We live in an age of information. With just a couple of clicks, we can find out pretty much anything we want to know. However, with all the information available, some old wives’ tales persist. Some are harmless (even if they are not true), while other sayings might be a little more strange. So let’s take a look at some common pregnancy old wives’ tales and see if there is any truth to them..
Many people confuse heart palpitations in adults with the heart rates of fetuses. However my friends, these things have nothing to do with each other! Your babys heart rate will range in between 110 – 180 beats per minute (BPM) during prenatal development, while they also depend on the activity level and age of your baby. The only relationship between fetal heartbeat and gender is that males tend to have slightly faster heartbeats than females during development, but that is the extent at which it applies!
Carrying a child is so exciting and as exciting as it may be some mom-to-be’s may also be worried about their unborn baby. Just as any other healthy parent would do, a pregnant woman wants to do everything she can to make sure the child inside of her is perfectly healthy. To help you feel better about carrying your child, please be careful whom you take advice from – among the most dangerous myths are those about what pregnant people should or shouldn’t do. They like people to believe that it is harmful for a mom-to-be to lift her arms above her head and will say that if this happens the baby might die. It doesn’t work like that and such things are absurd!
Worrying about sex before the birth keeps almost no one calm. There are various ways of finding out in advance. But most fall short and also there can be a mixture of dangerous chemical compounds involved. For instance, in case you follow folk recipes telling you to urinate on acidic crystals like drain cleaner, this would not be entirely safe for your health. Recently, we have developed a way to know the gender of an unborn baby by medical means. However, before this technology, parents could only wait until their child was born to find out the gender. If you absolutely must find out the sex of your unborn baby before it’s born, please ensure that you do it in a qualified healthcare facility using approved medical services.
If you’re one of the unlucky ones who experience heartburn during pregnancy, you may be worried about your newborn ending up with a lot of hair. It turns out that this is one old wives’ tale that has some truth to it: 82 per cent of infants with frequent heartburn had mothers who experienced heartburn during their pregnancies. Estrogen and progesterone are what make hair on babies. This hormone can cause the esophagus to produce more acid, thus leading to indigestion and heartburn.
Specific body types can be responsible for how you carry your baby. Scientists have proven that having a different torso type definitely affects your ability to properly wear your new bundle of joy. Which means, an old wives’ tale that has been around forever is actually inaccurate and wrong today. Women who are experiencing their second pregnancy typically believe that their body has changed because of it – but really what’s happening is their torso type is different enough for the difference in how they’re holding their child!
As you have probably seen, most of these stories that people like to share are in fact, just stories. They may try to pass them off as truths but they could not be further from the truth.
