There are plenty of old wives tales about pregnancy. Want to know whether you're having a boy or a girl? If you're carrying low, you're having a boy. Want to increase the likelihood that you're having a girl? Load up your Palm with the Chinese birth chart calendar from HeyBaby, which will pinpoint the sex of your baby based on when you conceived.
But what about a healthy fetus? While you are heaving your guts out with morning sickness and a nice little old lady tells you not to worry because this is really a blessing in disguise, you might want to punch her out, but she's actually onto something.
Some recent studies have found that women suffering from morning sickness within the first four months of pregnancy are 30% less likely to miscarry. Nevertheless, the evidence remains mixed on the subject. Unfortunately, plenty of women have morning sickness and then miscarry, and many with none at all, carry to term. In this day and age of attempted control of the body and pregnancy and fertility, miscarriage remains a tragedy that is sometimes impossible to predict.
