet and salty.

#6 Morning sickness

This wives tale is pretty well known. Morning sickness means your having a girl and none means a boy. Well, I had no morning sickness until this baby. So it's not true for me at all.

#7 The ring test

This one is a fun one my mom taught me and it's been very accurate for her and me. You put a silver ring on a string and if it swings in a circle it's a boy and back and forth is a girl. My son, it swang in a circle and so did it for this baby. Both girls it swang back and forth. Same for my mom when she did it for my brother and me.

#8 sympathy weight.

If your significant other gains sympathy weight it's a girl. My son and my girls have different dads, my girls' dad is also the dad of this baby. My son's dad did not gain weight at all with him and my daughters' dad didn't gain weight till right before I had our youngest daughter.

I never put a lot of weight into old wives' tales but playing "guess the baby gender" is always fun. Of course, I have 0 patience and will find out very soon. hopefully, My next article will comeback with a very positive peekaboo article and a boy result.