thread: Can you really tell by the shape?!?

  1. #1
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    Question Can you really tell by the shape?!?

    DH and I decided not to find out our baby's gender. From early on, everyone would have an opinion as to if I was carrying a boy or a girl. Now I've only got 4 1/2 weeks to go, everyone is saying boy.

    So, I was wondering, is there any truth to the shape determining what gender the baby will be?!?

    Celsie. xoxox

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    Absolutely none! LOL. With Lindsay and Paige, I had the same shape belly - pointy out front and with Erin it was more rounded. I think I had the same shape with Lindsay and Paige because they were both really long babies and fit in there differently.

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    Dec 2006
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    I don't think so. Everyone told me I was having a girl and I had a boy.

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    No truth, just an old wives tale

    I looked exactly the same with both of mine and I have one of each. Actually I looked SO much the same that I've named all the files of my belly pictures as the date they were taken so I know which baby they were

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    Hi Celsie

    Looking at your pic in your sig your belly looks the same shape as mine and I'm having a boy. Before we found out my mum's guess was that I was having a boy, not going off my bump, but by the fact that I looked really square from behind at the hips.

    Not long til you find out!!

    August x

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    Thanks for your replies girls. I really appreciate it. I guess I just won't know till this little one comes.

    Celsie. xoxox

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    I have never known my sister to be wrong!! She can tell just by looking at you. I have no idea. With my last 3 pregnancies she has said I am having a girl... And if anyone wants to know what they are having I direct them to her...

    Tanya

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    Really Tanya?!? That's an amazing gift!!! If she ever happens to be near your computer, feel free to show her my photo, I'd LOVE to know what she says.

    Celsie. xoxox

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    Shall do Celsie Not long to wait tho!

    Tanya

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    I'm really good at guessing...for the last 5 years I have never been wrong. Every guess has been right. My sis is expecting number 2 and everyone wanted her to have a boy. I did too but told her that she was having a girl. She had a scan and found out it's a girl.

    by the way, you're having a boy

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    My mum always says if it's a girl, you carry it in your bottom (in other words you get bigger in the bottom, not just the tummy) and if it's a boy, you carry all out in front, and you can't usually tell from the back that you're pregnant.

    She reckons she's 90% right, but I am not convinced. She couldn't tell me for certain with Charlie!

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    Going by Sushees mums theory, I would have had a boy! but I definately had a girl.
    Everyone told me my belly shape was a boy belly.

    Shape of belly doesnt really indicate anything. I think it would have more todo with a whole lot of things such as your body shape, location of placenta and bubs position.

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    I have never known my sister to be wrong!! She can tell just by looking at you. I have no idea. With my last 3 pregnancies she has said I am having a girl... And if anyone wants to know what they are having I direct them to her...

    Tanya
    I am like your sister Tanya........I can't remeber the last time I didn't get one right!! My friends calls me the supreme baby guesser!!

    Celsie, I don't know if it can work the same without seeing you irl but I looked at your pic and it said boy to me.