ObGyn Reviews 7 Old Wives Tales with FACTS

[@MamaDoctorJones]

What other old wives tales / urban legends should we dive into the science about?!

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

That eating spicy food will cause you to go into labor lol.

[@merribethsartors7393]

I am 21 weeks pregnant with my rainbow baby and my husband and I are team green (wanting to be surprised at birth) so we have heard it all. Haha Cravings, shape of tummy, heart rate, the different calendars, holding wedding ring over tummy to see what direction it swings… we have heard them all.

[@000snow000]

Can you review the show Sex Education?

[@RamoPare]

Predicting gender by mixing urine with bolied cabbage water - the water is supposed to change colour depending on the gender

[@janellemiller1195]

If you sleep on your stomach you will restrict your baby growth or cut off their oxygen.

[@CB-sr8ee]

The statement, “Oh you look tired, the girl is stealing all of your beauty…” may not accurately predict the sex of your baby, but it often predicts that the person you’re talking to is an a-hole.

[@Beary_fun_10]

I would be very offended if someone said that to me lol like are you trynna say something?! You trying to catch these hands?!?

[@Ocelot80524]

10/10 if someone looks tired it means stfu unless you wanna offer them snacks or something lmao, pregnant or otherwise hahaha

[@Raztiana]

Unless you are offering to cook for them and do the dishes, then don't tell someone pregnant, that they look tired. That's being an idiot. And if they've given birth it means: I'm going to take care of your baby, while you take a shower, where you can actually wash your hair.

[@TheDecoCottage]

100%!

[@KittyKatRiot]

🤣

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

My wife was convinced that one of our twins was a boy and the other was a girl because one of them was so much more active and aggressive, sometimes kicking the other across her womb. She literally once felt one of them kick and then felt the other one get knocked against the opposite side of her abdomen. She said, out loud, "Baby A, don't kick your sister!" She wanted to be surprised about their sex. I didn't. So I already knew they were both girls. I just quietly chuckled to myself. Their personalities haven't changed in the 10 years since. The one who did that kicking is now a great soccer player. Scored 2 goals a few days ago. Her sister does dance. (Come to think of it, they were kicking each other a few hours ago...)

[@mayachu_draws]

i love how you said they were kicking each other a few hours ago! that made me laugh. It seems like you really love them a lot, the way you talk about them:)

[@daylightbright7675]

When your mom was already breaking up fights before you were even born 😅

[@Tiredofinjustice1]

I have twin girls and one of them was always getting on her sister taking most of my belly space and I could feel it. When they were born, the quiet one has her ears folded and her foot rotated to the inside due to being squeezed all the time. Now they are 18 months old and the the first baby still wants to have all of me and doesn’t let her sister sit in my lap 😄

[@shaudajohnson4356]

😁

[@greenflower2919]

😁😁😁

[@Lottie842]

My mom used to teach 6th grade science. Every year, when she was teaching about moon phases, she would have her students figure out what the moon phase was on the day they were born, and then tally up the results to see if there was any truth to the full moon theory. She did this for at least ten years, and taught 6 classes a day with about 30 students in each class. The students were always spread evenly across the moon phases. For some reason, my mom took great delight in proving the full moon theory wrong. 😂

[@IAmAnAnne]

You brought a big vicarious smile of satisfaction to my face. “Oh! Look at this even distribution, *again*!”

[@BVBGirl-3313]

Whats most likely happening is people who are born on full moons are just very vocal they were born during one and logic leaps 🤣 I mean I rarely hear people bragging...yeah I was born during a waxing crecent 🤣 ... I mean I was born during a full moon but I felt it was rare lolz, moons are only full once a month thats alot of days its not full odds of people being born not during a full moon is higher

[@jaciestrong5196]

To be fair, her study doesn’t account for induction of labor/scheduled c-sections or how long the labor lasts. If a woman is in labor for 36 hours it may be in a different phase at that point. The full moon theory only talks about women going into labor naturally. As a labor and delivery nurse I will die on this hill forever like she says 😂😂

[@Imjustacatlady]

Your mom sounds amazing lol.

[@marylyn5965]

Now look at the lunar phase of the natal chart of the mother, a transit chart for the mother on the day of birth, and the progressed Moon aspects to the natal Moon in the mother's progressed chart. You can also look at Mars transits and Mars progressions. Mars rules bleeding in Astrology. The Moon rules the uterus and fluids. It's not as simple as looking for a full Moon in a natal chart of a child. You need to look at the mother's natal, transit and progressed chart as well.

[@hiccuphufflepuff176]

"Beauty is subjective... Skunks are ugly." Well, point demonstrated, I guess. lol Have you ever seen a baby skunk? They're adorable, just don't scare them.

[@annataymond9529]

Skunks are kinda scary, with the teeth and claws and spraying obviously, but I wouldn’t call them ugly. They kinda have kitten faces.

[@IAmAnAnne]

Do baby skunks spray?

[@melissablais6030]

Skunks are adorable....I just don't want to get too close to them lol

[@annataymond9529]

@@IAmAnAnne they’re not like, born with the ability, but they can before they’re full grown, I think when they’re like a few months old they can

[@hiccuphufflepuff176]

@@annataymond9529 I've heard they have to learn how to control it and can spray by accident when they're young.

[@leeannapugh8073]

My mom had horrific heartburn with me throughout her pregnancy and when we left the hospital, I had pigtails! My first haircut was at 3 weeks old because it kept getting in my mouth! 🤣

[@blacksheepk]

😂

[@threeoftrees9286]

My favorite old wives tales in parenting and pregnancy is how many people have told me to drink whiskey in pregnancy or give my newborn/very young child whiskey. WHO DID WHISKEY COMPANIES PAY FOR THIS

[@AirQuotes]

I was given whiskey as a baby in the 90s Maybe that's why I like it so much now. Definitely don't give it to kids though the past was nuts

[@Veeena]

Whattt???? What's wrong with people

[@threeoftrees9286]

@@AirQuotes I didn't think I had but my mom recommends I give my newborn or toddler whiskey like at least once a month. Oh hes waking up a lot? Whiskey. Oh shes got a cough? Definitely whiskey, alcohol helps that's why it's in cough meds. BUT NOT IN CHILDS COUGH MEDS 😬

[@alicewest586]

My grandmother was a NICU nurse and I remember my parents talking about doing this to my brother and I (when we were older) and smacked my dad in the back of the head.

[@maquenzieberriz4032]

I always heard that putting some whisky on your finger and rubbing it on a teething baby’s gums will help the pain of teething

[@petermj]

my mom has told me that your baby looks like whoever annoyed you the most while you were pregnant and quote “that’s why you look like your dad” 😂😂😂

[@BeckyA59]

Omg that's too funny!

[@hekkoCZ]

I sense a lot of possible correlation without causality in that one! :D

[@jordankapral]

Lmao my daughter is a clone of me... what does that mean 🤔🤣

[@marissaghost]

@@jordankapral that self hatred must be strong 😂

[@jordankapral]

@@marissaghost 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@FunkiFungi42]

Some of these old wives tales can be really damaging. After I miscarried, I had a coworker essentially blame me and say "I told you so" because I was still lifting boxes and putting my hands above my head at work, and they had warned me not to. That was devastating in my emotional state. I can now look back and know that my pregnancy was technically over by the time I found out about it. The OB had me wait 4 weeks to see them after I found out, estimating it would be at 10 weeks by then. There was only 5-6 weeks of fetal development, and no heartbeat. I couldn't have done anything.

[@leonamay8776]

I'm really sorry this happened to you. It really sounds like a really convenient way of blaming women for things they have no control over (like many cases of miscarriage). And especially women that couldn't afford hired help and/or need to work...

[@saraquill]

Did anyone punch the coworker?

[@crystallong9625]

I’m so sorry for the loss of your baby. You will be in my prayers for the remainder of my life, mother to mother in loss.

[@charlieemily7319]

I request permission to cover said coworkers floors in legos.

[@crystallong9625]

@@charlieemily7319 I will be glad to assist you!!

[@marvolom787]

My favourite myth is "bad eyes" - people belived that strangers can curse their babies by just looking at them. It actually might saved thousands of lives, because not letting strangers see your newborn prevented whatever bacteria/viruses/fungi they were carrying from spreading on said newborn (and it's underdeveloped immune system).

[@laurao3274]

In English, that is usually called the "evil eye".

[@solikehimanshi8867]

This is true actually . Usually it doesn't happen with every stranger. It doesn't happens in city . But people with extreme negative ( jealousy ) for the family or baby . That causes Evil Eye. It happens sometimes . .It might be superstition. But I have seen things happening. So.

[@quillmorningstar8713]

@@solikehimanshi8867 I wonder if wearing evil eyes would prevent the effects of an "Evil Eye Curse" 🤔

[@angelicakoutsouridakis5816]

In Greece we just call it ”the eye” and everyone knows it’s the ”evil eye”. It’s like when our beighbour said our bunnies were cute and the next day all 20 bunnies had died for no reason. But it’s not about the eye, it has to do with negative energies.

[@deulalune]

In Algeria we call it “Crows eye” but it’s not limited to babies.

[@heysamanthajade]

I had NEVER had heartburn in my life until I was pregnant. I gave birth to a really hairy baby 😂. Happy to hear I’m not completely crazy in thinking there was so correlation. 😁

[@rarceliarys8733]

Oh my god same!! LOL the heart burn is real everyone would always tell me that it meant that my baby would be born with tons of hair and I was like yeah ok LOL but it’s true my baby girl was born with a lot of hair 🤭 now it’s long and curly at just 5 months 💛

[@suziecarr1566]

Hard a bald kid and horrible heartburn

[@MuffinBlubb]

I had severe heartburn in both my pregnancys and both children had full hair xD

[@hunterG60k]

I think a lot of these old wives tales sadly come from wanting to blame the mother when there's an undesirable outcome 🙁

[@hekkoCZ]

Or maybe from the other side - from trying to get more control. You can't really control a pregnancy, but you can stop from reaching above your head. Similarly you can't control a thunderstorm, but you can light a candle (in my country there was a tradition of lighting a special "thunder" candle to ward the house from being hit by a lightning; it didn't work but it gave people an illusion of doing something). I think a lot of superstitions come from trying to seize control over things people in the past didn't really understand, especially if they could harm them.

[@shannonforsberg4118]

That's what I said!

[@YouKnowMeDuh]

If it's not blaming the mother, it's blaming _something._ Possibly because people don't like being ignorant. In the absence of modern medicine, there's a LOT that people didn't understand and needed an explanation for. Technically, we're the same today even with modern medicine. Lots of us are looking for answers and there are plenty of people willing to either fabricate them or assert an explanation without realizing the flaws in their judgement.

[@TrueOpinion99]

I was waiting for a "bUt ThE MiSoGyNy!" comment to pop up.

[@FC-hj9ub]

Of course. Life was horrible for women. As if it's not bad enough now.

[@hatvielehobbies]

The full moon thing is probably all about realisation. It is easier to remember a full moon during any events than other moons. That leads to myths about everything weird/significant happening more often on full moons.

[@abigailscott6473]

There was a podcast episode by Adam Rodman that touched on this actually. His podcast is "Bedside Rounds," and I'd highly recommend!

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

Yep. According to every Emergency department staff member, psych ward staff member, the police, etc EVERYONE is convinced the full moon brings out the weird, wild and mentally ill... it's confirmation bias and selective memory in full force, just like the idea that you should never say the q word (quiet) on a ward because then everything will kick off. LOL

[@Nicooriia]

I just thought it was because of all the myths, symbolism and association with the moon or moon deities symbolizing fertility and good harvest, so any moon worship, stories and folk tales would be passed down, but I can also see how full moons are much more memorable than crescent moons or new moon or half-moon or what have you xD

[@sharondreisbach4445]

While stationed in Hawaii I heard of a tradition of a pregnant woman NOT being allowed to wear a closed or circular lei as there is a superstition that if a closed Lei is worn the baby will be strangled by the umbilical cord. So the lei would be worn with the ends dangling..not tied in a circle. Sometimes this will suffice as a pregnancy announcement!

[@diddntuno]

Thats really interesting i love learning things like that. Thanks for sharing

[@countryjewel]

Yup. I thought of it when she mentioned the raising arms wives tale. My husband is Hawaiian and for sake of tradition I followed this.

[@IAmAnAnne]

That’s a really cool pregnancy announcement, way casual, and a fun superstition.

[@EXROBOWIDOW]

When I was at the hospital in labor, one of the nurses told me that it was a full moon, and since nurses believe a full moon causes more cases of labor, many of them call in sick, leaving the facility short staffed. I don't know what's worse-- that the nurses were doing this, or that the one nurse told me, the patient, that they were doing this. I'm glad that place is no longer a hospital.

[@user-yw8sr3uj1w]

That sounds horrible

[@authormomma9542]

My heartburn was out of control! Couldn't even drink water without heartburn, lol. My son was born with a full head of hair. So glad this one is backed up!

[@brianneporchak3023]

"Oh, you're carrying high, you must be having a girl!" Yes, but I'm carrying high because my daughter is breech and folded in half with her head and feet pressing on my lungs. True story...lol

[@amywebb4586]

"No I'm carrying high because I am short and this baby is already 19" and I just started my 8th month."

[@PixieApples]

I don't miss the feeling of a head in my lungs 😂

[@kellieneville2796]

Same, except her twin brother is also chilling with his head low down in my pelvis - so it's hard to breathe AND walk! 😭

[@sierrachantell]

I was carrying high, up until I delivered my little boy! He was where he was supposed to be, I just carry high 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@sierrachantell]

@@kellieneville2796 oh my, I only had troubles breathing not walking too!!!!

[@codsamanta]

I guess eating certain fruits to get one gender or the other only works in The Sims. 😆

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

I told my hubby this one lol, apples for boys and watermelon for girls haha.

[@redzora80]

that what i was thinking to where heraing that

[@codsamanta]

@@RedRoseSeptember22 Yeah, for The Sims 3. I think it's carrots for boys and strawberries for girls in Sims 4, although I never really do that anymore. Super funny though.

[@micheleperkins1956]

Dang, you beat me to it.

[@KittyKatRiot]

I was gonna say this xD

[@ThirstyBacon]

I started watching MDJ back when I got pregnant with my little girl and found out she may not make it. Got me through many bad nights. I now lay here in bed watching MDJ with my happy healthy chatty 5 month old perfect preemie. Much love and happy you got to 1 million. You deserve it!

[@paadoxal]

That's really great! Congrats:)

[@ThirstyBacon]

@@paadoxal thank you so much that means alot to my family and myself.

[@ladybuglover4eva52]

Bless your ❤ heart! Congratulations to you & your healthy baby. It's wonderful to know that MDJ provided another level of support for you 👍🏼

[@Felicat82]

Congratulations on your happy baby! May she have many, many such years ahead of her.

[@paadoxal]

@@ThirstyBacon ❤️❤️

[@felixhenson9926]

Just spitballing here, but when you mentioned that how many of them revolve around the child's sex was down to not having the technology we do now made me think of another potential contributing factor; a baby's sex was more important to people the further back we go - like how parents in many parts of the world would pray for boys and even kill non-male babies. In this scenario where you're more heavily invested in the sex from a personal and cultural standpoint it makes sense that people might come up with all kinds of incidental correlations they said would be predictive.

[@ladybuglover4eva52]

Great point! I hadn't even thought about that, but yes, gender certainly was a big deal

[@beccabb2750]

Non-male babies you mean girls lol

[@MiVidaBellisima]

Especially in working or royal families

[@madhu7983]

Yes exactly this! I can't tell you how many Indian family and friends have wished for me to have a son as if they're asking for me to have the great blessing of having a son. I'm happy with either but it pisses me off that they're implying a daughter wouldn't be as much of a blessing.

[@Lillianbini]

The strangest thing is, that my mother was always able to predict the sex of my siblings children. 13 right guesses from my nephews and nieces alone. When I asked her how she did it, she said that she tell by the look of the belly. Unfortunatly she died before having the chance to predict the sex of my own child. She was amazing :)

[@FaithMcCaffrey]

My mother in law is able to do the same thing, she knew the sex of each 4 of my babies even before the gender reveal scan which I opted to not know as I wanted a surprise. She went out and bought girls clothes and boys clothes for the corresponding babies and we are sat there like mama we don't even know, what if its not a girl/boy and you're gonna be stuck with all these clothes for the wrong gender. She was right every time

[@adjjal]

I've heard it's the way that the belly sits, if it's lower or higher its means girl/boy, (idk which way around it is though.) And also I've heard that if u get real bad morning sickness early on it's more likely to be a girl and no morning sickness = boy but idk if that's true lol

[@bendakstarkiller3407]

@@adjjal I heard boys sit lower then girls, but I just see big belly so idk

[@dorcaswatson4873]

I used to predict the sex of the baby by the brown line that would grow from the navel to the pubes. For me this only happened with the boys. Until one day at work one of the girls had the brown mark on her belly and a hairless chin, the opposite from her first baby which was a girl. I must say that my prediction skills went out of the window when the second baby turned out to be a girl as wel

[@dorcaswatson4873]

PS I have 16 grandchildren and everyone I have predicted correctly and without even seeing the mum

[@eph2vv89only1way]

I remember hearing that doctors of the day blamed the mother being scared by an elephant for John Merrick (aka “The Elephant Man”) being born with Elephant Disease. What a terrible guilt trip to put on an innocent mother who is probably already upset!

[@YouKnowMeDuh]

They blamed the mother of that guy by saying he got elephantiasis because an elephant scared her? This screams African folk doctor...

[@eph2vv89only1way]

@@YouKnowMeDuh ikr

[@wisconsinbelle]

I mean the amount of times the mother is blamed for anything less than a perfect baby was really upsetting.

[@kristin4160]

@grimlock He was from the UK, and it was a captive elephant at a fair. So these were British doctors.

[@eph2vv89only1way]

@@kristin4160 I think it was the times (1800s) more than their nationality

[@minniethepooh9083]

I had no idea that some of these are international, wow😅 Here are some more that i've heard growing up in Bosnia: 1- stepping over cords or hoes(garden ones lol) will cause umbilical cord to wrap around the baby at delivery (so specific😂) 2- cutting you hair while pregnant will make your baby less intelligent 3- petting an animal while pregnant will make your baby hairy (for example if you pet a cat's belly, your baby will have a hairy belly) 4- if you have a specific craving and you cant have it for whatever reason, if you touch your skin anywhere while craving that thing, your baby will be born with a birthmark on that place you touched and it will resemble your craving (shape and/or color wise) 5- if your baby is lying transverse in ur belly - its a girl, if its vertical - a boy 6- if your nipples turn darker during pregnancy - its a boy

[@kataw0404]

That one about the cravings, a friend's mother has the belief about the opposite. If you crave a food and don't get it, you'll have complications and might lose your baby. While she was pregnant with my friend she craved something but refused to eat it since it was expensive and not always yummy. Plus, she didn't believe her mother's superstition. She went into early labor and my friend nearly died. Each pregnancy after that she always caved to her cravings.

[@Mandinobear]

Point 3; my hypothetical baby is going to be a monkey then.. I have a dog and cat I cuddle with every chance I get, and I work in a veterinary clinic.. 😂

[@gowkawitka4293]

Yes, I also noticed that mamy of those tales are international. But I guess many of them came with immigrants from Europe. Maybe in other ethical communities those are different. And actually in Poland we have exactly the same superstitions. Few more of them are 1) Don't wear any necklaces or your baby will be strungled with umbilical cord or 2) When you get burnt (hot water, fire, whatever) or you get scared don't touch any part of your body (or at least not face or any visible part) as your baby will be born with birth mark at this place.

[@vivianenchen5167]

Shit I have had cutted my hair in the pregnancy... I come back to you if my baby will be an idiot! (just joking, don't worry)

[@Cakingit213]

I’ve definitely heard the craving birthmark one before!

[@sarahharker8540]

I never had heartburn until I got pregnant and I was like yes she’s gonna have lots of hair then while I’m delivering the doctor says “you have a bald baby girl!” I was like what?!? All that heartburn for nothing and then she was like “oh never mind she’s just red head” ❤️❤️❤️

[@starrywizdom]

"...my babies looked like there were up in my lungs..." -- that is SO relatable for me! The last two months of pregnancy I felt like I couldn't get my breath because of my lung capacity being restricted...

[@olgapetrova6415]

Me too! I am not very tall, not too short, but I literally couldn't breath normally during any activity, couldn't walk up to 5th floor by stairs without stopping, and it was when covid just began, and my husband even thought that I had covid because I had this dyspnea, and it was just my baby boy kicking my lungs ❤

[@truckdtails6829]

I had 3 girls, each one of my pregnancy were completely different for each of them. First one no one could even tell I was pregnant, I'm tall and the way she was in there had something to do with it. She was my smallest at 8lbs 1oz. Was told during my second I shouldn't be working I will hurt the baby and it would be small. 8lbs 9 oz, very healthy. Third one told I shouldn't exercise to much,my stomach muscles would crush the baby and restrict it's growth. Also told to put my arms down never reach over your head. I will strangle my baby. She was my biggest 10lbs 3oz. Luckily I only listened to my doctor and none of the unsolicited advice of strangers.

[@crIms0ngen]

Old wives tales, just for fun. The things that irritated me was my former mother-in-law trying to force her own ideas and decisions against my will on my own child. Thankfully, I shut that down. And man, her information on raising babies was so dated and very very wrong.

[@JuMiKu]

Did you also get the idiotic "Well, our kids grew up just fine anyway, so it can't have been that wrong!" Have these people never heard of the little word "despite"?

[@trying2survive602]

@Lisa V Sounds like a Narcissist to me.

[@mellie4174]

@Lisa V total narcissist. Limit contact !

[@annabees]

@@JuMiKu ikr! I usually tell people that I basically raised myself to shut any such comments on a mums.

[@ashleynoble2880]

I said the other day "they make baby books for dads and moms. We need a baby book for grandparents. " it would have stuff like "learning to stfu" and "It's been 30 years SURPRISE things have changed"

[@blazelightshine2311]

"You're not going to ruin it's beauty by looking at a skunk during pregnancy," Well of course not, skunks are adorable! In all seriousness, this was a very interesting video!

[@alisonmartin3856]

Ha ha! I said the exact same thing! :D

[@lisachappell3532]

I said the same thing. Skunks arn't ugly. Unfortunately they do horribly stink especially if you see a dead one on the road. But there cute.

[@tawneeamsberry2326]

I came to the comments to see if anyone else defended the skunks! They’re really cute and just get a bad rep because they can be smelly

[@CirylDrawsStuff]

Yessss I was looking for this comment!

[@krissip1711]

I had very uncomfortable heartburn with both of my pregnancies. My son was born with some hair but nothing luscious. My daughter was born… well, she was bald. My sister-in-law had terrible heartburn as well and her daughter had hair so long they could use ponytail holders at a few days old. It always just gives me a little mama giggle.

[@ArsonBeanTanks]

It is funny!! My daughter was born in May of 2020, and I had HORRIBLE heartburn. My ob told me to take pepcid and I took it twice a day, every day. It wasn't perfect, but it took the edge off. However, around March of that year, zyrtec was recalled and then pepcid couldn't keep up with the new demand and it was impossible to find. It was SO bad, I begged everyone I knew to check their nearby drugstores and pharmacies for it. I told myself that well, at least she's going to have gorgeous hair!! My daughter was bald as a cue ball.

[@Im-Izzy-Moonbow]

Same! My family members were like “oh, Trixie, she’s going to have so much hair!” Yeah, no. She looked like Mr. Clean. My sister-in-law on the other hand had zero heartburn and my niece had a head full of thick, luscious red hair. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@catt1003]

I had horrible heartburn with boy/girl twins. Son had a tiny bit of old man fringe, daughter was completely bald (and stayed that way until she was two).

[@saraquill]

I was bald for the first two years of my life. I saw the heartburn portion of the video and went, “You’re welcome, mom.”

[@Xx.missy93]

“You look tired, the baby is stealing all your beauty” This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard, I like it.

[@kionnakelly2918]

Just had my baby 2 weeks ago and for my entire pregnancy, my chest was on fire from heart burn to the point where it was interfering with my ability to do basic things. The ultrasound tech was actually able to show me his luscious locks while he was still in me and I was about 30 ish weeks pregnant. That still didn't quite prepare me for just how much hair he ended up having. He has a full head of super soft wavy/curly hair. We get compliments on it all the time. I, on the other hand, was bald until about 3. Now I have long, thick, curly hair that I seem to have passed on to my son.

[@kenciabernard4824]

The "looking at an animal/ ugly baby " one hits home. My mom tells this story of when she was pregnant with me, a squirrel jumped out and scared her. She thought I was going to come out looking like one. Thankfully, I didn't lol. She laughs about it but she was genuinely terrified back then.

[@tlunceford77]

😂😂😭

[@cheers106]

🐿 Sandy Cheeks is your spirit animal 🐿

[@kenciabernard4824]

@@cheers106 Haha right!

[@magnolia31611]

When I was pregnant with my first baby, we didn’t find out what we were having. I was so so sick, and miserable the whole time, and all of the older women around me, and even strangers, were convinced I was having a girl because of the old wives tale that girls steal your beauty, and are more likely to make you sick. It was a boy, my second pregnancy was a breeze, and I never got sick once, it was a girl. My third I was sick and miserable again, and it was a boy, and this pregnancy that I’m currently in I’ve had a pretty easy time, only got a little sick in the very beginning, I just found out it’s a girl. I really think for me, my body is just super sensitive to the extra male hormones in my body for my boy pregnancies. My grandmother also got very upset with me in my first pregnancy because I continued my doctor approved work outs, she was sure the cord was going to get wrapped around the baby’s neck. I have heard so many old wives tales since I started having children, I couldn’t even tell you how many. There’s a lot of superstition around postpartum also, my elderly neighbor was very upset when she saw me outside on my front porch with my baby, and said that I wouldn’t heal right, and that women shouldn’t get out of bed for a month after having a baby.

[@DooDooMuffins]

My bestfriend and I had crazy heartburn and both of our babies did indeed have a lot of hair! I'm 17 weeks pregnant now. Having more extreme heart burn than before. I'll try to remember to let ya'll know the hair situation next year when my baby is born 🤣

[@KitKat10281]

Update please? 😂

[@tishaw.8254]

One wives tale for toddler years I always laughed at was “If your toddler bends over with hands on the floor… you’re pregnant” 😂😂 like whaat

[@naesynaenae9385]

Monkey see, monkey do?.

[@KxNOxUTA]

Um ... maybe it was saying that if your toddler is old enough to crawl, then chances are, you're pregnant with the next. Cause ... you know ... old times of no contraceptives and crazy high child mortality rates (and also ofcourse high mortality of women around pregnancy/labour) and so on... .

[@lyss222]

As we were driving to the hospital after my water broke at 2am I looked up in the sky and was like omg, it's a full moon! The old wives tale!! Haha

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

LOL

[@ladybugpiscesktarot]

Awww 😫😩

[@tinaransom2661]

"careful, your baby will turn out looking like who you hate the most when you were pregnant". Although correlation isn't causation, 💯 accurate here.

[@emilybear4832]

My niece looks and acts just like me. Hahaha! 😂

[@laurad3497]

My first looks like me, my second looks like my husband. Both girls 👧

[@jackb1969]

It's very true. I look like my dad😂🤣

[@DANNYTHEFROG123]

My daughter looks like me. According to this she should've looked like the a hole who ditched us.

[@paupancake5530]

MDJ you should watch TaylorR video on her and her husband's infertility journey. Is like 5 episodes but I'm sure you can cut to the medical parts since they include everything from ovulation pills to IVF. I highly recommend it❤️

[@jessicalay6553]

Yes totally! I have followed for years. Taylor does such a good job documenting and I’m so happy for her.

[@Kiki-7]

It would be good to learn more about Taylors journey from a medical standpoint

[@Sovereignty3]

Yes I watch her Channel as well. Some of it will be different in what happens because its a different country.

[@Pink_Aqua]

Yeeesss!! Do it!! I love her and have followed her for 4 ish years

[@cd2290]

Great idea. I have a friend who has been sharing her infertility and rainbow baby journey this month since it is awareness month for this.

[@MMorbid]

My daughter was born on Friday the 13th during a Harvest moon….but I had been induced the day before so there’s that. Also, have you never seen a skunk? They are cute AF! The cutest thing I have seen in my whole life was a mama skunk crossing the road with about 5 babies walking behind her single file. Cars stopped to let them cross. It was so adorable it hurt!

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

People don't generally get the idea that a statistical difference that shows up in a large study doesn't lead to any real difference on an individual level. For MANY differences between the genders the differences between them are smaller than the variation within each gender, which means that you can't make any meaningful predictions about any individual person based on those statistical differences.

[@cathyl3526]

I love when people talk about boys are [A] and girls are [b] based on their study population of their own two children.

[@itisdevonly]

+

[@neilballou]

I've never heard the banana one before, but my initial reaction was to assume it predates modern knowledge about chromosomes and such and is just "sympathetic magic", as in, "Oh, you want to have a boy? Here, eat this food which is vaguely shaped like a phallus." I don' t know if it is that old, but I could see someone who is uneducated and superstitious thinking that correlation sounded plausible.

[@jaimeduncan6167]

I am not sure in reality the sex determination is that simple, yes we know for a fact that the sperm genetic code determinate the sex, but we don't know the level the egg determinate which sperm is the one transferring the genetic code. The idea that only one arrive (always) is elegant and plausible, but pretty unlikely.

[@SplatterInker]

Uneducated? Try educated my dude. Like will cure like (e.g. cure your tongue with this plant that looks like a tongue) was a genuine medical practice of doctors in the 16th and 17th centuries.

[@YuliaFok]

my aunt is a midwife (not in the US) and she collected data from patients from several years, and besides other more "serious" topics, looked at wives tales and unsurprisingly most weren't confirmed. but she discovered that girls are on average a bit early than boys (the peak of the bell curve is around 39w for girls and 41w for boys if i'm not mistaken)

[@fr05ty749]

I had 3 boys and all come early First baby 27weeks stopped in time lucky but ended up coming 37weeks Baby 2 39weeks Baby 3 - 38weeks I think it depends on the baby and mother’s body

[@YuliaFok]

@@fr05ty749 it's what average, not what is normal or abnormal. Obviously there are a lot of cases with "late" girls or "early" boys and that are absolutely common and normal. They just decided to look a the distribution by sex and obtained those results. It's a statistical analysis rather than a medical one.

[@sambyrne6399]

I had no heartburn in pregnancy so I was so surprised when the theatre staff compliment her full head of hair before I even got to see her. She needed a bit of help after the c section so I think they were trying to keep me calm. Not sure how much I took in at that point anyway my BP dropped and I was feeling light headed. Finally got to see her in recovery. Had pleasant hours of skin to skin and cuddles ❤

[@cobalong]

I had absolutely awful heartburn during my pregnancy, and then my son was born with the most hair my midwife had ever seen! Fascinating to get the MDJ opinion on it!

[@EmoInu13]

I'm curious how common it is for a baby to have a true knot in their cord. It happened with my second baby and my dr. said that she had only seen it one other time during her 20 years of practice.

[@acyasin1000]

I was born with one! My Mom's doc also said it was very rare!

[@kristend344]

My niece had three true knots. She was born at 30 weeks gestation by C-section as the dr knew "something" was seriously wrong and sent her to the medical school for care. The attending had only heard of it. (At the same time I was in prenatal classes and being told by the midwife knots were 'impossible". um, no, they're not.)

[@codename495]

@@kristend344 improbable, sure but definitely recorded.

[@uked2127]

I remember seeing some statistic like 1 in 2,000. However, that was years ago and I couldn't tell you the source anymore. My first born daughter had one true knot in her cord. My OBGYN had me sign a release so he could photograph it. He was a seasoned doctor as well and said he had only ever seen it in textbooks in med school.

[@sherrybrissette1614]

My grandson was born with a true knot. The midwife said she had never seen one before and she was well into her 60s.

[@crystallong9625]

When I was pregnant with my son, his heart rate was usually from 120-140. I had two more babies after him that were girls and their heart rates were always 150-180. IMHO, I believe that everyone is different in that retrospect.

[@coffeecrazedparenthood7289]

Anecdotally speaking here: -5 kids, really intense heartburn (to the point it caused vomiting the entire pregnancy) with all 5. 3 born practically bald, 1 born with a little bit of hair, 1 born with more than the others but was also early enough that we think it was more lanugo than "real hair." -All 5 kids had a storm within 24 hours of birth (some before, some after). 1 of them was born right after the worst ice storm of the year; made the 20 minute drive to the hospital take closer to 50 mins. I'm just glad that 1 wasn't the child who's labor was just over an hour long 🤣

[@cartoonkelly7924]

My Mom worked in an emergency room. She dreaded working when the moon was full. Something about “the crazies”. Also, skunks are adorable.

[@daniellegarrett841]

I'm a believer in the Moon myth. I was induced when I had my daughter. My induction was supposed to be 24 hours before I actually went in, because other women kept coming in to the hospital in labor. Every time a bed would open up, they would have to call me back & tell me to stay home because someone else had come in. There had been a Full Moon that night. When I finally got the last call to come in at 7am the next morning, I said "For real this time?!?!" The person that called me had mentioned that full moons always do that in hospitals. LOL!

[@allisonbrown1575]

I would love to hear you talk about hyperemesis gravidarum. There is so little good information on KZbin about it and how to get through pregnancy with HG.

[@TranceDark]

I had it. The only way I got through it was with meds. I had to take Bonjesta and Reglan every day as none of the other anti nausea medications worked. I don’t know about heartburn, but my child had a complete head of hair when she came out.

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

I hate it when people say oh it's just severe morning sickness though. It's not, at all. Comparing morning sickness to HG is like comparing a gentle breeze to a hurricane. Too many women are left untreated or undertreated or feel they have no option but to end the pregnancy because of the severity of their symptoms, and so many end up repeatedly hospitalised or even on TPN because they can't even keep water down even with large doses of IV or subcutaneous antiemetics. It's horrible, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. People can, and have, died from this and it needs far more awareness (and the doctors need to stop relying on ketones to decide they need treatment, alone it's just an indication).

[@deborahmeier1309]

This 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[@naenar]

Definitely please. It's definitely hard to advocate for yourself when your medical team pass it off as a bit of vomiting or describe you as princess.

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

@@naenar Or patronisingly ask if you've tried ginger ale or crackers before you get out of bed... *facepalm*

[@glassdragonmedia]

The barometric pressure one is interesting! This is just an educated guess, but I would think it happens so baby is born quickly preceding danger so it is easier to run away from said danger. Think of a herd of wild horses, the herd would be able to run away more quickly if the mare were not carrying and mare and foal can then keep up with the others while fleeing.

[@catnipaddict88]

Interesting! We are just another animal in the animal kingdom, and organism in this Ecosystem.

[@glassdragonmedia]

@@catnipaddict88 correct! We still have many evolutionary traits geared toward wild survival, like many other animals.

[@rubynelson1164]

@@katethegreat4918 I live in hurricane land and it does happen. Ug

[@imzadi83fanvids7]

Makes sense. I was also wondering if the stress of the danger of an approaching storm could also be a factor.

[@catnipaddict88]

@@imzadi83fanvids7 probably !

[@juliekok8346]

I first heard of the hands above the head one when I was pregnant in 2019 with my daughter. My MIL stopped me from reaching for a cup because she said the cord would wrap around my baby’s neck. I kinda just brushed it off as a wives tale from where she was from and never let her see me reach again 🤭

[@peachledesma4790]

I had two baby girls with beautiful, full heads of hair and I never experienced a minute of heartburn 😅

[@KitKat10281]

My daughter was nearly bald, with just the finest of blonde peach fuzz, and I had AWFUL heartburn with her! 😂

[@AuntieRoma]

I was told if you count 22 weeks from when you very first feel the baby move, that will be the day the baby would be born. My own study of this was surprisingly accurate. Two different friends we tested it on were right on the date calculated from the first move. The other 5 or so, my daughter included, were within the week of the the “predicted” date. It’s fun to do, and very satisfying when it is right. 😁 P.S. Based on mine and my sister’s pregnancies, having “all day sickness” longer than the normal amount of time, means “it’s a girl”. 💖 Same with our nieces and friends. Yes I know it’s all coincidental, but interesting.

[@user-nn4rg4ey7n]

Hi how are you doing?

[@sabihasayeed1670]

It's because the baby's movement is felt by the mother at 16-22 weeks, so if you add 22 to that you basically get a full term baby.

[@D7Mar134]

It seems like it would be difficult to separate barometric pressure and increased anxiety both due to big storms. Both could impact delivery.

[@clueless_cutie]

Either way seems like a pretty crappy time to go into labor!

[@Seapatico]

Whenever you say you're short, it blows my mind because you don't seem short to me. I would love to see how tall KZbinr are vs people's guesses

[@naedatanner8832]

Sean Cook MDJ said in a video with her mom that she is 5'1".

[@Anna-B]

Hi MDJ! I would love it if you talked about cyclical breast pain and what causes it. And how you can try and get rid of it. I’ve been having it sense this summer, and it’s super annoying! I know it comes because of hormones, and I know it isn’t a sign of a serious condition, but other than that 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Memacis1995]

I was told to avoid caffeine by my doctor, and it worked for me. Haha, I just put up with the pain when I needed a chocolate fix.

[@elisharoberts1029]

I got some lovely shooting pain through my breast and 'out' my nipple if I consumed too much caffeine. Literally felt like a lightning bolt zinging through my chest cavity. Turns out it only happens with increased caffeine consumption and if I've eaten too much sugar. My Dr was more than a little surprised by my symptoms. Best of luck to you.

[@Anna-B]

Hmm, caffeine… maybe I should cut down on pop, and see if that does something?

[@elisharoberts1029]

@@Anna-B that honestly did the trick for me. At least I can still have chocolate regularly if I keep the portions small.

[@sidneyw1289]

I was born with the chord wrapped twice around my neck! My mom always said I came out so fast (she labored for only 45 minutes) because of it. I was purple when I came out and they had to take me away because of it and I didn’t cry for the first like 2 minutes of my life

[@NickyTribble]

I’d never heard of the full moon theory until I was deep in labor, heard my midwives blaming the full moon for the busy night - I didn’t even know it was a full moon until then either! So yes I do believe that one! Also had a lot of heart burn and a very hairy baby!!

[@alicewest586]

Woah I’ve never been this early! I had chronic heartburn the last 5 months of my pregnancy and my son was born with a gorgeous head of hair 🤷🏻‍♀️🥰

[@PRDreams]

My first one was bald, I had no heartburn. My second and third had beautiful dark hair (think pixie cut amount) and it was hell. They told me to drink pickle juice with my second. It didn't help and I think it actually made it worse. If you have horrible heartburn, just tell your doctor, just don't listen to your grandma 🤣

[@TXBlueEyes]

In my husband's culture they say that if a pregnant woman has a craving and *doesn't* eat the food she's craving, then the baby will have a birthmark that somehow resembles that food. Obviously completely untrue, but there's not a lot of motivation to debunk that particular myth 😂

[@peachmelba9333]

Hmmn I still love strawberries and I was born with a Strawberry birthmark in the middle of my forehead. I'm Celtic pale so it still shows but I regard it as MY BEAUTY MARK

[@brittinnes7284]

@@peachmelba9333 my mum ate a lot of strawberries while pregnant and I had a strawberry mark on the side of my head

[@abigailscott6473]

I've also heard that if the mother craves a food while pregnant, the child won't like the food as they get older.

[@elisab.2398]

Yet, i had horrendous heartburn that left me in tears during my pregnancy and my baby was born practically bald. I got the, oh, you're going to have a hairy baby all the while I was pregnant and suffered with heartburn, but nope. not true for me.

[@royalpainapple9021]

I had no heart burn at all so everyone thought my son would come out bald. Nope, he had so much hair at birth

[@VeracityLH]

The barometric pressure idea is interesting. I have fibromyalgia and I guarantee you that I can feel even tiny changes in barometric pressure. To the extent that when I start to hurt more for seemingly no reason, the first thing I do is check the weather to see what changed. So it wouldn't surprise me if we first d hard proof that it affects pregnancy and birth. Yes, every OB doctor, nurse, and midwife I know preps for the full moon rush in births, but I've often wondered if the moon affected the way both they and the mums' reactions than it affected the actual birth rate. Maybe one day we'll find a definitive answer there too. Congrats on your millionth subscriber! I've recommended you to my daughter and my aunt, and will keep on passing your videos! Cheers.

[@Rhianalanthula]

My eldest wriggled around so much during my 12 week scan, the sonographer had trouble focussing on her. At some point during her months of wriggling, she managed to get the cord wrapped round her neck twice. In my case the nuchal cord was dangerous for her. Every contraction was putting strain on the cord, and her heart rate dropped by 50%. The decision was made for a c-sec as the baby was in distress. A few years later, I ended up talking to my aunt about it. She told me that they discovered my cousin had the cord round his neck three times during the delivery. She had to have an episiotomy so they could cut the cord, and allow safe delivery.

[@dr521]

There is some evidence that European Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) (basically elk) females in good condition (dominant females) are slightly more likely to have males. This is may be caused by the female’s uterus/hormones/something changing slightly allowing the male sperm to have a slight advantage compared to the female sperm. If I remember correctly, male and female sperm do better in slightly different acidity or something related. But essentially, better condition females are more likely to give birth to bigger, better condition calves. Producing a dominant male calf means he will outcompete other less quality males, so the mother will have more grandchildren. Females with worse body condition will produce slightly more females, because females are basically guaranteed reproduction, so if the calf isn’t going to be big, it’s better to be a female who will reproduce than a male who will never reproduce. But this is not well understood, and we don’t know the exact mechanisms yet. Hopefully my not great explanation makes some sense.

[@ninaklishevich5280]

I read a similar theory about human populations. That male fetuses need on average more nutrition than female fetuses. Or if said in another way - female fetuses can survive in worse conditions. As a result during the famines, the overall population would see increase in female births, and during abundant years on the contrary. Of course it is valid in large numbers of the whole population, rather than individual families

[@dr521]

I believe the first study on this was Clutton-Brock (1984)

[@Mack2279]

Omg this is so interesting thanks for sharing

[@CaryannCathlene]

I love that you’re doing this video! My husband and I have been going through old wives tales just for fun, but it’s nice to know which ones actually have some validity to them. I’m super bummed about the heartburn one though! I was so hoping for my child to have my husbands curly hair! I’ll check back on all of these when they’re actually here. 😂

[@MK-Hogan]

I had horrendous heartburn during pregnancy and my baby had hair. Her hair is actually super fine and thin (at 18 now) so I was always surprised, thinking back, that she was born with any hair.

[@lisajones1438]

I feel Jipped! My baby's blonde hair is still SO hard to see and we're at 9mo now

[@peachmelba9333]

I was told if your baby had hair you would accuse your doctor of tickling you down there.

[@mellamokori]

This is me. I was born with a full head of hair, but it’s always been so fine that I often look like I’m balding 😅

[@jerelull9629]

A million subscribers comes from a good, cheerful, believable presenter with the fax, just the facts.

[@gracefullyliving8678]

We use the full moon one for our students at school. The full moon days equals the elementary kids acting more crazy at school and technology not working lol.

[@A1exBOfficial]

Just had a look out of curiosity as I'd never heard about the full moon theory, and my daughter was born the day before the full moon - a week earlier than her due date! A coincidence I'm sure, but it's just funny to see. :D

[@AnnieNYC1]

Well, my mom was told I was "clearly a boy" from the shape/direction/height of her belly as she carried me. I'm certainly NOT a boy ... My hypothesis for people's certainty is that after multiple girls, the statistical probability that the fifth baby will be a boy was ... well ... tempting. Just not scientifically accurate. Those are fun, BTW.

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

My husband has said that our third kid will PROBABLY be a boy after two girls. I just smiled and said it's still 50/50~

[@AwesomeCat2012]

Actually, not long ago I read a study that statistically, if the first two babies are the same gender, the ones following will likely be that same gender... and the odds of that increase with each baby. So if baby 2 is a girl, odds are higher 3 will be, also. And then if 3 is also a girl, odds get even higher that 4 will be a girl, and so on. Now, I know 2 families who each had 3 girls, and baby 4 was a boy... so NOTHING is a guarantee. lol

[@AnnieNYC1]

@@AwesomeCat2012 True. And we probably proved it by my mom continuing to have even MORE girls after my birth, too! My cousin has 7 boys.

[@kelseyseib5361]

That olive figs set looks bomb on you!!!

[@tamarapink7110]

Would love to see you make a video about the midwifery community and the challenges they're facing in New Zealand at the moment. Such a huge topic in maternity care here in NZ right now

[@nikiichan]

My mum often tells me this story about how when she was pregnant, the aunt who lived in the same building as us came RUNNING downstairs telling my mum that an eclipse was going to take place. She advised my mum to stay inside and not look at the moon or sun because it could create a dark hair spot on her child. She proudly mentions that this is the reason I am "fair and beautiful" it just sounds like mumbojumbo to me.

[@Tracymmo]

Its amazing what people buy into

[@brittanyc7998]

10 years working at the other end of life. Barometric pressure definitely affects our case rates!

[@katerineella274]

Could you elaborate?

[@brittanyc7998]

Right before a big storm when the barometric pressure drops the number of reported deaths to our office goes down. Then after the storm has passed and pressure returns to normal we will get a slight surge, as if it needs to equal out.

[@jessicalay6553]

Wow doc you look absolutely stunning today! Also so proud oh the million well deserved!!

[@tinkeramma]

Lydia, age 5, sees babies at 3:14 and 3:45 and squeals in delight. Lydia: Are there more babies??? Mommy: No. Lydia: Curse you, videos! She says "we need her babies of cuteness in videos 😍." Might have to go take her to see Pax over on Twitter.

[@corlissawong6999]

Chinese Asian here! 🙋🏻‍♀️ 1. Confinement period is a big deal for after delivery. For a month after delivering, the mum is instructed to do nothing but rest and feed the baby. An elder lady or even (confinement) nanny will be around to care for the mum and baby. There’re extras thrown into the mix though: herbs, not allowed to shower, not allowed to drink water (only longan red date tea). Yep. For a whole month. 2. No cutting of anything on the bed during pregnancy, as it’s believed to hurt the baby/bring bad luck. Not sure if it’s true but.. why would anyone cut anything on their bed? 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@EamonWill]

My son was born with a full head of gorgeous hair and none of that hair fell out like it does for most babies. I had hyperemesis gravidarum (extreme morning sickness) and GERD (the worst heartburn you can imagine). He was (and still is) so unbelievably, adorably, beautifully, handsome that it might just have been worth it, lol. Oh, and my hormone shakes after delivery were so bad that I looked like I belonged in a detox facility!

[@maryvblair]

My sister had SO MUCH heartburn while pregnant and my nephew was bald for like the first 2 years of his life

[@hidingfromsomeone]

As someone who was born in the middle of a huge thunderstorm, the barometric pressure one is interesting to me!

[@jacquelinedulmage6882]

Skunks are adorable how dare you 😭 HAVE YOU SEEN THEM WADDLE?!

[@KayElayempea]

Yeah, every living skunk I have seen is relatively cute. Now most possums are not so cute in my opinion.

[@yarnpower]

Yes, I had wicked heartburn with all 3 of my pregnancies and all my babies had full heads of hair. While in the hospital I never worried I wouldn't know which baby was mine because of their hair!

[@shieh.4743]

Zero heartburn; lots of hair. I was also not glowing with my boys - sweating because it was summer in Korea - but definitely not glowing. 😆

[@elysesidhu4641]

I go against science apparently. I had absolutely no heartburn during either of my pregnancies. Both my kids were born with a luscious locks of dark black hair. Especially my son, his hair was straight up and floofed in the wind.

[@whitneymichael5584]

I "carried wrong" both times (looked like a boy for my daughter and girl for my son). Heartburn thing was true for me though! Hardly had any with my daughter and she was practically bald, tons with my son and he had lots of hair.

[@DowntownTasty]

My mom works in healthcare and she SWEARS by the full moon one. The only other one of these I heard was carrying high/low but I was waiting for the full moon one 😂

[@kellyvail4514]

The heartburn one holds up for me! I had heart burn with both of my kids, but it was way worse with my second who had a TON of hair!

[@maryrhudy9250]

I had debilitating morning sickness the whole time I was pregnant all three times. 3 out of 3 babies with full heads of hair.. Also, I always knew the sex my baby would be. I just knew. Two times the ultrasound tech tried to tell me my girls were going to be boys. Man, if those techs could see those girls, now. Definitely female. It never occurred to me to pick out a boy's name for my girls or a girl's name for my son.

[@Listrynne]

I knew I was pregnant before I took the test and it was basically the earliest day it would show up. Then I knew I she was a girl long before the ultrasound. And I told everyone for months she'd be early. She was 11 days early. One week before my OB was like "you've got 3 more weeks". I was just like, sure doc. She's gonna be here before that. Sometimes we just know. She was also born with a full head of hair and my heartburn was horrendous the whole time. It was honestly my worst "symptom". No nausea though.

[@jenniferreynolds1537]

I am 19 weeks and we are letting the gender be a surprise. I felt it was a boy, but now with all the wives tales, its made me second guess it! Now just wait another 5 months to know if I was originally right! Lol!

[@peachmelba9333]

My cousin was told Baby#2 was a boy by ultrasound tech. When Victoria Joy showed up Doctor said VJ took after Cousin and was flipping off the 🌎

[@gigi_m_l]

Could you react to the birth in Addams Family Values, please? I think it would be really fun

[@errinwellman1960]

I love the idea of a Halloween mini episode with spooky births!

[@espoir45]

I have a question! My mother only has one ovary. Several years before she had me, she said that during work she felt something “slip out”, thought she had started her period, and when she went to the bathroom, she saw something gray and circular. She went to the hospital where they told her she was perfectly healthy, nothing was out of the ordinary, and that it was likely just a cyst. It wasn’t until years later that doctor’s told her (10 years AFTER I had been born) that she had only one ovary. This was because they had discovered she had uterine fibroids and during the process, also discovered the lonely ovary. I’ve tried googling to see if this exists but I can only find stuff about full-on uterine prolapse. I’m just curious if just ovaries can actually fall out of the body for whatever reason.

[@mathildafollend9358]

While pregnant with our 1st kid, I did regularly go to a local clubhouse for young adults and older to keep socially active (new to the area and didn't know a soul beside husband and MIL). At the time when it was obvious I was pregnant the people at the clubhouse tried to guess the gender according to how my belly was shaped/'hanged'. One said if the belly is high, it's a girl; low, it's a boy - while at the same time another claimed the exact opposite: high = boy, low = girl 😅 Both were absolutely convinced their guess was correct 😂 I could only say "Yes," and let them argue about who was correct 😂

[@jenniferburns2530]

I always get a good laugh at these. As the mom of a bald girl, I had horrible heartburn, was eating a banana almost every day at the time of conception, and I carried low (I am short, with fairly wide hips.) Even ultrasound can be wrong, if it's done early in pregnancy or the baby is in a position that blocks a clear view.

[@zoorenard1101]

I always took the heartburn as facts. I had extreme acid reflux during pregnancy and my daughter was very hairy! About an inch long at birth!

[@gwillis01]

I think the human brain has always had an incredible hunger to look for patterns in the chaos of the the world. Many superstitions arise out of the need to find a comforting level of predictability during the ups and downs and scary uncertainties of pregnancy.

[@tawnie9204]

Please an Endometriosis video soon! Need a female perspective.

[@angelic_ky]

Yes. Please

[@AllegrettoATempo]

I had outrageously bad heartburn, like "oh wow I understand why people think they're having a heart attack when it's really only heartburn" bad heartburn. And my baby was born with absolutely tons of hair!

[@lelamoore6426]

So the story I always heard about my own birth was that I was born during a full moon and the L&D ward was packed. When I gave birth to my son, it was also during a full moon and the ward was packed. My mom came to visit and noticed it. I love this connection between our experiences!

[@diyakalsi1895]

I feel like you’d be able to make a whole other video of u talked about wives tales specific to Hawaii as well, considering the culture and history of Hawaii

[@kellieneville2796]

I've heard that eggs actually release a chemical that attracts sperm; is it possible with the banana study that the increased potassium intake of the female partner might change the type of sperm (male vs female) that's attracted to the egg?

[@mothgirl2617]

that would be a cool study, but do sperms cells have any kind of different chemical attractions due to their sex?

[@Elf0304]

@@mothgirl2617 My theory, was, if there was any validity to it, was that diet may make it easier for certain sperms to travel to the egg.