I did the threaded pin in the pencil trick (thread a sewing pin and sitck it into the eraser of a sharpened pencil) and dangle it over your upturned wrist. Side to side means boy, up and down means girl.. and it supposedly tells you how many children and their genders. Mine said girl, boy, boy, girl. My first child is a girl! That trick has been done on a ton of people (even those who already had children) and it worked every time. Maybe just a fluke, but it was fun.

I also took the Gender Prediction test (a cup that you buy, pee in, and if it turns orange you’re having a girl, green it’s a boy).. the colors supposedly react to the levels of testosterone in your urine. Anyways, it’s 99% accurate if it comes back as girl, but only about 45% accurate if it says boy. Mine said boy and was wrong.

We didn’t know with our last baby what gender was. All the old wives tales pointed to a boy and we had a girl! You just never know.

When I was pregnant, during my baby shower, my friends decided to predict whether it was a boy or a girl by using the ring test and after about 2 tests, we were all convinced it was a girl! There was absolutely no doubt in my mind that it was a girl and so you can imagine my shock when my son came out complete with his boy bits!! We joked that it was like it’d always been set in stone that he was a boy, and so I named him Pierre which is french for stone.

The only prediction I might believe is my paternal grandmother, she’s been opposite for all 8 grandkids, the last two we all wanted to know what she thought so we could believe opposite

The Chinese chart said I’m having a boy so we’ll see when the baby is born in Feb.!

Another thing regarding the gender charts – they definitely vary. Some say I am having a girl, others say boy. Some are also based on lunar month and age too!

i read a study that tested the accuracy of the chinese gender test, the draino test (i forget what you do with the draino-something with your urine) and one other old wives tales. and guess what? they were all about 50% accurate. for me, the chinese gender chart was right on one, wrong on the other. it’s fun to guess with these methods though. but it’s just that…a guess.

The Chinese calendar was wrong with my first pregnancy. But the ring test was dead on. It swung back and forth and I had a boy. This time I have this strong feeling it’s a girl and the ring test is going in circles. We’ll find out Oct. 14th!

These old wives tales are just that…old wives tales. They aren’t legitimate in the least bit. It’s a 50/50 chance guessing either way and the odds are even so it’s only LUCKY GUESSING!

My mother had two boys and with both pregnancies she carried all over and gained a lot of weight all around her body and everyone was telling her she was having a girl with BOTH her kids. She also craved non-stop sweets. She said ice cream and chocolate were must haves for her while preggo with me and my brother. She would make my dad run out at 3 in the morning for ice cream with whipped cream!

My aunt, who had all girls, craved spicey foods and carried all in the front and didn’t gain any weight besides the healthy amount expected. She looked like her normal self just with a big baby bump every time.

I have tried these old wives tales on friends and the results always come out muddled. it either works or it doesn’t…which just proves that it’s all a guessing game.

Well, any guess does have a 50% chance of being right.