What Will It Bee?

After being flooded with gender questions and people asking me what I thought it was I decided to do a little experiment.  I decided to test the old wives tales and gender charts and find out what they all say my baby will be.  My friend Jess over at His Plan, Not Ours did something like this when she was pregnant with her first child.  It was really cool to see all the different philosophies and ideas about gender prediction.

1. Chinese Gender Chart
Legend says that the gender chart is more than 700 years old and was discovered in a royal tomb. It predicts your baby's sex based on your Chinese lunar age at the time you got pregnant and the Chinese lunar month in which you conceived. I went to babycenter.com to calculate my lunar age and conception date.

We're Having a GIRL!!!

2.  Heart Skips A Beat
According to the the wives of old, I can tell if the baby is a girl or boy by the heart rate.  140+ beats per minute for a girl and below 140 beats per minute for a boy.  So far, my baby's heart rate has stayed consistently around 160 beats per minute = Tutus and Tiaras!

3.  Ring Fling
I am supposed to take off my wedding band and hang it from a string over my belly.  If the ring swings in a circle it's a boy, if it goes back and forth its a girl.  The ONE RING said = It's a GIRL!

A very difficult photo to take of yourself...
I was contorting my body all crazy-like to get the shot!

4.  Mayan Prediction
Aside from the end of the Earth on David's birthday, the Mayans also had a way of predicting gender.  They believe that you can take the age you were when you conceived and the year that you conceived you can tell if it's blue or pink.  If your age and year are both even or odd numbers, it's a girl.  But if one is even and the other is odd, then it's a boy.  So, I was 26 years old in 2012 when I conceived = A GIRL!


5.  High or Low?
An old wives tale is if I'm carrying high or low.  Since my bump isn't huge yet, I'll just assume since I have a high uterus that means I'm carrying high.  So.... Bump is UP= Break out the Pink!

photo from lifeinthesetimesblog.wordpress.com

6.  The Key to the Mystery
I placed a key in front of David and asked him to pick it up.  If he picked it up from the skinny end, we're having a girl.  If he picked it up from the round end, a boy.  He reached for the round end=  BOY!

7.  Pimple Predictor
If my face is more clear and zit free during pregnancy I am having a boy.  If it's covered with bumps and looks like the Appalachian mountain range, a girl.  Supposedly the girl is stealing my beauty and that's why she can give moms-to-be acne.  Not only am I forming a bump in my belly, my face is covered in them = A Girl!

8.  Morning Glory?
If you were sick like a dog during your first trimester, baby girl it is!  If you had little to no morning sickness during your first trimester, you've got a boy!  I really don't know how to answer this one.  I felt bad and it definitely interrupted my eating habits a lot, but I never threw up.  And I've heard so many horror stories from mothers everywhere about not being able to eat anything or throwing up all day long.  So... I guess I felt bad enough that I know I had morning sickness = Girl???

photo from firsttimemamatobe.blogspot.com

So obviously the old wives are leaning heavily towards a girl.  Guess we need to start saving for a big wedding, huh?  What do you think it is?!  Remember to vote on our blog before Oct. 30!