Gender Predicting…the Old Fashioned Way

Predicting Baby's Gender - image courtesy of BabyCenter.com

My wife is 19 weeks pregnant today, and this afternoon we’re going to her doctor for an ultrasound to (hopefully) determing the baby’s gender. [NOTE: our fingers are crossed that the baby’s legs won’t be…]

That’s the kind of people we are – we don’t like surprises and we even peek and partially unwrap Christmas presents to alleviate the suspense. Don’t judge us!

Anyway, before we try the scientific method of knowing the baby’s sex we decided to try a completely unscientific method.

BabyCenter.com offers a completely unreliable tool called its Chinese Gender Predictor. Here’s how the web site describes the tool:

Is it a boy or girl? Give our Chinese gender chart a try. Legend says that the gender chart is more than 700 years old and was discovered in a royal tomb. It predicts your baby’s sex based on your Chinese lunar age at the time you got pregnant and the Chinese lunar month in which you conceived. (Don’t worry, we’ll calculate those for you!)

There’s no scientific proof that the Chinese gender calendar works, but since there are only two choices – boy or girl – about 50 percent of the time it should make the right call. At the very least, it’s entertaining!

How can you argue with those odds????

So, we entered the baby’s due date and my wife’s birthday into the online gender calculator and the unscientific, completely unreliable results came back that the baby in my wife’s belly is a boy.

To validate this random, unscientific result, I decided to test the output using my data by entering my birthday. I know I’m not the “mom” but I did contribute 50% of the genetic code for our baby so that’s got to count for something, right???

So when I entered the baby’s due date and my birthday into the online gender calculator – the software program predicts that our next child will undoubtedly be a girl.  [NOTE: this little exercise is strangely reminiscent of my conversations with another online software platform known as Cleverbot.]

There you go – we know for sure that we are having either a boy or a girl!

Science marches on….

Question: What are some other surefire-to-be-wrong ways to predict a baby’s gender?

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Tor Constantino is a former journalist, bestselling author and current PR guy who lives near Washington, DC. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies, CBS Radio, Clear Channel Radio, ABC-TV and CBS-TV affiliates. He has authored his first non-fiction book “A Question of Faith”  and he blogs regularly at The Daily ReTORt.

 

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2 thoughts on “Gender Predicting…the Old Fashioned Way”

  1. I have to say I am very excited for you and your family Tor! Babies make you realize how much joy there can be in life. If you really want to know, I can ask an old Italian lady I know who has the gift of telling you what the sex of a baby is. I would say she is about 85 percent correct but with only two choices I don’t think that is so hot. LOL

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