How did you carry your bump.... and ....
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Topic: How did you carry your bump.... and ....
Posted By: peanut butter
Subject: How did you carry your bump.... and ....
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 9:43pm
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What did you have?
you know the old wives tales about carrying high, low, in front etc meaning a boy or a girl.....well I'm curious to know what people have had. I am carrying all out the front and quite low....wonder what that will mean (I know, i know, probably nothing) worth a laugh 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 9:45pm
| DH now swears that if you get a bigger butt it is a boy and if not then it is a girl...has been spot on so fa!!! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 9:52pm
How did I carry my bump? Badly 
JK, with Maya I just got fat all over, with the gremlins I carried all in front and really, really high (2/3 of my bump was above my belly button  )-------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 10:09pm
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Hell all I can remember is me having a big bump. Now hubby wants to see the first scan. At 5 weeks he was able to tell me it was a girl. And so far with all our friends he saw the first scan and was able to tell from that and what the heart rate was. And wasnt wrong yet.
I say just damn good luck so far. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 10:26pm
I've been sooooo lucky....my arse is the last place I ever gain weight and I havent gained any weight there with this pregnancy.....I know it sounds good to have an arse that doesnt get big....but when your top half does, you kinda wish the bottom would get bigger to even it out 
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Bombshell wrote:Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 10:27pm
so if I PM you my scan, he could give his predictions????? which one 12 week or 20 week |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 10:29pm
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I am carrying low but not too much out the front, no weight on anywhere other than bump (but was big to begin with) and it is a girl.
At antenatal tonight we were comparing bumps and genders and there was no similarity whatesoever between those carrying one gender compared to the other, they were all different shapes and sizes! -------------  
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 10:32pm
Ah bugger!!! thats no fun....I was conducting a totally non quadruple blind, unscientific, peer unreveiwed study here.....anecdotes are fine
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Posted By: MyMinis
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 6:41am
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with Haleigh I carried around, so my butt and hips got huge, my bump was big but not overly big.
This time round Im all bump, gained no weight anywhere other than in my bump poor things got no fat this time to support it lol we are expecting a boy this time. my bump is low (well now it is hehe) and out to the front. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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http://tweetytweety85.bebo.com - bebo |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 7:47am
| I've gained in my butt, hips, thighs and my bump feels big and it's a boy (had 2 scans that confirmed this) and his heartrate is not what the old wives tales would call a boys heartrate. It's quite high. |
Posted By: thunderwolves
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:09am
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I just looked like I have stuffed a basketball up my top, I have this perfectly round bump, I was quite low, and had a boy. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:25am
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hehehe i looked like i had stashed a basketball under my top too - so i was told on numerous occasions.
So; out front & down low = male for me. This time is similar but my ball is smaller & apparently another male ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:28am
| both times up high and and out the front, and both were boys. i was always worried that i would never look pregnant cause i am a large person anyway, but you could def tell. |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:29am
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Oh, I forgot the heart rate thing - my bubs heartrate has been around 130 - 140ish most time and she is still a girl! -------------
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 9:24am
Can sent both. But he usually has done it with the earlier one. He also going to ask what the heartrate was. And in SA you usually get a scan at 8 weeks and the heartrate from that. Hey he has a 50% chance of being correct here. lol. I just think it was luck all the way so far to be honest with you. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 9:32am
my bumps both looked the same. if you look at both pics i had taken of the 2, you would think they were the same bump! one was a breech boy and the other was a head down girl 
heartrates were always within 1 or 2 beats of each other at the same week stage too! 144-150bpm------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 9:43am
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I carried high and out front was all baby didn't really put weight on anywhere else we had a boy heaps of people though we were going to have a girl though because of the way I was carrying. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 9:44am
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NAH i dont beleive those old wives tales!! i havnt put on any weight except for my bump and its all out the front!! and im carrying a boy plus im also carrying really high which is meant to mean girl but nop def a boy!
When i was pregga with Bay i didnt put on any extra blub and i carrying down real low. My sis carried low but put on tonnes!!! of weight everywhere!! and she had a boy. I went through all these old wives tales when i first got pregnant and wasnt able to find any truth to them! if anything they were all the opposite!! Oh i forgot to say that my MW was so sure that bubs was a girl as his heart rate has always been between 150-160bpm!! but nop hes a boy just an active one! 
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 9:52am
| I carried all out front, quite high, and like a basketball. I put on a small bit of weight in my thighs and butt, but not much - I only really noticed when it was gone that it had been there in the first place! My theory is..... and this is just my theory..... With boys you carry out front like a basket ball, and with girls you carry all the way round. I've been about 80% accurate with my guesses so far of friends bumps. |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 9:56am
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I carried all out front both times, but Ella was high and I put on a lot more weight, Benjy was low and it was all baby weight. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 10:27am
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Old wives tales to determine gender drive me nuts.
I was told a million different things by a million different people... "oh, you are carring low aren't you?" "wow, so high still" "definitely a girl" "definitely a boy" I wanted to tell them all to feck off. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I carried low (compared to a friend's bump anyway, who was super high) and all out the front. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 10:44am
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My bump was HUGE and I carried quite low throughout the whole pregnancy.
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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 1:26pm
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I'm all out front, like a basketball up my top, and its low now that hes dropped but as I'm short I think it was pretty high to begin with. No one else thinks I've put weight on anywhere else ... but (haha, Bombshell) my butt and thighs are definitely bigger ... and I'm having a boy. (hubby reckons they just can't tell as my tummy and b**bs are so much bigger!! )
Oh - and the heartrate thing was wrong for me too at the start but is now sometimes right! So I wouldn't go by that. ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:20pm
I think the way I carry babies is more to do with my own body actually. I have a suspected retroverted uterus (tilts back) and carry my babies quite 'close' ie towards the back. I think I have always carried slightly low. Definiteyl lower than what Emma said anyway 
Heart rates... it works for us. Apparently at about 12 weeks the rates can be much the same but after 20 weeks, they settle. 140-160 is considered a girl, 120-140 is considered a boy. (I think that's right.) Keep in mind whether baby was awake (active) or asleep at the time the rate was recorded. ------------- |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:41pm
I wonder if I have something like that... would that effect the fundal height measurements the midwife does? While I say I carried straight out front, I'm not sure all 4.26kgs was out front - midwife was worried about growth and sent me for scan, where she measured 9lbs at 38 weeks. Ya think it's a retroverted uterus??? (Still seeking explanation for this after 2.5 years!!) Might put this in seperate thread actually. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:43pm
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This is me as well. Also the heartheart thing is so not true. Josh was consistantly above 150 beats and hes def a boy. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:08pm
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I carry all out the front, like I've shoved a basketball up my top, and it looks like all baby but my butt and thighs beg to differ!
With Kiya (3.54kg/7lb 13 girl)I carried neither high or low! My bump was exactly in the middle... my midwife found it so funny. With Josiah (3.18kg/7lb boy) I carried low. With Xavier (4.02kg/8lb 14 boy) I carried in the middle again. Oh, and all three had approx the same heartbeat rate at the same stage. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:36pm
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I had a small, tidy bump down low and had a girl. I stopped weighing myself at 12Kgs on (around 5mths pregnant) so assume I put on 18ish but people say I didn't look much bigger so they don't believe it was that much. I lost it all in the first 2 or 3 weeks so it was probably fluid etc. Most of the weight was on my lower half and the bump itself was really firm. I carried really low the whole time and at one of the scans the sonographer actually jokingly asked if the baby even had a head as it was so low that they couldn't see it! ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Skyflame
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 5:49pm
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Everyone thought I was having a girl as I guess I was carrying reasonably high, heart beat was high as well, even Midwife thought it was a girl. But Caleb is def a boy, I personally thought I was carrying pretty much in the middle but cant really tell,but pretty evenly distributed weight I think. I thought my bump was big but it was small compared to a friend of mine due at the end of june.
I have put on weight on my thighs though, and a little bit in the butt. |
Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 7:47pm
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I carried DD all out front- didn't put weight on anywhere else and she was really high. This time I have put on weight all over and am carrying really low- but I haven't eaten nearly as strictly as I did with DD (with her I was a health nut) so don't know if thats made a difference. Guess we'll soon find out! ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:02pm
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I carried all out the front (like a basketball up my top) and was quite high...girl. Her heartbeat was about 130 - 140 most times ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Mikaela
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:23pm
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I'm currently carrying all in front and really high. About 2/3 of my bump is above my belly button. And as far as we know it's a boy ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com"> 
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:41pm
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I carried out front and down low (only have stretch marks from the bottom of my bump, such a lil' fat head! lol), all weight was baby stuff and her heartbeat was 150 - 155bpm
I did most of the old wives tests and all said boy including "boys are more active" I ended up with imflamed rib cartige LOL I even "knew" I was having a boy (couldn't find out at scans) She's definitely a GIRL  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 10:07pm
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Mum is usually right when she does a bump feel - she is an old midwife (differnt to todays ones) and a nurse...so far she has like a 95% success rate -
altho she got Rackhells totally wrong so far - said a boy and scans say a girl!, and she told a friend she was having a boy a few months back who didnt beleive her and friend was stunned when a baby boy popped out last week!!! LMAO!!! |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 11:10am
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Jack= high and didn't get as big out the front and put on weight sort of on my lower back (lovehandles?) and my ass
This one who is a girl by scans is way more out the front and low down. With Jack I didn't really eat that much and pretty good food this time ive been eating so much chocolate and ice cream but have only put on the same amount of weight. |
Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 7:46pm
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I carried high and had a girl, my friend who was pregnant at the same time carried low and she had a girl too. ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |
Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 7:49pm
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Oh and I was "pointy" (definitely a boy) and she had no morning sickness (definitely a boy) and we both assumed that we were having a boy (definitely a boy).... I think my comment was when people said "Oh you're having a boy, I carried like that *nod*" (I wanted a girl so bad I was NOT in the mood to listen to that bollocks!). I usually said "Let's hope like hell it's a baby or it is going to be an interesting labour". ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |