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It seems it might be fitting this time of year.

Which ones have you heard? Do you absently follow any of them?

There is one that says if a baby doesn't fall off a bed they will die young. So my mom and mawmaw piled a bunch of pillows and blankets up around the bed and gave me a nudge.

It seems silly but what can I say.

There is one about the number of fogs we have during October being the number of snows for the winter. So far we have had 7 serious fogs.

Do you know any?



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Cats sit on babies to suck their breath out.

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Lexxy, I just burst out laughing.

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TrudyML wrote:

Lexxy, I just burst out laughing.

You've never heard that?  I think the truth of it is they like the milk on their breath & they weigh too much for their little chest & they crush their lungs.  Or something along those lines.



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Heartburn when your pregnant means a hairy baby

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Lexxy wrote:
TrudyML wrote:

Lexxy, I just burst out laughing.

You've never heard that?  I think the truth of it is they like the milk on their breath & they weigh too much for their little chest & they crush their lungs.  Or something along those lines.

 I've heard that one, Lexxy.

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Lexxy wrote:
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Lexxy, I just burst out laughing.

You've never heard that?  I think the truth of it is they like the milk on their breath & they weigh too much for their little chest & they crush their lungs.  Or something along those lines.

 I have. It just struck me funny!

 

Ok, from Nana...

You drop a fork a lady is coming over.

You drop a knife a man is coming over.

You drop a spoon a baby is coming!



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TrudyML wrote:
Lexxy wrote:
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Lexxy, I just burst out laughing.

You've never heard that?  I think the truth of it is they like the milk on their breath & they weigh too much for their little chest & they crush their lungs.  Or something along those lines.

 I have. It just struck me funny!

 

Ok, from Nana...

You drop a fork a lady is coming over.

You drop a knife a man is coming over.

You drop a spoon a baby is coming!

 I am throwing away every spoon in my house!



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My maternal DGMa had so many...and my mind is going blank.

Maybe later, kids! LOL

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-- Edited by flan327 on Thursday 30th of October 2014 06:05:45 AM

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Eating breadcrusts gives you curly hair or something.

Step on a crack, break your mother's back.

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Heartburn when your pregnant means a hairy baby

 And yet, when I was gestating Reagan, I went from heartburn straight onto Liquid LIdacaine to combat some massive GERD.  And she had the thickest head of hair.  

Literally, once she was born, I never had the GERD again. 



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Well heartburn is often part of pregnancy, I had heartburn too but my son was a Baldie Bean until he was 3.

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Lexxy wrote:
TrudyML wrote:
Lexxy wrote:
TrudyML wrote:

Lexxy, I just burst out laughing.

You've never heard that?  I think the truth of it is they like the milk on their breath & they weigh too much for their little chest & they crush their lungs.  Or something along those lines.

 I have. It just struck me funny!

 

Ok, from Nana...

You drop a fork a lady is coming over.

You drop a knife a man is coming over.

You drop a spoon a baby is coming!

 I am throwing away every spoon in my house!

I think I would too.  



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I had terrible heartburn with all my kids. They all had a head full of hair and it didn't fall out either.



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Baldie Bean! I love it!!!!

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If the bean fits!

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Lindley wrote:

Heartburn when your pregnant means a hairy baby

 This is true. 



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Not necessarily cause and effect
While it sounds like there's a link between the amount of heartburn you experience and the amount of hair your baby has, it's not necessarily a cause-and-effect relationship. In other words, it's probably not the hair on your baby's head that's actually causing you to feel the burn.

Other studies have shown that high levels of estrogen and other hormones, which surge during pregnancy, can relax the sphincter at the bottom of the esophagus. This can cause stomach acid to leak through and cause a burning sensation. Still more studies have found that these same hormones can play a role in how much hair fetuses grow in the womb.

Therefore, if you have these high levels of hormones, you're more likely to have heartburn episodes during pregnancy. Your infant is also more likely to have a fuller head of hair when he or she is born. However, you can rest assured knowing that it's not your son's or daughter's tresses that are somehow touching your esophagus and making it burn – that's physically impossible!

http://www.pregnancymagazine.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/does-having-heartburn-during-pregnancy-mean-your-baby-has-a-lot-of-hair

 

http://www.fitpregnancy.com/pregnancy/labor-delivery/heartburn-expect-heir-hair

Pregnant women who suffer heartburn deliver newborns with full heads of hair, goes the old wives' tale. Now researchers say the folklore may be true. In their study, women with moderate to severe heartburn had babies with average or above average amounts of hair; most women with no heartburn had babies with less than average or no hair. They speculate that pregnancy hormones which relax the sphincter at the base of mom's esophagus may also affect fetal hair growth



-- Edited by NAOW on Thursday 30th of October 2014 10:55:15 AM

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Thanks, NAOW. I could not figure out the connection!

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I had heartburn with both my babies and they had a head full of hair when they were born.

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NAOW wrote:
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Heartburn when your pregnant means a hairy baby

 This is true. 

 I had heartburn with my daughter and she was born with a huge full head of hair.  I didn't with my boys and they were both bald.  One was bald until he was three.  The other for about a good year.



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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Eating breadcrusts gives you curly hair or something.

Step on a crack, break your mother's back.

 Once when I was a kid I made it a point to step on every crack on the way home from school.  When I got home my mom had hurt her back and was in bed.  She stayed there for weeks with a hurt back.  I never stepped on a crack again.



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