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Gender Guessing

Myths for Predicting a Baby's Sex

By Katherine Bontrager

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Silverman has tried this method on relatives, friends and acquaintances. "I've even looked at the face of a pregnant woman I've never met before, sensed whether her face had changed, and taken my feeling to someone who knew her to confirm my feeling," says Silverman. "I've used my method of revealing – I don't call it 'predicting' – for about two decades and have about a 98 percent accuracy rate."

The Eye of a Needle
Romina Newsome's family has a needle trick that does more than determine the sex of a baby – it determines the number of children and their sexes before pregnancy, for both men and women.

"It's similar to the trick of hanging the wedding band from a string," says Newsome, who is from Columbus, Ohio. "You take a needle hanging by a thread, take the hand of either a woman or man, and rub the thread up and down once or twice along the palm. Then dangle the needle above the center of the palm. If the needle swings back and forth, it's a girl. If it moves in a circle, it's a boy. You repeat the first step until the needle stands still above the palm. This tells you how many children you'll have and the sex of each baby – also accounting for miscarriages."

Newsome says the accuracy rate has been impressive. "I've known this trick since I was a child," she says. "I can't even tell you how long it has been around!"

Everything but the Kitchen Sink
Aliza Sherman Risdahl of Anchorage, Alaska, says she and her husband heard several wives' tales that convinced them they were having a boy. First Risdahl was told that if she craved spicy food over sweet, she should begin planning for a boy. "I've been eating a ton of salsa with everything and Thai and never get heartburn," she says. "On the flip side, it wasn't until my third trimester that I could stomach anything sweet."

The family also looked to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, which can be found on countless sites online. According to the chart directions, you identify the age of the mother at the time of conception and the month the baby was conceived to find the predicted gender. Risdahl's chart results always seemed to show up as a boy.


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