Well then you have an extra-large baby on the way. Not really, according to experts. In fact, baby bumps can tell you far more about Mom than the baby. Tight abs offer more support and lift to a growing uterus, so fit moms-to-be often carry higher, particularly with a first pregnancy. Remember all those fit bloggers posting their six-pack bumps? On the flip side, women with weaker middles tend to carry lower. So is it true?
Ross , MD, an ob-gyn at Providence St. Tall women have more up-and-down room between the pubic bone and top of abdomen than petite moms-to-be, which allows for pregnancy weight to distribute more evenly. Another reason for wide bumps: If baby is sprawled out horizontally otherwise known as a transverse lie.
Number five, looking at the sun during an eclipse will give your baby a cleft palate. That one would be hard to prove because there are few pregnant women who would be so careless as to look at the sun when they're pregnant during an eclipse, and there are a few eclipses and I don't really recommend a randomized controlled trial to test that one out.
Number six, you should eat for two when you're pregnant. I don't know where that one came from except that it's usually a rationalization about how much you might want to eat. You can get enough energy to make a baby in about calories extra a day, about 3 little cookies with no redeeming nutritional value, 3 tablespoons of peanut butter, notice that's not a rounded tablespoon but a flat one, ladies, or 3 glasses of reduced-fat milk, a good nutritional source of calcium and protein.
So you should eat for about 1. Number seven, you cannot color your hair when you're pregnant because it will harm the baby. If it were true, there would be some serious fashion problems.
It probably isn't good to introduce any new chemicals that you aren't sure about in your first trimester, but after that the amount that might be absorbed by your skin, if you do it a couple of times during your pregnancy, is unlikely to be a problem.
Number eight, drinking dark beer will help your milk come in. That's my family's favorite myth. It was given to my mother in Germany by the nuns at the hospital when she delivered me. It was given to my sister and to me, and it sure seemed to bring it on.
Well, actually, it doesn't make the milk be produced. Many women wonder if their high baby bump is caused by the upper part of their stomach growing first. When you become pregnant, your uterus is the first part of your stomach to grow. Around the fourth or fifth month, the uterus will have expanded to the point where it presses against the abdominals.
It might! This usually occurs because the baby has dropped before being born. Fetal sexing by ultrasound in the second trimester: maternal preference and professional ability. Ultrasound Obstet Gunecol. Testing pregnancy folklore. Exceptional Nurses Winchester Hospital was the first community hospital in the state to achieve Magnet designation, recognition for nursing excellence.
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Evidence Against the Health Claim Because the legend had lasted through the centuries, scientists set out to determine if there was any truth to this folklore. Conclusion If you want to guess the sex of your baby, using old wives tales and folklore can be fun. References 25th week of pregnancy. Image Credit: Nucleus Communications, Inc. Cancer Care. Emergency Services. Cesarean Birth.
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