Pregnancy Myths and Old Wives Tales

[Bubblicious]

I know I've heard my share. With my first, I was told not to vacuum at ALL - the back and forth motion was suppose to be 'bad' and also not to reach above my head as it would wrap the cord around the baby's neck. (I'm beginning to see why I gained so much weight with my first ) The 2nd time around I didn't listen to those as much. But this time, if my mother saw me lifting weights at the gym, she'd strangle me The woman won't hardly let me lift my purse in her sight So the gym thing is between you and me

One more to add - my sister's baby had a problem with crossed eyes and her in laws told her it was because she saw a rattlesnake while she was preggo

[RpH]

Originally Posted by Bubblicious

I know I've heard my share. With my first, I was told not to vacuum at ALL - the back and forth motion was suppose to be 'bad' and also not to reach above my head as it would wrap the cord around the baby's neck. (I'm beginning to see why I gained so much weight with my first ) The 2nd time around I didn't listen to those as much. But this time, if my mother saw me lifting weights at the gym, she'd strangle me The woman won't hardly let me lift my purse in her sight So the gym thing is between you and me

One more to add - my sister's baby had a problem with crossed eyes and her in laws told her it was because she saw a rattlesnake while she was preggo

Yep, a rattlesnake will do that every time.

[Bubblicious]

Originally Posted by RpH

Yep, a rattlesnake will do that every time.

Apparently so

[Meadows]

Heartburn = lots of hair.

Hubby's family tried to get me to pee in Drano to determine the sex of the baby. They did the pencil tied to a string trick too.

Carrying a certain way means boy, a different way means girl. The way I carried should have meant boy, but Sadie is all girl.

I am sure there were more. I'll have to think.

[Bubblicious]

I've heard of the draino test My aunt did a needle on a string over my belly - it said I was going to have a boy - I had a girl My SIL thought that sleeping more on your right side, I think, meant that you were having a boy. And of course she believed she proved those theories out.

[Blondell]

My sister was told that if you talk negatively about a person, while pregnant, your baby comes out looking like that person.


What if you talk negatively about a lot of different people?

[char-dawg]

[Erik]

Strong bump!

[kaydee]

I wish the heartburn = hair thing was true....my son is bald as bald can be, but holy heartburn lol

[Sowbug]

I especially like the one where they say you HAVE to gain weight in order to have a healthy baby.

Horse baloney!

With BOTH of my pregnancies I mysteriously got "pregnancy onset gastric bypass surgery" (this is my own term folks, doesn't really exist) as I became SO NOT HUNGRY *EVER* and only put on ten pounds the entire 9 months.

My doctor was hella pissed and kept telling me I'd have a premie or a small baby. WRONG.

Both of the little suckers took whatever from me and were both 7+ pounds.

I didn't start off "fluffy" either. I was 120lbs and 130 in month nine.

Then that whole nonsense about taking in an extra 500 calories during nursing? Turned out to be baloney for me as well.

I stayed really, really, REALLY hydrated but still wasn't hungry. I think the first three months all I wanted was cheerios and basically could nurse every kid on the dang block with leftovers for other countries.

Went from 130 post delivery to 110 5 months in.

When both boys were 11 months old they were done with me. DONE.

Fine, no worries, I wanted my dang boobs back anyway.

Unfortunately my appetite came back as well and mother porked up to 139 within a year.

At 5'3, it wasn't pretty. So, enter exercise and weight training for the old bag (that's me) and all is back to normal.

Anyway, just sayin', one doesn't have to 'eat for two' or go balls out when they're pregnant if they're NOT hungry.

'Course, every situation is different, but I've had a trillion girlfriends "eat for the baby", have the baby, and then have the weight of a sixth-grader to lose.

I just wasn't hungry at all. Maybe I'm the only freak of nature.