Old Wives Tales

I haven't believed any. How you carry, how bad your morning sickness is, peeing in baking soda, on cabbage or whatever other silly methods people have. Of course some people think they are completely right - but they are 50% of the time. That is a pretty good statistic! The one I did do was the ring test. I placed my wedding ring on some yarn and held it over my stomach. Actually DH did it the first time, weeks ago and the ring went in circles: Girl.

I tried again today and it was half circles, half diagonal line. To me that says: Boy.

I also tried holding it over my wrist. In this method you leave it there until it completely stops moving. It supposedly tells you every gender of your kids you will have (these do include miscarriages). I did this twice as well. Circle, line line: Girl, boy, boy. Time two: Line, Line: Boy, Boy.

So really, one way or another this test will be correct. My intuition used to tell me Girl, all the way girl. But I also grew up believing I would never have a boy. So I am sure that helped my influence. Lately, I've been feeling it is a boy. But lately, I am also tired of everyone automatically calling Magoo a girl or pressuring me for a girl. So I have hope it is a boy so everyone else can experience gender disappointment and deserve it. Maybe I actually just don't have any gender intuition at all and it is just swayed by what I am thinking in the moment. We'll find out in T-12 days.