Since ancient times, there has been a saying in the folk: sour children and hot women. What does this mean? To put it simply, if a pregnant woman suddenly changes her taste when she is pregnant, and suddenly likes to eat sour things, or likes to eat spicy things, then it means that she will give birth to a boy or a girl.
Until today, although people's scientific common sense is also increasing, this kind of "sour and spicy girl" statement, in the folk, there are still many people who believe in it. So, is this statement accurate?
Pregnant women eat hawthorn every day, but give birth to a baby girl
A woman who lives in Beijing shared a real experience of herself on the Internet: she said that when she was pregnant, it was the beginning of September, and since she became pregnant, she liked to eat acid very much, especially when she thought of the rock sugar gourds that can be seen everywhere on the northern streets in winter, and she was eager to eat it in her mouth immediately.
However, in the north of autumn, there is no sale of rock sugar gourds, so she bought a lot of hawthorn on the Internet, and then made it herself every day to eat, and felt that she could not eat enough, and even later, the layer of sugar wrapped on the hawthorn was not needed, she directly washed it and ate it, and she would eat a lot every day.
This action of hers also convinced the family that the woman must be pregnant with a boy, but when it came to giving birth, she gave birth to a baby girl, and at first, the family also thought that the child was "wrong"? Otherwise, why eat so much acid during pregnancy and not give birth to a boy?
Until later, the doctors of the hospital gave them a detailed explanation for the folk "sour and spicy women", and the family knew that the original folk saying was not reliable.
"Sour girls" are fake, why do many people believe it?
Why is it said that "sour girls" are fake? This is because the sex of the fetus is not determined by food, but by "sex chromosomes".
What is a "sex chromosome"? We all know that in our body, everyone has 23 pairs of chromosomes, of which 1 pair is a sex chromosome, and the meaning of its existence is that from the moment the fertilized egg is formed, it determines our sex, or more accurately, the birth of boys and girls is determined by the male sex chromosomes.
The female chromosomes are XX, only the male chromosome is XY, so if the chromosome met in the fertilized egg is XX, then, it means that the pregnancy is a baby girl, if it is XY, then, it is a baby boy, and this form of fertilization, there is no human control factor in it, in short, it is randomly generated, therefore, this also means that the sex of the fetus itself is also random.
Of course, from the perspective of probability, the probability of male and female babies appearing is similar, the reason why the current male population in the mainland is more than 30 million more than the female population, this is actually because in the past, people's "son preference" thinking, resulting in many female fetuses have not yet had the opportunity to come to this world, they were aborted, or died after birth for some reasons.
Therefore, seeing here, everyone understands that any folk statement about giving birth to boys and girls is actually false, as to why some people believe in the "sour and spicy girl" statement, on the one hand, because in the past, people did not understand how the sex of the fetus was formed, and could not answer the question from a scientific point of view, on the other hand, it is also because there are indeed "coincidental" things in life, which will make many people mistakenly think that it is true.
Why does the mainland ban fetal sex determination?
Speaking of which, many friends are curious, why is the United States and many other countries allow fetal identification in pregnant women, and why is the mainland not allowed? Is it that technology can't do it?
Speaking of which, modern medicine can easily identify the sex of the fetus through many means, but the mainland does not allow this, because once the fetal identification is allowed, then, for some "patriarchal" families, once it is found that it is pregnant with a girl, then, the high probability will choose to fall, which is also invisibly strangling a new life.
However, although fetal sex identification is not allowed, the mainland can screen whether the fetus has defective genes through many advanced technologies and pregnancy tests, and whether there will be congenital diseases, genetic diseases, etc., so as to achieve the effect of eugenics, which is actually protecting the fetus and protecting the family.
Therefore, here is also a reminder that in the mainland, in any case of non-medical needs, the use of medical means to identify the sex of the fetus is illegal, once it is found that the consequences are also very serious, we should not hold a fluke psychology to carry out fetal sex identification.
In addition, in addition to the saying of "sour and spicy women", the folk saying that "the tip of the belly is a boy, and the belly round is a girl" is also wrong, so don't blindly believe it.