What is the strangest advice/old wives tales you have/had recieved?

just wondering if anyone recieved bizarre or strange advice tips or old wives tales....like if you crave sweets it a girl etcWhat is the strangest advice/old wives tales you have/had recieved?
Several older women told me that if you crawl over your husband, then your morning sickness would go away and he would have it instead. I tried it for the heck of it, but it didn't work..lol =)What is the strangest advice/old wives tales you have/had recieved?
The greatest thing about old wives tales is probably that they make us laugh, more than discourage or inspire us, there pretty silly , two spoons on a saucer means marriage, and baby one is if you carry low and it is round like a ball it is a boy if you carry all over it is a girl so there is many for _**births marriage and luck and death --





Crow


One's bad,


Two's luck,


Three's health,


Four's wealth,


Five's sickness,


Six is death.
If a baby is unusually fretful and colicky, it's because a witch is after him/her. Put a broomstick across each of your doorways. Someone will come and not step over the broomstick and may ask you to pick it up. That's the witch. Witches can't step over a broomstick. Keeping the broomsticks across the doorways may calm the baby.
Oh wow, with my first i was told not to hold my arms above my head too long because it would cause the baby's cord to wrap around his/her neck and strangle them. I was told that i HAD to sleep on my left side or the baby couldn't breathe. And i was told the crawl over daddy to get rid of morning sickness to and as we all know all of the above is a bunch of bull LOL. Luckily i love to investigate and look up things and i told all the tale bearers i knew better of course they all still assume THEY are correct LOL.
Yea people say going up and down stairs wraps the umbilical cord around the babies neck..... when i asked my doc he laughed in my face.... haha.





I wish crawling over the daddy would have taken the morning sickness away!! LOL





I do like the one about if the mommy becomes uglier and pimply, the daughter is taking all the beauty, thats what i would like to think! LOL
My mother in law saw me put something on a high shelf and scolded me about lifting my arms over my head, how that would make the umbilical cord wrap around the babies neck. I had to laugh; that was an old wives tale I had never heard before.
If you get a dark line on your belly that goes all the way up to your boobs it's a boy- if not (or it doesn't go far) it's a girl. With the first I had a huge dark line, with the second- no line at all! Both boys! So much for that one!
if you eat twin bananas you'd have twins. if became ugly while pregnant, it's a boy. if you're glowing and beautiful, you're going to have a girl.
I heard that if you become ugly or start getting bad acne or generally losing your good looks during your pregnancy, you're having a girl, because baby girls steal their mother's beauty. ;)
This one is really dark. My Grandmother told me not to let my son look at himself is the mirror because he would die. I did and he lived. It was really morbid though.
if you squeeze your chin and their is no dent then its a boy if there is a dent it is a girl.
Don't eat turkey because it will make you go into labour. Yeah...I still ate turkey.