It’s wrong for me, and my little brother! But I guess we’re some of those 7%.
:rolleyes: <----Aimed at the website people, not PinkMarabou.
OK ok, I’m just lazy. Of course ‘beer’ is a catch all but for me ‘beer’ = lager, I drink bitter not beer 
- I put Guinness and other similar brews in the ‘stout’ barrel. If we’re going to get technical I think it’s a porter. Basically I was trying to draw attention to the fact that you couldn’t substitute Guinness with a watery Foster’s or Miller type drink. (should have known you’d catch me out grumble grumble)
PS I think my man’s granny really did used to put a drop of Guinness in his lunchtime bottle to ‘help him sleep’.
What difference does it make if we do or don’t? This isn’t harming my health (or the health of future unborn child) like the not brushing your teeth thing. Some people use different positions to get the child they would like and some people use prayer, some people rely on other things. What harm is done? You’re still trying to procreate and it’s not like the majority of people would throw their kid in the trash if they got what they didn’t want, I certainly wouldn’t.
I don’t really care if the damn thing is correct or not, it’s a stupid little chart with some folklore attached to it and some people will find all their friends and family members match up, some will find the exact opposite. It’s not a big deal to me, I posted it because I thought it was fun and wouldn’t cause panic in the OP’s wife like other things she’s hearing.
I never said it was harmful, but are you really surprised that in a pit thread trashing stupid baby superstitions, the stupid baby superstition you posted got trashed? I would also roll my eyes at anybody who tried to use different positions, prayer or any other meaningless ritual to determine the sex of their baby.
Regardless, it’s not really my business how you and your husband choose to conceive. I hope you get the boy you want, but I also hope you don’t think the chart had jack squat to do with it.
Sorry, but I find the whole “maybe it doesn’t work because we’re close to the edge of a month” to be a type of “magical thinking” that drives me nuts. The birth chart is not 93% accurate - it’s about 50%, just like most other prediction methods. (Look at one of the hospital websites that shows all the babies born in a particular month sometime - it won’t be 93% boys one month and 93% girls the next, but about 50-50 all along.) The chart may be kind of fun if you don’t take it seriously, but the number of people who really believe in these things is phenomenal (and rather depressing).
I hesitate to post in this thread again, lest I look like a terrible uncaring husband. My wife is from mainland China, an ancient culture with many bizarre superstitions. Many of her friends are from various places in Asia as well, not to mention the Chinese message boards she frequents. She is mostly only believes these asian superstitions and ignores the western tales. She wasn’t very superstitious before, but she worries easily and has been a bit paranoid lately.
The worst though are the horror stories. I know that 25% of pregnancies end in miscarriage in the first trimester, because people keep telling us that. Frankly, it doesn’t help when you tell us all the horrible complications your mom’s best friend’s daughter-in-law had. Yes stuff can happen, but right now the doctor tells us things are progressing 100% normally, the same as the vast majority of pregnancies. I guess this makes me a bad husband, but my wife is doing all the work and I just want to help her with the needless piling-on.
BTW, my wife has seen a Chinese chart similar to that one, though the one she used was in Chinese and I think used the Chinese lunar calendar. (It said boy, BTW. We’ll know for sure when we go for her next ultrasound next week.)
FWIW, the birth chart was correct on my sister, wrong on me, and wrong on my nephew.
The thing about announcing your pregnancy is that it bonds you and opens you up to an entire new world. One that so many have been through. And they are excited for you ( or possibly excited to see you get what you richly deserve, you snot nosed little shit.) So excited and probably haven’t evolved at all since their begatting period that they just keep on spewing out the nonsense that their parents and relatives did to them.
It isn’t malicious.
But you have to think about it. Back then, there weren’t ultrasounds …so determining the baby’s sex was a game and superstition… Shit, some women foudn out they were having twins only after the first baby came out. Compared to the blood work test that can tell the mama’s they are pregnant and with how many in the early weeks and the ultra sounds to scope out the little buggers…it is just amazing.
It also can give parents who are carrying a child with defects a chance to mentally prepare themselves for the road ahead ( if they chose that course) and counselling ( which really is something that wasn’t offered 20-30-40 eyars ago. You just went to church and well, there was a buttload of guilt awaiting there…) so they can hit the ground running after the baby is born. Instead of the horrid shock and the months of utter misery and hopelessness. Between advanced science and therapies, disabled kids are going mainstream alot earlier because of intervention.
Now, hell, since my two have been born there are those 3D ultrasounds…that just utterly and completely blew my mind away when we saw our friends baby before he was born. It was mind boggling. Makes me feel robbed with the Rorshack ultrasounds we got. “Oooooooh, this is his face.” " No, that’s a foot."
This isn’t to say that when I was pregnant I was receptive to the buttheads and their bizarre folkloric crapola. I was a regular powder keg of dirty looks at the time.
Kids have mellowed me. I also think I’m running low on the hormone that allows me to give a shit about things like that anymore. It’s like water off a ducks back.
I hope the joy of pregnancy and the wonder of it all is never completely lost due to the technological advances.