The Biggest Pregnancy Myths Debunked by Expert Linda Geddes

Photo Credit: Simon & Schuster There are all kinds of crazy things people claim to know about pregnancy. Do some foods help you induce labour? Is it really possible to know the sex of your child based on the shape of your belly? Linda Geddes, award-winning journalist and science reporter, explores the most common baby myths and questions from parents-to-be in the new book Bumpology: The Myth-Busting Pregnancy Book for Curious Parents-To-Be, out this month from sister company Simon & Schuster. Here are the top five pregnancy myths debunked to help calm any parent-to-be. Related: Jessica Seinfeld’s Roasted Eggplant And Cherry Tomato Recipe The shape of your bump can predict the gender of your child Women who carry high and all upfront are expecting boys, while a low, wide bump is a sign of a girl – or so says the folklore. But when Janet DiPietro of Johns Hopkins University investigated this old wives tale she found no correlation between the shape of a woman’s bump and the gender of the child developing inside it. Indeed, in most cases the pregnant woman and the investigator couldn’t agree on what shape the woman’s bump should be classified as. But not all old wives tales surrounding the baby’s gender are so easily dismissed. For example bad morning sickness can provide a clue – women whose morning sickness is so bad that they have to be admitted into hospital (a condition called hyperemesis gravidarum) are statistically more likely to be carrying a g...
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