Baby's heartbeat high - is it a girl - or is this just old wives tale??!!

[Babylovesmuffins]

At my last two a/n appointments my baby's heartbeat has been quite high - 158, then 150.

A friend who is due in a couple of weeks told me that hers was also high and that it is medically proven to mean it's a girl, as boys' heartbeats are slightly slower!!

Any truth in this???

I have another a/n appointment in 1 hour so we'll see what the reading is then

Old wives' tale - ds' hearbeat was usually around 150...

Old wives' tale.

I've even seen some proper research on this where they proved there was no correlation, but can't find the link at the moment.

It's a surprisingly popular belief, though.

It's not medically proven that heart rate relates to the sex. But my midwives seemed to believe in it, and my dds both had high heart rates.

not true = baby's heartbeat fluctuates all the time depending on whether they are sleeping or whirling around etc

none of this old wives tales are medically proven, AFAIK....

they are good fun, a scan gives a better indication !

Ah, found it .

Oh that's good! (Well not that I don't want a girl IYSWIM??)

It's just I started out the pregnancy totally convinced I was having a boy and when I heard that story I thought it must be a girl, so it's nice to know that it's back to being a surprise again!!

my sil was told by a midwife about this, she said that based on the heartbeat, she was having a girl (sil was keen to know the sex of the baby but the legs were crossed at scan). it wasn't a girl, she had a boy.

i have a colleague who used to be a madwife that will guess the sex with the heartbeat.. she's been right every single time!! (witch!!)

but, i think she has a talent for it... we've tried guessing the sex based on heartbeats (usin the theory that girls are faster) and have been wrong a few times now!!!!

Thanks Lemonaid. That's a fab link! It's also interesting that the heartrate tends to decrease slightly from very early pg - which may explain why it was 158 at my 16 wk appointment and then 150 at 19 wks...

but then again I was probably just rushing around the first time and should stop reading into things too much!!!

Thanks ladies
x

I was told it's how the heartbeat sounds, not the speed. My mw told me I was expecting a boy as heartbeat sounded liek a steam train. Girls sound like galloping horses (apparently) SO I was convinced child no. 2 would be another boy - mw kep hearing the train sound. THen, while lying in the labour ward waiting to push, when mw did teh heartbeat I heard a galloping horse! Out popped dd!

It isn't medically proven- but it did work for me! All 8 of mine had the 'right' hearbeats..it does depend on if babies sleeping etc.....

My friends 2 boys had fast heartbeats all the time-so it didn;t work for her, they are boys always on the go-dunno if that had anything to do with it....but they can't sit still!

You will need a few readngs before you can get accurate readings...and even then i wouldn;t go out and buy pink or blue clothes!

xx

At my last MW app I asked my MW about this steam train, galloping horses thing, she said that our LO HB sounds like a train but she quickly add that all the babies that have sounded like a train lately have all come out girls, lol, so I don't know, I really would love to know my LO sex for a number of reasons but DH doesn't want to know, which I think is unfair seem as tho it started out that we both really wanted to know the sex!, but still, just have to wait and see!

Well, I've always thought it was a co-incidence so it doesn't prove anything but interestingly, my DS's heartbeat whilst being monitored when having him was generally about 140ish. However, when I was being monitored while in labour with DD, her heartbeat was about the 160's. I remember saying to my exhusband about the myth about this and being totally convinced she was going to be a girl - and she was! As people have said though, I don't think there is any medical back up for this though...

The high low heartbeat thing, I'm not convinced on all 3 of mine have been different every appointment. This one 36+4 today started off at around 155bpm and is now down to 122bpm at last appointment. DS was always really high around the 150-160bpm mark. DD was up and down like a yo yo, so had no idea with her, it was different at every appointment steadily decreasing through out the pregnancy.

Using a hand held doppler though you can get the steam train sound or the horse hoof, depending on the position that you are listening in. I've certainly heard both.

DS's in utero heartbeat was around 160

DD's was 140

make of that what you will

no truth to it checked all research and no evidence either way
i had a tachycardic(sp) baby boy!

i have had two girls and a boy and the heart rate worked for me on all three but just coincidence??? i am not so sure

I have 2 DD's - DD1's heart rate was really fast & DD2's was really slow. Completely led me down the wrong path !

All 3 of mine had very similar heartbeats (around 140ish). I had 2 boys and a girl.

According to my acupuncturist, whether you're having a boy or girl can also affect the mothers pulse rate.

She reckoned she had an almost 100% accuracy with her pregnant clients and was certainly right with me.

hmmmm...!!

Baby's heartrate was 156 today, so back up close to what it was the first time.

I have to say, I have always heard galloping horses!!

I love all these "old wives' tales" - it'll keep me guessing - the needle on the thread thing didn't really work!!

Obviously we don't really want to know the sex yet(otherwise I would found out at my scan 2 weeks ago ) but it's fun guessing in the meantime.