What are the myths and folklore about choosing the sex of your baby?

I'm not looking to have a baby any time soon, but I'm just interested in the myths that surround being able to control the sex of your baby.


The one I hear most often is having sex before ovulation produces females, while having sex while ovulating or up to three days after ovulation produces males.


Any other ones?|||You mean a superstition, not a myth nor a folklore. Here are some famous superstitions worldwide about how to predict/affect the gender of a baby in the womb:





*If a mother鈥檚 feet are colder when she鈥檚 pregnant, it鈥檚 a boy; if her feet are warmer, it鈥檚 a girl.





*Suspend a gold ring over a pregnant belly. If it swings to the sides, it's a boy; if it swings in a circle, it's a girl.





*If the male partner wears socks during sex, the baby will be a boy. If he's completely naked, the baby will be a girl.





*Check the baby bump. If she is carrying low, then she's having a boy. If she carries high, then she can expect a girl. If she carries in front then it's a boy. If she carries wide in the middle then it's a girl.





*Eating spicy or salty food during the pregnancy would result in having a boy. Eating sweet foods means it's a girl.


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You DO realize most of these are absurd and simply fictitious, right? There is no way to affect a fetus's gender while in the womb, unless of course there the conception is by artificial insemination.|||The main one is, "If you're choosing the sex of your baby, you must be adopting."





Generally, it's a bad idea to strongly prefer one sex over the other ahead of time simply because you can't control the outcome. Supposedly, many mothers are disappointed in their very own child - even if the child is "perfect" - because the child is not of the desired sex.





Statistically, older men are more likely to produce girls, younger men more likely to produce boys - but the statistical difference is so small that it's hardly worth mentioning.





- Jim|||It's all fake you can't eat anything that will make you have a male or female baby when my mum was pregnant they told her to eat cheese if she wanted girls it's all fake. She hates cheese and she still got three girls. That's just my E.G.|||Eating more apples will make you have a female