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Myths about pregnancy bumps

In these days of ultrasound scans it's hard to understand that 50 years ago there was no sure way to establish the gender of your unborn child. 

  

Considering how important it could be (think Henry VIII here), plenty of traditional methods arose on how to tell whether an expectant mom was carrying a boy or girl.  Read these 5 myths about pregnancy bumps -you may have a dim memory of older family members talking about them, or know some myths that we haven't mentioned.

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(Joanne Hart, Health24, September 2011)

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