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15 Old Wives' Tales Doctors Believe

by the editors at Netscape, Posted Aug 2nd 2010 10:22AM

Doctors say that tales are false. Credit: Getty Images
How many pediatricians believe old wives' tales? When asked if 15 old wives' tales were true or false, only 17 percent of the board-certified pediatricians surveyed said all of them ...
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Pregnancy fact or fiction: determining baby's gender

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted May 6th 2008 9:11AM

Guess what, folks--it can't be done. Unless you have a bonafide medium/psychic in your midst, hard science makes it darn near impossible to prove there is a way to determine your baby to be's gender without the aid of one of those scary blood ...
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Pregnancy fact or fiction?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted May 4th 2008 7:41PM

Now that I've found myself plum in the middle of my second pregnancy, I thought it might be interesting to really take a look at all those wives tales we're always being reminded of when we find ourselves in the family way. The first pregnancy for ...
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The fibs moms tell

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 24th 2008 11:58AM

I remember it clearly. When we finally got a TV, my mother repeatedly told us not to sit too close to the telly or we would go blind. Well, according to this site, that's just one of a number of white lies moms tell their kids. It apparently was true ...
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Bananas make baby boys?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Apr 23rd 2008 12:07PM

According to a new study out of Britain's Oxford and Exeter Universities, a woman wishing to conceive a boy child would do well to stock up on bananas. Hold the penis jokes, this isn't about the phallic shape of the fruit, but the potassium in the ...
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Old wives tales and pregnancy: Tell your MIL to shove it!

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Jan 3rd 2007 2:29PM

We've all heard the old wives tales regarding pregnancy. If your butt is too big, it is a boy. If you start to look really ugly, it is a girl...something about the daughter stealing her mother's looks. (In fact, I actually wrote about this topic on ...
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