Heartrates and babies gender!

My MW told us that the heart beats that sound like horse hooves 'clip clip clip' are girls and the 'doof doof' beats are boys.

She did stress that it was an old wives tale but she said based on that we were going to have a girl and we did. She made her 'prediction' every time she monitored the heart rate - so right through the pregnancy.

She did it for a friend of mine too and correctly predicted she would have a girl as well.

at the moment our little sprog is racing along at 161bpm, was this fast at the 12.5 week scan and was going between 150-160 at the midwives at 13.5 weeks and using my doppler this morning, I worked out it was still 160bpm.

Daniels was always fast, he was meant to be a girl according to that rule but obviously isn't lol

Paris was always fast, and well, she was a girl.

Ayja, was mostly around 140s, and still very clearly a girl so didn't quite work for her.

Mostly babies heart rates are usually about double an adults average heart rate, right up until after birth, so usually anywhere between 120 - 160s is ok. Occasionally some babies do have a lower heart rate around birth and sit around the 100 mark, but mostly it's once they get older (post-birth) that their heart rates change.

mum2paris wrote: Mostly babies heart rates are usually about double an adults average heart rate, right up until after birth, so usually anywhere between 120 - 160s is ok. Occasionally some babies do have a lower heart rate around birth and sit around the 100 mark, but mostly it's once they get older (post-birth) that their heart rates change.

Yup, and the earlier you are, the faster the heartbeat will be, on dating scans it's normal for the heartrate to be between 150-170, then it slows a little as you get further along.

I have no idea what Maya's was, the gremlins were always around 150 (and always within a few beats of each other which meant working out which one was which was a nightmare!) and this one is hanging out around 150 too.

both of mine were the same at each stage.

Interesting, Lauren was a clipity clop type heart beat and yes she is a girl!

My m/w swore from 12 weeks onwards that I was having a girl, right up to and all the way through my labour she still swore I was having a girl, but I was adament I was having a boy for some reason. And guess what out popped a girl, she was soooooo right.

Actually I have my maternity notes right here on my desk, this was her heartrate tracking through pregnancy @ 18wks - 152, @ 30wks - 152, @ 32wks - 140, @ 36wks - 142.

I was always under the understanding anything under 125 indicated more chance of a boy, anything over 140 indicated more chance of a girl. I could be wrong though!

i believed in this heartrate theory as it was true for everyone i knew that had babies.....that's partly why i was 95% sure charli was a boy.

the whole way through my pregnancy with her, the heartrate was exactly the same or 1-2 beats higher than jack was at the same 'age' which was 130-145. mostly sat around the 140 mark

as you can see, charli came out a girl
so i wouldn't take too much notice of the heartrates

It doesn't work for everyone but it has for most people I know. It's something like 110-130 boys and 140-160 girls. Or was the boys 120-140? I can't remember. Anyhow, all mine were 150-155ish for most of the time (and definitely towards the end). You can't really count it until after 16 or so weeks.

Hmm, I've been wondering if I'm having a boy as the hb last this week was 134 and with my daughter it was in the 150s from this stage on