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Answer
While old wives tales can be amusing, those of us in the medical profession
don't use the baby's heart rate as a determiner of sex. A study mentioned
in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, "found there was no difference in
male and female fetal heart at anytime during pregnancy." (JUM, 7:237-238,
1988) Results of another study, published in Britain's Clinical Science
(92, 345–349, 1997) echoed these findings.
There is no truth to the myth that you can tell the sex of the baby by
the way you are carrying it, meaning low or high. And if people tell
you differently, remember, any method (even a coin toss) is going to be
correct about half the time! Ultrasound is much more dependable, and
amniocentesis is the most reliable of all.
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