For weeks I’ve been asking Will if he thought the baby was a boy or a girl. I knew we’d find out at the anatomy scan at 20 weeks (at the same time we’d find out much more important news like that the baby’s heart had developed properly) but I was dying to get a hint.
The internet is full of whack science methods for determining the sex of your unborn baby. I dove in.
Tests “Performed”:
- Chinese Gender Chart: Girl
- Heart Rate (above 140 means a girl): Girl
- Wedding Ring Test: Girl
- Morning Sickness (more sickness means a girl): Boy
- Increased Headaches: Boy
Result: Girl
Tests Not “Performed”:
- Baby girls “steal their mother’s beauty”: Inconclusive. No subjects willing to tell a pregnant lady her beauty had been stolen.
- Baby girls make their mothers face gain weight: Inconclusive. No subjects willing to tell a pregnant lady her face looked puffy.
- Cravings (sweet means a girl/salty means a boy): Inconclusive. No unusual cravings during this pregnancy.
- The Drano Test: Find Drano manufactured before 1980 and mix with urine (?). Newer Drano will not work for some reason. The concoction changes color and baby’s sex is somehow revealed. No thanks. (Sidenote: There are a lot of “tests” involving mixing urine with a random substance like baking soda or the water left in the pot after you boil red cabbage. None of these tests were performed.)