Moms & nurses: Debunk this myth: If you eat meat, it's a boy, if you eat dairy, it's a girl

[Hawkeye-X]

I know this is probably a old wives tale, but you might know better.

Wife's 8 weeks...

Hawkeye-X

[miss_american_pie]

1. If you eat everything

it's a ten pound boy...

:hi:

[billyoc]

2. Make her eat a radioactive spider!

You know, just see what happens. :shrug:

[Hawkeye-X]

3. rofl

It'd make the wife go nuts to see the baby climbing the walls.

[billyoc]

14. haha, he could be his own mobile!

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

4. If a human bites a radioactive spider...

does the spider get human-powers? :shrug:

[billyoc]

15. Cut to spider sitting on the couch with the remote...

[TZ]

5. okay

Umm..since gender is determined pretty much at the moment of fertilization when either an x chrom bearing sperm meets the x egg or the y chromosome sperm meets the x egg..thats kind of difficult for umm diet to influence it..

[skygazer]

6. I believe that what the myth is saying

is that your body craves different things based on whatever gender child you are carrying, not that what you eat will cause you to have a boy or girl. :rofl:

I ate everything and anything for all three of my kids - I have one of each. :P

[Chan790]

9. a boy, a girl and a puppy?

That's what my mother tells people she wanted. She got three boys.

[skygazer]

11. I was wondering who'd catch that

I have 2 girls and a boy. But when I was carrying the first, I said the same thing - that I wanted puppies. :bounce:

[ZombieHorde]

7. My wife ate meat with our first child, which was a girl.

My wife was a vegetarian with our second child, which was a boy.

My wife's favorite drink is milk.

[LeftyMom]

8. If that were true, vegan moms would give birth to ken dolls.

:shrug:

[flvegan]

16. Or freakishly

smart and bigger than average kids.

Go figure.

[LeftyMom]

17. That never happens.

Now shut up about the breeding program, or LK will fuck up your cable box and give you a wedgie.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. If the wife's only 8 weeks...

she probably hasn't had any real craving yet.

:shrug:

[Hawkeye-X]

12. Not that I have seen yet....

[WCIL]

13. I craved TCBY white chocolate mousse

and ate it nearly every day while pregnant with my son.

[halobeam]

18. true for me...

ate roast beef heroes all the time w/ first and it was a boy..

ate roast beef heroes all the time w/ the second and it was a boy LOL:rofl:

[Writer]

19. Hrmmm... here's an odd coincidence from Spanish.

Spanish for "the meat" is el carne, with a masculine article.

Spanish for "the milk" is la leche, with a feminine article.


Coincidence???

[kick-ass-bob]

20. But by god, don't eat sausage and

drink milk! Who knows what'll come out!! :o

[tigereye]

21. if you eat fish, it's a mermaid or merman!

:rofl:

[Skittles]

22. my mum had three babies in 22 months

boy-girl-boy I'm the middle one - she didn't do a fast switch in eating habits in-between :D

[Mojambo]

23. I heard if you eat fruits and nuts it's Andy Dick. n/t

[Rhythm]

24. delete

wrong person logged in, sorry

[Lyric]

25. It's definitely not true. I was crazy about dairy, and had a boy.

I didn't eat more than my "normal" amount of meat, but OMG I craved dairy. Cottage cheese, regular cheese, yogurt, milk...I tripled my intake of that stuff. 9 months later, a healthy (and BIG) baby boy.

Congrats!! :hi: