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11-20-2012 at 10:35 AM
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Strangest, funniest old wives tales

It's Tuesday morning, and I'm bored, tired and in need of a laugh. What are the weirdest myths you've heard about trying to conceive and pregnancy?
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11-20-2012 at 10:44 AM
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I once heard that you are not supposed to poop after you ovulate. And if you do, don't strain/push or you might squeeze the egg out!! lol
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11-20-2012 at 10:55 AM
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I think some of my favourites involve foods.

Like eating yams helps conceive twins and eating pineapple core can help with implantation.

I also love the suggestion that you sit with your legs up in the air after the BD to help the swimmers reach their destination. it always makes me giggle imagining all these women around the world sitting with their legs up in the air and some dude who made it up for fun laughing an evil laugh.

 
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11-20-2012 at 10:57 AM
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I might have read something about putting a pair of scissors under your bed when you are trying? It could have been an egg under your bed. I don't remember it very well, but anything under your bed helping you to conceive, is pretty effing ridiculous. 
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11-20-2012 at 10:59 AM
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My friend swore she got pregnant after months of trying because she wore red heels while having sex, then holding her red-heeled feet up in the air afterwards. Indifferent

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11-20-2012 at 11:06 AM
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MandaPanda518:
My friend swore she got pregnant after months of trying because she wore red heels while having sex, then holding her red-heeled feet up in the air afterwards. Indifferent

Huh? wow haha.
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11-20-2012 at 11:25 AM
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My sister swears that because I dyed my hair red when I was pregnant with DS2 is why he has red hair, when his paternal grandmother is Puerto Rican, and his father has the dark hair and eyes from her. Not that my German/Irish/French background has anything to do with that. Apparently my genes won that one. Seriously, hair dye?
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11-20-2012 at 11:48 AM
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Strangest has got to be the one I heard when I was a teen, that you could get pregnant from a toilet seat if a guy happened to leave his sperm there and you sat on it all unknowing.  Huh?
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11-20-2012 at 2:17 PM
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MandaPanda518:
My friend swore she got pregnant after months of trying because she wore red heels while having sex, then holding her red-heeled feet up in the air afterwards. Indifferent

 

Hmm.. I might need to break out my red patent heels tonight !! 

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Mrs Castillo:
I might have read something about putting a pair of scissors under your bed when you are trying? It could have been an egg under your bed. I don't remember it very well, but anything under your bed helping you to conceive, is pretty effing ridiculous. 

I heard of putting a knife under the mattress while in labor to help "cut" the pain, but never the scissors.

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That's hilarious!
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