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• Cancel the Ultrasound: Chinese Gender Chart 100% Accurate!

  Why bother with that 20-week ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby? Just look up a few details on this ancient Chinese gender chart and starting painting the nursery walls! The chart takes into account mom's age at the time of conception, as well as the month the baby was conceived (so scientific!), runs it all through a centuries-old, secret, honorable information filter and, boom!, a "B" or a "G."   Read More... Posted May 29 2008, 03:31 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: ultrasounds, old wives' tales, about.com, ancient chinese gender chart, 20-week ultrasound, confucius, baby's gender, boy or girl quiz

• Want A Boy? A Girl? How To Skew The Odds In Your Favor

  Researchers at Oxford and Exeter Universities in the UK studied over seven hundred women experiencing their first pregnancies, and found that what the subjects ate while trying to conceive had a significant impact on the sex of their babies. Read More... Posted Apr 25 2008, 01:33 PM by asflutz with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, Conception, old wives' tales, Oxford University, choosing sex of your baby, Exeter University

• Blame the Teeth

  Without old wives and their many tales, new parents would never know that every physical ailment of their infant can be chalked up to teething. Diarrhea? Must be teeth. Constipation? Teeth. Mysterious rashes? Teeth. Drool? Fussiness? Cradle cap? Sleeplessness? Teeth, teeth, teeth and teeth.   Read More... Posted Apr 09 2008, 02:29 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with no comments Filed under: health, babies, science, teeth, teething, fevers, old wives' tales