{"id":31880,"date":"2024-08-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.mom.com\/momlife\/old-wives-tales-predicting-baby-gender"},"modified":"2024-09-25T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T03:38:05","slug":"old-wives-tales-predicting-baby-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/old-wives-tales-predicting-baby-gender","title":{"rendered":"14 Old Wives&#8217; Tales Used to Predict a Baby&#8217;s Gender That Have Been Debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>There are so many unknowns in <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/how-black-mothers-can-advocate-for-themselves-during-pregnancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pregnancy<\/a> and parenthood; it makes sense that parents would want to learn as much as they can to prepare. And that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/choosing-not-to-find-out-my-babys-gender-is-pissing-everyone-else-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">learning the baby's sex<\/a> before it's born. Although some parents may choose to keep that a surprise until delivery day, the overwhelming majority want to know &mdash; and they want to know ASAP. Throughout history that's led to a lot of old wives' tales for predicting a baby's sex through all kinds of crazy ways.<\/p><p>Dr. Dallas Reed, chief of genetics at Tufts Medical Center and principal medical adviser at <a href=\"https:\/\/myriad.com\/\">Myriad Genetics<\/a>, spoke with Mom.com about these old wives' tales and what the best way to determine a baby's sex really is.<\/p><p><strong>More from Mom.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/baby-name-trends-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baby Name Expert Says Baby Name Trends in 2024 Include Gender-Swapped Names &amp; Space Names<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many unknowns in pregnancy and parenthood; it makes sense that parents would want to learn as much as they can to prepare. And that includes learning the baby&#8217;s sex before it&#8217;s born. Although some parents may choose to keep that a surprise until delivery day, the overwhelming majority want to know &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":209121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53],"tags":[861,223],"featured":[],"internal-tag":[],"series":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are These Old Wives&#039; 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