Series: About: My Theories
I am a theory person; I have all sorts of them. My hubby rolls his eyes but politely listens everytime I announce that I have a new one. He thinks I'm a nut or a boob or a hoot--whatever you say in your neck-o-the-woods. My theories are all over the place, as are my blog posts and I have to say that my inconsistencies are probably the only consistency in my life.
The theory I'll reveal tonight is one of which I have somewhat tested personally.
When you're pregnant, if you're gonna have a girl, your leg hair will grow normally; however, if you're gonna have a boy, your leg hair will hardly grow at all.
Why would this be, you ask?
Simple. If you're pregnant with a boy, those hormones that cause the hair to grow on your legs is somehow absorbed by the male fetus because typically males are hairier than females and they need all the "hair hormones" they can get.
Does this mean that males who experience male pattern baldness early in life didn't absorb enough "hair hormones" in-utero? I don't know, I'm NOT a scientist, people, c'mon!
I've been pregnant five times and I started noticing with my second born, a boy, that I barely had to shave at all during the pregnancy and I wondered at the time, "Why?" I didn't notice this "trend" with my firstborn, a girl. I have to say that the absence of leg hair bothered me none the bit, as every woman ever having been with child can testify that shaving your legs is not an easy task as your tummy swells more and more each month.
I do have to say that my research may be slightly skewed, as the hair on my head didn't seem to grow less when pregnant with my sons; however, how can you truly measure head hair?
Anyway, that's my "girl or boy" theory. I've asked a few close people at the time they were pregnant, whether their leg hair was growing less. They looked at me weird.
Oh, well, that's my theory and I'm stickin' with it.
3 comments:
So, what're you trying to tell us something?? Because I was really hoping that you were saying you were pregnant....cuz that would've be AWESOME. :)
You said "boob". In reference to another person. *giggle*
That's funny
Oh....and i didn't notice any lesser leg hair growth with my 3 boys...but I'm sometimes rather unobservant. Like...hey, where are my kids??
Be right back.
N.O. NOT trying to tell you anything and don't curse me, Tammi. We've been out of diapers now for...see, long enough that I cannot even remember and we were in diapers for TWELVE CONSECUTIVE YEARS!
I don't see anything AWESOME about being preggo anymore. A few years ago, maybe but I've gone through mourning after having decided that child-bearing needed to be over for us. I just don't do labor and delivery well anymore and when it gets that U-G-L-Y, it just needs to end.
After having gone through four previous labors, you'd think I'd be an old had at delivery by the time #5 came along but I was so petrified at the end of Zac's nine months in-utero that I KNOW I made his delivery seem miserable. I'm just not that young, brave and naive anymore and the deep breaths and hoo-hoo-hoo breaths just annoy me now--even typing them is annoying.
I think I should blog about my L&D history, huh?
Speaking of "boob," has A.J. gotten over the fact that you have TWO of them yet? :0)
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