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Super-duper-stitions

I was doing a bit of reading about sympathy pregnancy, where a husband exhibits pregnancy symptoms when his partner is pregnant, and came across this quote:

Changes in sexual activity, shifts in social priorities, time off work, or the arrival of a mother-in-law for a potentially stressful extended visit may also contribute.

The part about the mother-in-law cracked me up!

I love my mum but she’s certainly got some weird ideas (mostly old wive’s tales) that I don’t agree with and we often end up arguing.

Wanna know some of those weird ideas?

In addition to her latest bit of advice as mentioned in Baby Update at 17 Weeks, she tells me:

• Don’t watch scary movies during pregnancy to avoid having an uncute baby (!)
• Hang pictures of random cute babies in your bedroom to encourage your baby to be cute (!)
• Eat sesame seeds and oil often during pregnancy to make the birth easier.
• Don’t eat over ripe bananas soon after giving birth to make your next one easier…
• It’s important to keep your head warm after birth, even if it means wearing a beanie inside during summer for several weeks.
• Only eat hot soups and other hot meals after birth to stay healthy. Screw that! It’ll be summer and I’m hanging out for sushi and ham sandwiches!
• Don’t get caught in the rain or you’ll get a headache if not a cold.
• Make sure your clothes cover your belly when it’s windy or cold, or else you’ll get a stomach ache.
• Don’t wash your hair during your period or you’ll get dark spots on your face.
• Wearing jandals will result in bad circulation.
• Stretching in the morning makes you taller. I did this growing up and I’m still just 5ft tall!
• Being patted on your head makes you dumb.
• Eat all your rice or else each grain left over means a pimple on your future husband’s face – hehe! The hubby rarely has pimples – lots of moles though.

So many superstitions!

Tags: pregnancy, superstition

3 Comments to Super-duper-stitions

Ela
June 25, 2009

I hope you don’t mind me stopping by and reading your posts…I somehow feel like I’m walking in on a private conversation between friends. I just had to comment because your post made me LOL – literally. That is great motherly advice, good thing you wrote them down so you pass them onto your children :)

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Chickie Little
June 26th, 2009 at 9:59 am

Oh course I don’t mind! It only sounds like a private conversation between friends because they’re my only fans… hehe… :/

The more the merrier!

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sarah hannah
June 25, 2009

your mums suggestions on “how to have a cute baby” are awesome! hehe

loving your blog!

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