Whats the Stupidest Old Wives Tale you've heard....or one that turned out to be true for you?

Question

I read one about if your wee is bright yellow or dull yellow can determine what gender baby you are having.
(personally I think it has more to do with how much water you are drinking!)

Also heard that lots of heartburn can mean having a baby with lots of hair. I always thought this was rubbish but then I read a report that used reasearch to determine that there can be a scientific link due to common hormones or something.

So what old wives tales have you heard? What ones do you believe and what ones are just rubbish!

Just some fun trivia, I'm a little bored, lol!!

I read that question about the cats too! Totally agree with you about the friend being a retarded idiot, although I put it a little nicer in my answer, lol!! That prolly why I didn't get best answer!

whats the one about using a piece of your hair around your wedding ring and letting it swing over your belly or wrist?
Which way is it supposed to swing for which sex? I can never remember!

Answer 1

I was working when I was largely pregnant with my son. I was stocking some things on a shelf above my head (lightweight things, of course). An elderly woman stopped me and said "OH HONEY!!! Don't put your arms over your head like that!! You'll wrap the cord around the baby's neck!!" She was seriously in a panic. That one turned out to not be true. I put my hands above my head all the time pregnant with him cuz of my job, and he didn't have the cord wrapped at all.

The heartburn one was true for me, but completely false for my sis in law. She had horrid heartburn, enough that she had to have a prescription so she wouldn't have esophogeal damage, and both of her children were bald as cue balls.

Answer 2

I had heartburn a lot and the midwife told me that was the only old wives tale that was true every time...and my baby was the hairiest one you ever saw!
On here one day, a girl said that if you pull down th lower lid of your left eye and there was a V shaped vein there...then you were having a girl..well I know I am having a girl and I had this vein! Weird. EDIT The cat thing sounds like a variation of cats "stealing a babies breath" which really is common sense...you dont want the cat sitting on a sleeping baby they do suffocate them....thats what cat nets are for.

Answer 3

People say it is a myth when it comes to the heartbeat rate but i know that it is true well it was for me and so many others that i know.
Anything high like 140-160 will be a girl, anything lower will be a boy so i knew i was having a boy before the ultrasound said.

I also have heard that about the heartburn and the lots of hair and that proved true for me.

Also i have heard that if you hate anyone while your pregnant that is who your kid will look like.

I have heard that if you stare at the moon while pregnant then your child will have mental problems and if you steal anything while your pregnant then your kid will grow up to be a thief.

Answer 4

The one with the heartburn and the hair turned out to be true. I had terrible heartburn and my girl had a head full of hair and also hairy ears...freaky...but luckily the hair on the ears are gone now.
There was also this tale that when you crave sweets you will have a girl and if you crave sour foods you'll have a boy. Didn't help me, I craved everything sweet and sour and a lot of it and all covered with gravy and whipped cream.... (having a hard time now losing all that weight though...)

Answer 5

I am full of old wives tales!!

I agree with you on the first one!! I drink heaps of water, therefore I pee lighter.

Heartburn - I have to say this was true for me. My boys were born with heaps of hair!! They looked like apes! I suffered terribly from heart burn.

If you get moody during pregnancy you are more likely to have a girl. This is because all women are moody, and when carrying a girl you become doubly moody!
- Seriously this must have been started by a man!!!

Ask the mum-to-be to show you her hands. If she shows them palms up, it's a girl; palms down, a boy.
- Right??

Pregnant woman shouldn't take baths
-Ewwwwwwwww

You have to drink heaps of water or the baby will get dirty.
-Yeah right.

A friend of my mother's told me to urinate in a glass or jar with a tablespoon of Drain-o in it. If the mixture was green, it meant a girl; if the mixture turned blue, it was a boy.
- Again ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


I swear some people were on drugs when they thought of these!!

I forgot my favourites:
If a mother to-be falls over her own feet, it's a boy. If she is graceful it's a girl.
= To bad if she was born a klutz!!

If a mother is thrown a baby shower by her in-laws it is a girl, if it is thrown by her family a boy.
- Huh???

Answer 6

The ring or the pendant (could be anything I've heard) is a fun one. You tap it 3 times on the tummy, liftng it each time, then after the third tap and lift you watch it. Back and fourth means boy, circle means girl. If it stops then goes the other way or does it again it means twins.

Answer 7

Well if you want pregnancy trivia, my mother in law came over to visit when I was pregnant and she took one look at a wooden carving in my living room and freaked out!!! She said, if you look at ugly things when you're pregnant, you will have an ugly baby! Well I got rid of it in a hurry and I still can't watch horror movies, even though my last baby is 12 now!
Another one that I find coming true over and over is what goes around comes around, so I'm trying to be a lot nicer to people, not because I'm good, because I want nice things to happen to me. I got it all figured out. Ha.

Answer 8

The one about jumping backwards after sex keeping you from getting pregnant has to be the stupidest d@mn wives tale I've ever heard. What idiot came up with that crap?

Answer 9

MY MOM SCOLDED ME FOR THAT!
Putting my arms above my head and risking strangling my own baby!

What about staying away from wild animals, lest your baby be half animal (IE: you see a wolf, the baby would be half wolf)

Answer 10

somebody posted on here last week that a friend told her she should get rid of her cats because cats will try and steal milk out of a babies mouth. i responded rather harshly by telling her whoever told her that was a "complete and utter retarded idiot". i ended up getting best answer.