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You Know It's A Girl

How many ways have you heard of to predict the sex of your baby? Do strangers on the street come up to you and speculate about the sex based on how you are carrying, or the condition of your skin? Have you tried the test where you suspend your wedding ring by a thread and see how it spins? Believe it or not, none of these legends has any validity -- not even the rumor of faster heartbeats in boys (or was that girls?). But it can be fun to speculate.

One of the most popular ways to predict the sex of your unborn baby is done with a piece of string and the mother's wedding ring. Have the mother lie down on a relatively flat surface. Place the string through the ring and dangle it over her pregnant stomach. Don't move the string yourself; keep it as still as possible. If the ring moves back and forth, then the baby is a boy. And, if the ring moves in a circular fashion, then paint the nursery pink because the baby's going to be a girl!

Even though the medical world completely "poo poos" the idea, many mothers-to-be predict the sex of their unborn baby by the position it's in. This method can especially be accurate if the mother has been pregnant before.

Babies who lie low inside their mother's womb are thought to be boys. On the other hand, if your baby is positioned high, then it's a girl.

Another homemade way to predict the sex is based on numbers as well. The mother uses her age at the time that the baby was conceived. Then, add the number that correlates to the month the baby was conceived in. That is, January would be 1, February is 2, March is 3, and so on. Add the mother's age to the month. If the resulting total is an even number, then the sex of the unborn baby is a boy. If the total is an uneven number, then the parents should expect a girl.