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One of the things that many expectant mothers like to do is try to guess the gender of their baby before it is born or before they find out via ultrasound. When I was pregnant with Patrick I remember, just for the fun of it, taking several online quizzes that could determine the gender of your baby. Most of them were using old wives’ tales, such as if the maternal grandmother’s hair is gray, the baby is a boy and so on. The other popular method for determining gender was through an ancient Chinese gender chart. Well, according to all those old wives’ tales, Patrick should have been a girl! The only thing that pointed to him being a boy was the Chinese gender chart. According to an online survey, many people try to pick the gender of their baby using this ancient Chinese chart, though according to another survey, it only had a 60% accuracy! I’m not a superstitious person and I don’t believe any of the old wives’ tales. Almost all of them have been proven false! Even things like determining gender of the baby by the way you carry (high or low) has been scientifically proven to be inaccurate. I don’t know why people even bother to remember these silly tales anymore… What’s even more funny is that people can’t even agree on what certain “signs” are suppose to tell you. If you look up info on taking the draino test to find the gender of your baby, you will read conflicting reports on which color indicates what gender. Some sites said blue shows you’re having a girl, but others said blue shows you’re having a boy. Some didn’t even mention the color blue! Likewise, if you dangle a string over your stomach, it can either swing in a circle or swing back and forth. One way should tell you you’re having a girl, and the other way a boy. However, some sites said for a boy it would swing in a circle, and others said it would go back and forth. Which is it? The reality is that it’s neither! Does anyone honestly think that a needle on a thread can really tell you what the gender of your baby is?

In case you’re wondering, not that it really gives any meaningful insight, I did take the same quizzes again with this pregnancy. One site that determined gender using old wives tales told me that I’m 100% likely to have a girl. The Chinese gender selection chart also said I would be having a girl, based solely on my age and the month of conception. I’m almost inclined to think the baby might be a boy, just to prove all these crazy methods of figuring out the gender wrong! I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!