Another Old Wives Tale for Predicting Baby’s Sex?
Posted by Cottontimer on 01 May 2008 | Tagged as: Food, Health, Motherhood
1. Women who eat more calories around the time of conception tend to have sons.
As well as consuming more calories, women who had sons were more likely to have eaten a higher quantity and wider range of nutrients, including potassium, calcium and vitamins C, E and B12. There was also a strong correlation between women eating breakfast cereals and producing sons.
via Think Gene
2. “To calculate the calories you need to maintain your weight, multiply your weight by ten.”
~Submitted to Rules of Thumb by: Dr. Robin Kanarek, in Tufts University Diet Nutrition Letter
Putting the two together, it’s quite likely that #2 may be a boy (even thought the ultrasound indicated a girl).
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Is the bugger active? In our family, rough-housing in the womb was a masculine trait,
mdmhvonpa, This one is way more active than Stephen was. hmm
I seldom eat breakfast, and while I dutifully ate my breakfast *while* pregnant, it certainly wasn’t part of my daily routine prior to conception. I’m also a string bean. I have 3 boys.
So much for their study
Deb, Darn you for being an exception to the study!
Does this count? I ate lots too but with morning sickness right to the day I was due for my C-section, whatever went down the throat came up the same way too in no time.
I have a son.
Oopsie! I read too quickly so please scratch my earlier comment. *blush* I used to eat like a bird unless we’re talking dessert.