What is The Relation Between Fetal Heart Rate And Baby Boy Or Girl Prediction?

Is fetal heart rate can really determine your baby's gender? This has actually been a pretty popular theory in gender prediction for a long time. As the old wives' tale has it, if your unborn baby's heart rate is higher, above 140 beats per minute, that means you're carrying a girl. A lower heart rate below 140 bpm means you're having a boy. Unfortunately, the old theory doesn't take into account that heart rate varies over the duration of pregnancy.

The heart rate of your baby fluctuates as they grow and as they move. Heart rates start out slower, and then by 8-10 weeks run in the range of 170-200 BPM (beats per minute). As your approach mid-pregnancy the average heart rates run between 120 - 160 BPM. If your baby moves, his or her heart rate goes up, just as your heart rate does with movement. However, none of these is related to the gender of your baby.
What is The Relation Between Fetal Heart Rate And Baby Boy Or Girl Prediction? 
A study was actually done to test this theory. The study actually shows that there is no correlation between gender and fetal heart rate. Although they did find a correlation between heart rate and gestational age prior to 9.2 weeks.

But don't get your hopes up, or have your hopes dashed, based on your baby's heart rate, because it has absolutely nothing to do with what your baby has between its legs. This particular old wives' tale was found to be completely false by a medical study 20 years ago. Another medical study in 2006 confirms that fetal heart rate has nothing to do with the baby's sex.
What is The Relation Between Fetal Heart Rate And Baby Boy Or Girl Prediction? 
A British study done in 1998 notes that "There is a widespread but erroneous view among the lay public that there is a difference in the baseline fetal heart rate between male and female fetuses." The scientists who conducted the study clearly assumed that the notion originated in folklore, but a scan of the medical literature over the past 30 years suggests otherwise.

In 2006, another study published in Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, tells us that analysis of over 500 births proves again that fetal heart rate cannot predict whether a baby is a boy or a girl. Contrary to beliefs commonly held by many pregnant women and their families, there are no significant differences between male and female fetal heart rate during the first trimester.
What is The Relation Between Fetal Heart Rate And Baby Boy Or Girl Prediction?
To be concluding, Fetal heart rate is not accurate to determine the baby's sex. It's fun, but an old wives tale. My friend told me she had high heart rates with all 3 of her boys, and with her daughter. Don't count on the heart rate determining whether or not you are having a boy or girl.

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Old Wives Tales About Baby Gender - Boy or Girl Prediction

What Is The Meaning of Old Wives Tale? The phrase is "an old wives' tale". In that phrase "wives" is used in its older meaning of "women". It does not imply married women. When a person describes something as "an old wives' tale" they are saying that it cannot be believed.

An old wives' tale is an story or piece of information that has been passed down from generation to generation, and which has no factual basis. Based on Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable defines: "Old wives' tale, An. Legendary lore or a story usually involving the marvelous and only accepted by the credulous."  
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All it means is that it is a different way of saying something that the older generation (e.g your grandparents) used to tell one another tips and special ways on something. Like in the past (and present), when people knew that they were coming down with an illness, like flu or cold, and they had a sore throat; they would poor a beechams powder thing (the thing you dissolve in water to soothe your throat) down in the back of your throat and it would conquer the effects of flu. I would tell you why it reverses the effect but that's a whole different story.

One of the old wives' tales for predicting your baby's gender has to do with the way that you are carrying your baby. In this particular old wives' tale, if you are carrying your baby low, it is predicted that your baby's gender will be male. If you are carrying high, then, it is predicted that your baby's gender will be female. Of course, in reality, the way that you are carrying your baby has nothing to do with your baby's gender, but rather the muscle and tone of your uterus. 
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The next old wives' tale that can be used to predict your baby's gender is cravings. It is said that the particular food cravings you have are caused by the gender of your baby. So, craving chocolate or other sweets during pregnancy would mean that you are going to have a girl, whereas if you crave sour things like lemons your will have a boy. Of course, pregnancy cravings have more to do, in reality, with a combination of nutritional needs and psychological factors.

Another old wives' tale uses your husband's weight gain to predict your baby's gender. If your husband gains weight, you will be having a girl. If he doesn't gain weight, you'll be having a boy.
Old Wives Tales About Baby Gender - Boy or Girl Prediction 
Some old wives' tales used for predicting your baby's gender may even have been thought to be scientific at one time. For example, it was thought that your baby's heartbeat could be used to predict your baby's gender. It was thought that a heart rate on the higher end meant a girl, and at the lower end it meant a boy. Medical research has proved this one to be an old wives' tale, as well.

My conclusion? Well, in my opinion some of them work some of them don't. But most of them are really just coincidences. One of my friends took a lot of old wives tail quizzes and the Chinese gender thingy and everything said boy but she have had 5 ultrasounds and they all say girl. But I won’t really know for sure until the baby gets here. She's 40 weeks pregnant with baby.

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