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20 Ways to Tell if You Are Pregnant with a Boy

6. Big appetite

The old story that mums eat more when carrying boys seems to be fact, with a US study reporting that of 244 women tested, on average those with boys on board ate 10% more than those with girls.

In the British Medical Journal, Prof Dimitrios Trichopoulos writes: “Our findings support the hypothesis that women carrying male rather than female embryos may have higher energy requirements.”

7. Keeping it on the downlow

The most popular belief about how you can tell what sex the baby will be is by looking at how you are carrying, with the theory that girls sit higher, and boys hang down the bottom.

Similar to the “where you gain weight” theory, there doesn’t seem to be any good reason – or basis – for this old wives tale.

Professor Steve Robson, the Vice President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, tells The Huffington Post Australia, “It’s clear to say that a child’s genitals have nothing to do with how the woman’s body looks when she is pregnant. The way a woman carries a baby has more to do with the size of the baby – then the belly tends to pivot forward.”

8. The wedding ring spin

Tie your ring to a piece of string and hold it in front of your belly. If it swings backward and forwards, it’s a boy, but if it goes around in circles, it’s a girl. (Though some sites say it’s the other way around! So that just goes to show you how reliable this myth is.)

9. A wee trick

Like the ph of your pool, you can test your pee. Adding Draino (drain cleaner) to your urine supposedly turns it green for a girl and blue for a boy. What if it’s aqua? In fact, the many sites suggesting this method can not agree what colour indicates what result.

Also, VeryWellFamily reports that it is extremely dangerous to mix these two substances as it can cause fumes that are not at all healthy.Loading…

A safer way suggested by Healthy Mummy is to add bicarb to your pee. If it fizzes, it’s a boy.

Not true says Medical News Today: “There is no proof that the sex of an unborn baby has any effect on the pH of a woman’s urine. Also, many other known factors can make a woman’s urine more or less acidic.”

10. Chinese birth chart

Hmmm. Apparently, an ancient Chinese document just requires the Chinese age of the mother and the Chinese month of conception to work out the sex of your child.

But as the mother of twins, one a boy and one a girl, who I guess were conceived in the same month and while I was the same age, this method would have a definite 50% failure rate for me.

11. The key to it all

A bit of a flaw with this method: you can’t do this one if you’ve read this. A key is placed in front of a pregnant woman. If she picks it by the top, fatter bit, instead of by the long narrow bit, it’s a boy. This one definitely veers towards the story-of-an-elderly-married-woman variety.

12. Skinny dads.

There seems to be some merit to this one, a Danish study showed that fathers who put on more weight during their partner’s pregnancy were more likely to have girls.

13. Best foot forward

The 15th-century Distaff Gospels advise that those who walk with their right foot first are expecting a boy. Unsurprisingly, we can’t find any research on this theory.

14. Mother’s Intuition

Guessing the sex of your child, you would expect to get it right 50% of the time. But a New Scientist study has proved that maternal instinct – where the mum-to-be just has a gut feeling – is proved right more often than not, with correct guesses around 70% of the time.

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