Okay, if you have sex more often, you're more likely to have a girl. And the old standbys abouthow NOT to get pregnant - sex on your period is "safe", and the less believable ones like coke douches and such I've only heard about anecdotally, as in, I heard of them as "myths about pregnancy", not as myths about pregnancy, you get the difference?
Woman on top is more likely to have a boy, carrying high is a boy, swinging a pendant over your palm - if the arc is wide it's a boy, if it's more still it's a girl, I think...
I can ask the IndieMoms (http://kvetch.indiebride.com/index.php?t=thread&sub=1&frm_id=38&start=0&rid=59&S=f42c69a7e50fadd08ae39aa979f9ba0a&SQ=a8303821471224a8cba3b7728cbc2e1f) for you, if you like...
This thread has a few: http://kvetch.indiebride.com/index.php?t=msg&th=10501&start=0&rid=715&S=1f2d4516ceda2c53ec294ecc6f69ce02
You'll also want to collect labor induction myths like sex (though apparently this has some basis in fact as the prostaglandins in sperm can help induce contractions?), alcohol, spicy foods, etc.
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Date: 2005-11-09 03:43 pm (UTC)From:Okay, if you have sex more often, you're more likely to have a girl. And the old standbys abouthow NOT to get pregnant - sex on your period is "safe", and the less believable ones like coke douches and such I've only heard about anecdotally, as in, I heard of them as "myths about pregnancy", not as myths about pregnancy, you get the difference?
Woman on top is more likely to have a boy, carrying high is a boy, swinging a pendant over your palm - if the arc is wide it's a boy, if it's more still it's a girl, I think...
I can ask the IndieMoms (http://kvetch.indiebride.com/index.php?t=thread&sub=1&frm_id=38&start=0&rid=59&S=f42c69a7e50fadd08ae39aa979f9ba0a&SQ=a8303821471224a8cba3b7728cbc2e1f) for you, if you like...
This thread has a few: http://kvetch.indiebride.com/index.php?t=msg&th=10501&start=0&rid=715&S=1f2d4516ceda2c53ec294ecc6f69ce02
You'll also want to collect labor induction myths like sex (though apparently this has some basis in fact as the prostaglandins in sperm can help induce contractions?), alcohol, spicy foods, etc.