is it a girl?

One of my favorite new pregnancy things is predicting the baby’s gender through old wives tales. Here are the few that would point to Baby Flo-Bix being an XX:

• You had morning sickness early in pregnancy
• Your baby’s heart rate is at least 140 beats per minute
• You are craving sweets
• You are craving fruit
• You are moodier than usual during pregnancy
• Your face breaks out more than usual
• You refuse to eat the heel of a loaf of bread
• Your pillow faces south when you sleep
• Your urine is a dull yellow color
• You hang your wedding ring over your belly and it moves from side to side
• You add your age at the time of conception and the number for the month you conceived and the sum is an odd number

Hmm…. Interesting. Another predictor was my acupuncturist who told me that in Chinese medicine you can tell the sex based on which pulse (left or right wrist) is stronger. Both my acupuncturists told me independently that they thought the Flo-Bix was a girl.

We’re still not dying to find out but we do think it is is funny to see all this speculation. My favorite is when people are SURE it’s one gender or another. Like Jacob’s family and my co-worker Laura KNOW this baby is a boy. Intuition, I guess. As for me, I don’t have a hunch, an inkling, a guided dream, a feeling. I got nothing.

But that’s fine by me. I know some people like to know so that they can name the baby and it makes them feel closer. I have a different feeling about this. While we’re super excited for our new friend, we’re also cherishing the moments we have left for just the two of us. I have said countless times lying in the bed after the snooze has been hit, “Enjoy this moment, because we have very few of these left.” I really love time with my husband and in some ways I will mourn our life together. Actually, I probably won’t have time to mourn. And I’ll be too tired to remember anything before Aug 21. But right now I’m just enjoying every second we’ve got. There will be time for baby soon enough.