Now that you are pregnant the question becomes what is the gender going to be? It is so hard to plan all of the details from names to color schemes without knowing whether the child you are expecting is going to be a boy or girl.
Discover how you might be able to tell before you are able to have an ultra sound.
There are many wives tales about to help you determine the gender of your child.
Here are a few for you to use to try to determine is it going to be a boy or girl.
The string and pencil method This involves using a pencil, some thread and a needle.
You thread the thread through the needle and then stick the sharp end of the needle into the eraser of the pencil.
It should line up thread, needle, pencil with the lead end pointing down.
You then will suspend (by the thread) the pencil and needle contraption over the inside of the fore arm of your pregnant person.
If the pencil swings up and down the length of the arm she will have a boy.
If the pencil swings across the wrist, it will be a girl.
The string and ring method Loop some yarn or string through a ring and then suspend the ring above a pregnant woman's abdomen if the ring swings in a circle she is expecting a boy, if it swings back and forth it is a girl.
High/low method If you are carrying your baby low it is a boy, high it is a girl.
Conception age method If the mother's age at conception and the year of conception are both even or both odd, the baby is a girl.
If one is even and one is odd, the baby is a boy.
How sick are you method Mild or no morning sickness it is a boy.
If on the other hand you are sure you can't look at food or be around any thing with an odor without having to run for the bathroom, it is a girl.
Heartbeat method If your baby's heartbeat is 140 or more it will be a girl, slower than 140 and it might be a boy.
While women throughout the ages have had to depend on these, mostly unreliable, methods over the centuries, we now have technology available to use that allows us to look inside the womb.
We can now determine not only if it is a boy or girl, but the health and structure of the developing baby.
Truly we live in an amazing time to be pregnant.