Conference moira::parenting_v3

    Carrying it high is suppose to be a girl and low is a boy.

	Carrying "in front" is a boy.  Carrying "all the way around" is a girl.

Tracey 

    Morning sickness = girl,  No morning sickness = boy
    
    

    Fast heartbeat = girl, Slow heartbeat = boy

    Hmmm...  I heard it was "in front " = girl, "all around" = boy.

    FWIW, my cousin Joanne carried both her kids the same way -- all
    out in front.  Baby #1 was a girl, Brittany; #2 was a boy, Timothy.
    
    

    
    
    I carried all around (boy) --- From what I've seen (girls) are on the
    high front.  Most of my relatives and friends that had boys also
    carried "just" like me.   
    
    (Quote)::       "EVERYONE IS DIFFERANT"
    

    How about the old ring trick. Take a peice of thread and put it through
    your wedding band or diamond. The pregnant woman lies flat on her back
    and someone holds the ring as still as possible over her belly, if the
    ring turns in a cirle it's supposed to be a boy, if it swwings back and
    forth it's a girl! Ha ha! It went in a circle for me and I had a girl.
    It also proved false for 3 other women i know. How's that for a myth?
    
    They say not too lift your arms high above your head when pregnant
    because the cord can wrap around the baaby's neck.(where do get this
    info anyway?)
    
    Here's a few more:
    
    If you try to get your baby to stand too soon, he will be bow-legged!
    
    If you pick up your baby every time he or she cries, you will spoil
    them. Dr. Brazelton says, you cannot spoil a baby untill they are at
    least 6 months old, spoiling happens by giving the child material
    things. All, children need love and cuddling, regardless if they are
    crying or not.
    
    You can conceive a girl if you drink a cup of black coffee before sex!
    (my OB gave me an article on how this is done, but I don't believe it)  
    
    
    I'm sure there are thousands more of myths like these, none of them
    proved true with the birth of my daughter.

    most of the previous ways to predict the sex of a child are correct
    50% of the time.
    
    :-)
    
    BJ

    
    I carried both my boys high, in front - all the myths missed.
    
    The ring trick predicted girls both times.
    
    My co-workers never allowed me to get things off the top shelf, because
    of the cord-around-the-neck stuff.  Actually, virtually all babies have
    the cord around their necks at some point during gestation.
    
    My doctor predicted a boy the first time, a girl the second, and said
    he was correct about 50% of the time.
    
    I never heard that coffee story before - I am a true addict of coffee,
    and I would be surprised if I did not have a cup just prior to
    conception.  (we always have a cup before bed at night - caffeine
    notwithstanding).  Again, both mine were boys.
    
    There is one myth that I get to add here (everyone else took up the
    rest of those I know) - that is, if you place your hand on your body in
    shock or surprise during pregnancy, then your baby will have a birth
    mark on that part of his/her body.   
    

    
    "if you fall during your pregnancy, you will have a girl"
    
    I never fell...had a boy.
    
    

    
<<    Also,  If you carry high, is it supposed to be a girl or boy?

   Yes!  :-)  :-)
   
   - Tom
   

    
      My sister has a real doozy of kid.  Always fussing and hanging
    and still dos'nt sleep the whole night.  Well,  at one of our family
    get togethers we traced the whole life of the kid back and figured
    out that the reason the kid is so ancy is because she used to get
    poked all the time while she was in the womb.
    
       Hence our family saying about unborn kids :
    
     "if you annoy the kid,  you'll have an annoying kid!" 
    
    I did'nt annoy my kid and she came out as and still is an 
    Angel(well close anyway).
    
    John C.
    

    My grandfather learned a "prediction trick" from a very old man when he
    was young. You try to catch the woman by surprise and say she has
    something on her hand. If she looks at her hand palm up, it will be a
    boy; if she looks at the top of her hand it will be a girl. 
    
    My grandfather hasn't been wrong in about 50 years amongst the family;
    until I came along. I knew he was waiting for the moment to catch me
    and when he suddenly yelled "what's that on your hand?", I just smiled.
    I then made the mistake of telling him my impulse at the time was to go
    top-up, BUT I never stuck my hands out. My grandmother was so excited
    to have a great-granddaughter after 2 great-grandsons she started
    buying girl's clothes. Well, my son never had to wear pink dresses
    and my grandfather will have to think of ways to get trickier to catch
    me with this pregnancy.
    
    Anyone else who has tried to us this method of prediction, is ALWAYS
    wrong. Maybe this old man selected my grandfather for some special
    reason.
    
    Andrea     

    When you're pregnant don't scrub the floors or wash the walls because
    the circular motion of your arms will wrap the cord around the baby's
    neck.
    
    Yes, some people really do believe this!

<    When you're pregnant don't scrub the floors or wash the walls because
<    the circular motion of your arms will wrap the cord around the baby's
<    neck.
    
Gee, if I ever get pregnant again, I think I'll spread this one around;
I hate doing housework!  ;-)

           Carol

    My doctor suggested no stretching or reaching up over my head because
    of the cord wrapping around the babies neck.  Hubby happened to be in
    the room when the doc said this and he right out told hubby his new job
    was housework!!!!  Mom told me not to vacuum because the pushing and
    pulling motion can cause the baby to turn (breech).
    
    Ellen

    
    
    When I was pregnant, my whole pregnancy I vacuumed my house "every day"
    (still do).  I would climb on my bed to tuck the other side of the
    sheets in its place.  You name it, I didn it.  No cord tied.  No breech
    baby either.
    
    
    -Nadine

What about a hot bath?  I read in a book that my dr gave me that you shouldn't
do hot baths or jaccuzzi's.  I love hot baths.  Why would that be a problem?

It sounded like a myth to me.

    Re: .-1  I don't think this is a myth.  I think that sitting in a
    jacuzzi or hot-tub can raise your internal body temperature to a point
    that would be dangerous to a fetus.

	.20 is right.  This is definately NOT a myth.

	If I understand correctly, jacuzzis are the bigger problem because
1) they tend to be hotter 2) you tend to emerse more of yourself and 3) you 
tend to stay in longer.


Tracey
 

    	I also have been told hot baths can sometimes lead to yeast infections.
    Which in my case, happens if I take too many of my much loved bubble
    baths.  
    
    FWIW
    M 

So a 10 minute hot shower shouldn't be a problem?  If the wall paper doesn't
peel off, it's not hot enough for me.

I don't soak in the tub very often, but I do get tempted and I like my baths as
hot as my showers, so I thought I had better check this one out.

    re .15, .16, .17

     Hmmm - Michelle didn't just have the cord wrapped around her neck - she
     was tied, bound, and gagged by the thing.  Do you think my two-week
     nesting frenzy caused her to get tangled ;-)

<   <<< Note 451.23 by WMOIS::E_FINKELSEN "Consistancy's good...Sometimes!" >>>
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< So a 10 minute hot shower shouldn't be a problem?  If the wall paper doesn't
< peel off, it's not hot enough for me.

Glad you asked.  You should probably check with your doctor.

        Carol

    I have a hot tub and am pregnant.  My doctor said I could get in as
    long as the water wasn't above 98 degrees.  Well, since I don't have a
    thermometer in it, I haven't been in it!!  I need to get me one because
    I sure miss it!!
    
    Virginia

re  hot baths

The reason they're not good is because a HOT bath or jacuzzi eventually
raises the mother's internal temperature to 102 F or more, which in turn
raises the baby's temp.  The fetus can't handle this heat, and the result
is brain damage (I think).

The thing is they never knew how long it took to get to this point, so hot
baths/jacuzzis were banned altogether (by most docs).  Recently, the
newspaper ran a story that said a study on this subject found that the
least amount of time it takes for women to reach the high temps is 12
minutes (some women's bodies took up to 30 minutes to get that hot).  So,
the finding from the study was that, to play it safe, any pregnant woman
should spend NO MORE than 10 minutes in a hot bath or jacuzzi.


Marty

    Another myth about pregnancy is that childbirth is hard and painful. 
    Come on ladies, stop your whining it's a breeze.
    
    
    Peace,
    
    Mike

     
    
    
    
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    RE....the Jacuzzi/hot tub inquiries, the technical term is
    "vasal-dialation"  translated means your arteries and veins dialate
    in the heat of hot water causing an increase in your blood pressure,
    and sending much too much blood to the baby.  The primary danger here
    is you becoming light-headed, and of course passing out or slipping,
    and there's always the danger of cerebral (brain) hemorage from the
    increase in blood pressure.  (blood vessles are "thinner" during
    pregnancy, something that frequently causes nosebleeds)
    
    Oh yes, the increase in body temp is a factor, but do realize the
    normal internal temp is usually around 99.8 anyway, it would take more
    than a few minutes in VERY Hot water to affect the baby.
    
    To the woman who won't use her hottub because she doesn't have a
    thermometer, how about using a plain old mercury thermometer, they go
    from 96 to 106?
    
    Lyn