Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Pregnancy

Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

Baby heartbeat- any truth in galloping horses for girls/ trains for boys?

10 replies

GYo · 14/10/2008 08:25

When the MW heard the HB last week she mentioned that the sound of the HB can indicate the sex. Think its all abit far fetched but thought I'd get opinions here!

When she did it, was definately a gallop but since we've heard it on the doppler as steam trains!

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
MamaG · 14/10/2008 08:26

I think its bollocks

GYo · 14/10/2008 08:28

LOL MamaG - wondered that myself.... thought it was odd for the MW to insist it was a girl based on the HB speed and sound!

We didnt even want to know!

OP posts:
monkeymonkeymonkey · 14/10/2008 08:29

Its nonsense.

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 14/10/2008 08:29

She'll be right 50% of the time.

daizydoo · 14/10/2008 08:37

My mums a midwife and she has told me in the past that baby boys tend to have a slower heartbeat (I think I've got it the right way round!!), but I don't think you'd be able to tell after one hearing...

Flossish · 14/10/2008 08:38

DD's was dramatically faster than ds's so that works for us!

nulgirl · 14/10/2008 08:48

when my midwife (very old school) heard the heartbeat she said that she was sure it was going to be a baby girl. Imagine my surprise at a scan at 35 weeks when they told me it was a boy

SazzlesA · 14/10/2008 08:54

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

dan39 · 14/10/2008 23:41

ITS ALL NONSENSE....the only odds of being right with any of these guessing schemes are the 50% ones!!!

horseshoe · 15/10/2008 21:33

Ive got to be honest and say it was right with mine. Both girls were like a "d-dum,d-dum,d-dum" while my son was a "sh-shoe, sh-shoe, sh-shoe" noise. LOL

in hospital loads with all of them and heard it alot and it never changed

New posts on this thread. Refresh page