I decided to do a little research and it turns out that this tradition dates back to the Aztecs, who believed that "an eclipse was a bite on the face of the moon" and if a mother-to-be watched it, the same thing would happen to her baby. Apparently, when my younger sister was pregnant and living at home, she would get her laundry back and find that all her underwear had safety pins on them. The reasoning behind this is that eclipses have such strong force fields that they do harm to babies in the womb. And wouldn't you know it, I happened to be home during the recent eclipse in December! My mother made my little sister go out and buy me a box of safety pins to-get this-put on my underwear (red is the preferred color for underwear)! I was also forbidden to go out during the eclipse or to take a shower the day of the eclipse. However, the most interesting of these traditions involves safety pins, red underwear and eclipses. She still encourages me to fulfill my cravings so that this doesn't affect the baby. My mother also has indulged all my cravings (mostly for her Mexican food, which have always been there btw), because she doesn't want LT to always have an "open mouth".
The reasoning behind this is that "boys develop faster" and since they are already able to make out LT's body/limbs, they've come to the assumption that LT must be a boy! Next, my mother, along with a few of my aunts/cousins, insist that we will have a boy simply by looking at the ultrasound.
He then proceeded to ask me to stand up so he could see my "bump" and noted that since I was carrying "low", that also confirmed that I will be having a girl (altho, I've read it should be the opposite!). Our first conversation went as follows:ĭad: Hi Gorda (translation: chubby), how is Geoffrey feeling?ĭad: He doesn't have any of your pregnancy symptoms: nausea, faintness, cravings?ĭad: Oh, then you are going to have a girl. First, did you know that if the "father to be" does not experience any pregnancy symptoms, then the baby will be a girl? This piece of knowledge was passed down to me by my dad. I spent a few days at home during the holiday break and came back a little bit wiser on my family's pregnancy superstitions traditions.Īllow me to educate you.
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