Big Trouble in Little Chinese Wives Tales

27 October 2005, 19:35

When I was in Cairns recently, Nick’s gorgeous (yet charmingly barmy) Chinese wife Coco told me about an old Chinese myth about a baby’s gender-predicting…

Apparently, in downtown Qindao, if your skin takes a turn for the worse during pregancy (like flaky, pimply etc. etc.) you’re having a boy, if it comes good and starts glowing like a shiny, happy person, then it’s a girl.

Trouble is, my skin has stayed pretty much the same (I am so boring). Vot could zees mean Dr. Spock?

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1. Is your naturally good and glowing or flaky and pimply? Maybe you’re having twins and your body has found a nce equilibrium.
   — Hammy    Oct 27, 09:19 PM    #
2. i’ve heard the exact opposite. supposedly if your skin takes a turn for the worse, it’s a girl because she’s taking away some of your beauty to grow her own :)
   
   love those wive’s tales.
   — gleek    Oct 28, 01:16 AM    #
3. I concur with gleek – my wife had great skin when pregnant and … it was a boy, QED.
   — Ferit    Oct 28, 09:30 AM    #
4. charmingly barmy and very strange, sounds like a perfect match to me!
   
   (the way she’s going we’ll be charmingly wealthy and very rich in a few years, so I’m not complaining)
   
   “rather be dead than normal” – Nick Souter 2005
   — nick    Oct 29, 02:52 AM    #