# Predict the sex of my unborn child! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470 "2003-09-29T13:39:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/1 "2003-09-29T13:39:42Z")
Predict the sex of my unborn child and you’ll get…well…the satisfaction of knowing your prediction was correct. Me personally, I think it’s a girl but I’m not sure. We don’t know yet and we won’t know for a while now (I’m only in week 14.5 or so right now). The last time we had an ultrasound the baby was only about \<\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\>, making it fairly difficult to determine the sex. Well that and the radiologist couldn’t get a picture of the kid cuz he/she/it was leaping around in there like a little frog. 😃 MetalMaven ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/2 "2003-09-29T13:48:21Z")
I’m guessing it will either be a boy or a girl!! (congratulations) ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/3 "2003-09-29T13:49:59Z")
I say boy. And with your username choice, a boy with a mullet. 😃 Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/4 "2003-09-29T13:53:01Z")
We’ve already got names picked out and if it IS a boy, the name will sort of be mullet-friendly, I think. 😕 But I dunno. Is there ANY name (other than Bubba or Billy Ray or any other double first name combo) that’s mullet friendly? MetalMaven ---
**Author:** ![terd\_ferguson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@terd\_ferguson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terd_ferguson)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/5 "2003-09-29T17:43:17Z")
Cletus ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/6 "2003-09-29T18:15:48Z")
It could be a girl. With a mullet. ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/7 "2003-09-29T18:43:18Z")
What was the heartrate of the baby at your ultrasound?? I’m pretty lousy at guessing the correct sex of unborn babies so whatever I say it’s going to be… go with the opposite. I’ve been wrong with every prediction I’ve ever made… including my own two kids!!! ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/8 "2003-09-29T18:45:15Z")
I’m guessing it’s some kind of half man half monkey creature. Well it will be if those experiments Ive been running on you in your sleep are working. 😉 Congradulations BTW ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/9 "2003-09-29T23:54:13Z")
> [@](#): > > What was the heartrate of the baby at your ultrasound?? It was around 118-120 beats per minute, I think. I was too excited watching the baby jump around in its little sac there to pay much attention to what the radiologist said. MetalMaven ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/10 "2003-09-30T00:35:20Z")
**It was around 118-120 beats per minute, I think.** Boy, definitely. Unless … were you and your husband big babies? Do you have gestational diabetes? In that case your baby might just be a girl that’s gonna be huge when she’s born. ---
**Author:** ![Xanthas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@Xanthas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xanthas)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/11 "2003-09-30T02:13:34Z")
Robot with a human brain. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/12 "2003-09-30T02:49:33Z")
Cogenitor. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/13 "2003-09-30T04:34:40Z")
You didn’t give enough information. Are you carrying it high or low? Is it round like a basketball? Do your testicles itch? If you’re suffering from the last one, you probably aren’t pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/14 "2003-09-30T04:41:14Z")
Hermaphrodite. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/15 "2003-09-30T04:51:22Z")
Spring roll. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/16 "2003-09-30T05:05:13Z")
You mean heart rate can correspond to the sex of the baby? Hmm… Well MetalMaven I found a few sites that explain some of the folklore according to it [General ways to predict](http://www.parentsplace.com/pregnancy/getready/articles/0,,239161_432032,00.html) [Chinese Gender calculator](http://www.obfocus.com/calculators/gender.htm) which if you click more sites about gender prediction… well it has more sites about it! 😛 One that I know is just wishful thinking is the ‘You hang your wedding ring over your belly, it moves in circles for a boy or side to side for a girl’… Something with what you wish/think it might be causes your hand to vibrate subtly in a way that causes it to either move in a circle or a side to side. I learned it years ago as a magic trick to tell whether someone is thinking about a boy or a girl. Strangely enough I keep thinking girl, everyone else says I’m having a girl, and most of the sites agree I’m going to have a girl… if I have a boy they are going to be proved all wrong lol. (I’m going to be surpriseed actually, but I have names picked out for boy or girl. It was fairly easy I found.) ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/17 "2003-09-30T06:00:45Z")
**You mean heart rate can correspond to the sex of the baby? Hmm…** It depends. Boy babies tend to be bigger than girl babies. The smaller the creature, the faster the heartbeat. If the baby’s heartrate is in the 160s, chances are it’s a girl: OR it could be a small boy. OTOH, if the kid’s rate is in the 120s, you’ve either got a boy or a giant baby girl in there. It’s just a rule of thumb, there are exceptions. My OB told me to look at what me and DH weighed when we were born and we’d have a good idea of what our kid would weigh. That turned out to be true for us. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/18 "2003-09-30T06:41:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \* > \*\* > [General ways to predict](http://www.parentsplace.com/pregnancy/getready/articles/0,,239161_432032,00.html) > [Chinese Gender calculator](http://www.obfocus.com/calculators/gender.htm) \*\* I decided to crunch a few numbers. Since I was born on August 30, I was almost certainly conceived in November (month 11) when my mom was 23. The Chinese calculator correctly pegs me as “B[oy]”, while the numbers add up to an even 34, which jibes with the “38 fun ways” page’s assertion that I was destined to be male. Then again, my sister (conceived almost exactly two years after me) apparently should have been a guy, as not only does 25 + 11 = 36, but the relevant chart axes intersect in a blue space. My brothers also “come out even”, but the Chinese chart suggests the younger one was supposed to have been female. My dad’s sex was missed by the “odd-even” method but hit by the Asian algorithm. Mom’s info skews “male” by both methods. So within my immediate family, each approach succeeds in exactly 3 of 6 instances. In other words, the same as via a coin flip or any other approach governed by RANDOM CHANCE! :rolleyes: For what it’s worth, I’ll venture a guess that **MetalMaven** is carrying a girl, as is **Obsidian Flutterby**. Now the only question is WHICH of you will actually have a son… ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/19 "2003-09-30T11:23:46Z")
uh… heads? ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470/20 "2003-09-30T12:32:07Z")
After reading everyones above posts and spending several minutes pondering the “facts”, I have narrowed it down to two choices: Its going to be a girl or its going to be a boy. Congratulations, and I hope all is well and you have a safe and happy pregnancy. No matter what the gender of your child is, you will always love your baby. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-the-sex-of-my-unborn-child/204470.md?page=2)