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Here are some unscientific, old-school methods for figuring out if it’s a boy or a girl. 12 old wives’ tales about having a boy: You didn’t experience morning sickness in early pregnancy.
Talia becomes pregnant and, after nine months, while still deeply asleep, gives birth to twins—a boy and a girl. One day, the girl cannot find her mother's breast; instead, she begins to suck her finger and draws the flax splinter out. Talia awakens immediately and names her beloved children Sun and Moon, and lives with them in the house.
Their marriage is arranged, and eventually the second wife becomes pregnant. After nine months, while the king is away, the co-wife's "pinonch" assists her labour, and she gives birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. The midwife is bribed to abandon the children in the desert and replace them for puppies.
In a Kol tale translated to German with the title Die Zwillinge ("The Twins"), a king has seven wives. One day, the seventh wife gives birth to a boy and a girl, who are taken by the jealous co-queens and cast in a clay pit, while they replace them for a stone and a broom. A clay potter finds the children and raises them.
These fun legends and old wives' tales just may offer insight on gender predictions.
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The servant becomes pregnant, and a wise man predicts she will bear a son with gold on his forehead. When it is time to give birth, the pregnant servant is secluded in a special house, and bears twins, a girl and a boy. The king's first wife bribes an old woman to kill the children, but she only casts them in the water in a basket.
Ashley, who is 19 weeks pregnant with a girl, teases that her mother-in-law manifested a grandchild. “She was asking like every week, ‘Are you having a baby soon?’” Ashley says.