i need help with a pregnany question.?

Question

i know we all heard old wise tells...what are some of them....like if your tummy is high your having a girl....or vesa verse...just tell me some old wise tells about prgnancy

Answer 1

Heartburn = lots of hair on the baby

Spicy cravings = boy
Sweet cravings = girl

If you raise your arms above your head the umbilical cord will wrap around the baby.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/superstition.html#pregnancy

If a woman walks over a garden bed or a field within six weeks of having given birth, then nothing will grow on it in the next few years, or everything will perish. (35)

A pregnant woman should never crawl under a coach pole, otherwise she will go over her (expected) time. (179)

If a pregnant woman walks over a grave, her child will die. (293)

If pregnant women go to the place where cloth is being bleached, they will have pale children. (455)

If a woman sticks pins or needles into curtains during the first six weeks after childbirth, her child will have bad teeth. (458)

If a pregnant woman ties a rope instead of a belt around herself, her child will be hanged. (459)

If a pregnant woman walks behind or crosses the path of a poor sinner who is to be put to death, her child will later die the same death. (465)

Women may never be left alone during the first six weeks following childbirth, for the devil then has more power over them. (509)

During the first six weeks following childbirth, mothers may not go to sleep until someone has come to watch the child. If mothers are overcome by sleep, changelings are often laid in the cradle. To prevent this one should lay a pair of men's pants over the cradle. (510)

Neither fire, salt nor bread may be given away from the house of a woman during the first six weeks following childbirth. (538)

A pregnant woman after doing the wash should immediately turn over the tub she used, and she will have an easy delivery. (561)

The first medicine which a woman receives following childbirth should be taken from her husband's spoon; taken thus it will be more effective. (672)

A woman in labor should put on her husband's slippers. (673)

One may not pierce the bread of a pregnant woman with a knife or fork, or else the child's eyes will be poked out. (702)

If he ties her garters, she will give birth easily. (716)

A woman recovering from childbirth may not look out of the window for six weeks, or else every wagon that passes will take a bit of luck with it. (782)

If a woman walks without shoes during the six weeks following childbirth, then her child will take a dangerous fall when it is learning to walk. (797)

A woman may not enter a stranger's house for six weeks following the birth of her child. If she does so, she should first buy something in another village, or she will bring misfortune into the house. (844)

A woman may not draw water from any well for six weeks following the birth of her child, or the well will dry up for seven years. (845)

Answer 2

I believe you are asking for "old wives' tales" - her is one:

Hold a needle and thread over the mother's belly. It it begins swingin up and down he belly it is a boy if it swings side to side it is a girl.

Go figue how THAT could work!!

Answer 3

there is one where you take your wedding ring or a ring you wear all the time and a stand of your hair and put the hair threw the ring and let the ring hang over your hand if it spins in a round circle it hink it means girl in an oblong circle it means boy i think!

Answer 4

Heartburn=baby has alot of hair
If you lift your arms over your head the baby can get strangle by the umbillical cord.

Answer 5

Well, i don't believe too much in those things but i'm having a girl and my stomach is very high and when i was pregnant with my son i carried low.

Answer 6

I think it is old wives tales, like it you have a lot of indigestion, the baby will have a lot of hair.

Peace!

Answer 7

type in old wives tales of pregnancy into the search bar

Answer 8

Heartburn means that your baby has a lot of hair.

Answer 9

if you crave sweets you are going to have a girl.( not true of course)
mommy of four

Answer 10

if you have alot of hartburn then the baby will have alot of hair