If you’re anything at all like me you could not/can’t wait to meet your baby and will need to know as much as you potentially can about them. Unfortunately pregnancy is just one long waiting game and though people will tell you a range of things about your developing child, despite what they may think they don’t have any incredible insight and are pretty much as clueless as you!

Once your bump starts to show, not a week will pass without someone eyeing it knowingly and announcing that you are carrying low so it’s got to be a boy (or high, for a girl). In truth other than ultrasound and amniocentesis, there’s no way to determine the sex of the baby you are carrying.

Babies are carried differently based on their show (breech, vertex, transverse), their position (anterior, posterior), their gestational age and weight, maternal weight and stature and whether or not this is the mother’s first, second, third baby.

Fetal pulse is truly no help either. Heart tones could be heard as early as eight to ten weeks using Doppler technology. Until about 20 weeks, it's not exceptional to have a fetal pulse in the 150 to 160 range. As the child's heart develops and the neurological system matures, the count may fall to between 130 to 140. The ordinary range is 120 to 160, and his/her here rate is probably going to change anyway dependent on how active baby is at the time of being monitored. Some people say that a fast heartbeat rate is a girl, primarily based on the proven fact that women’s heart rates are quicker than men’s. But if this were the case for a unborn child, we would all start out as girls and turn into boys!

Heartburn means hair – Heartburn is common in pregnancy “due to pregnancy hormones slackening the muscles of your oesophagus. And in contrast to belief, it does not mean your baby will be born with a full head of hair! After 2 babies one with a full head of hair and one with not so much I will vouch for this one as I struggled with severe heartburn in BOTH of my pregnancies.

Illness is worse with girls. Like the other gender-related pregnancy myths, this one is usually considered wrong I suffered in both pregnancies and know many of us who failed to suffer at all and there doesn't seem to be any correlation between the illness and the sex of their babies.

Emma Smith is a mother of 2 and writes a retrospective pregnancy blog on PrenatalCareAtHome.com