Does feeling sleepy during the second trimester mean you're having a girl?

Pregnancy is a very happy thing, but it is also a very difficult thing. Women experience many discomforts in their bodies during pregnancy. For example, some pregnant women always want to sleep during pregnancy. Many people think that sleepiness during pregnancy is related to whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. So when a pregnant woman feels sleepy, is it a boy or a girl? This article gives a detailed explanation of this question.

Early in pregnancy, you may start to feel very sleepy during the day. This sudden feeling of drowsiness is caused by an increase in the body's progesterone levels. Progesterone is a female hormone that helps regulate the menstrual cycle and has a calming effect on the urinary system. This sudden increase in natural compounds can make a normal workday feel like a marathon. You may feel exhausted and as if you have a fever or cold. Although progesterone makes you feel sleepy, it can actually affect your sleep quality at night and make you more tired during the day.

Feeling sleepy during pregnancy is a normal physiological phenomenon and has nothing to do with the gender of the baby. Below, the editor will introduce several folk ways to tell the gender of the baby.

1. If the fetal heart rate is less than 140 beats/minute, the baby is likely to be a boy.

Experts say: Girls have higher heart rates than boys, but this is only true when they are just born. There is no difference between the heart rates of boys and girls in the fetus. The heart rate only changes with the gestational age. At about 5 weeks of pregnancy, the fetus' heartbeat is close to the parents' heart rate, which is 80 to 85 beats per minute. Then until the 9th week of pregnancy, the heart rate slowly increases to 170-200 beats per minute. Then during the middle of pregnancy, it slowly slows down to 120~160 beats/minute.

2. If the pregnant woman's abdomen is too prominent, it is a girl. If the abdomen is not too prominent or the lower abdomen is prominent, it is a boy.

Experts say: If a pregnant woman has a short upper body, the space for the baby to grow can only expand outward, so the abdomen will appear very large. On the contrary, pregnant women have long upper bodies, which can provide sufficient space for the baby to grow, and the abdomen does not need to protrude.

3. If the pregnant woman's lower abdomen is big, it is a boy; if the pregnant woman's upper abdomen is big, it is a girl.

Experts say: If the pregnant woman is pregnant with an upper calf, it may be her first pregnancy or she is in good shape. After a pregnant woman has been pregnant once, her abdominal muscles become weak, and of course they become "loose" when she becomes pregnant again. If a pregnant woman's abdomen is too prominent, it is a girl. If the abdomen is not too prominent or the lower abdomen is prominent, it is a boy. Experts say: If a pregnant woman has a short upper body, the space for the baby to grow can only expand outward, so the abdomen will appear very large. On the contrary, pregnant women have long upper bodies, which can provide sufficient space for the baby to grow, and the abdomen does not need to protrude.

4. Darkening nipples indicate a boy.

Experts say: Nipple color is affected by hormones in the body. During pregnancy, the body's corpus luteum and melanocyte-stimulating hormone increase, causing some originally dark areas on the body surface to become darker. These areas will quickly recover after delivery, and this phenomenon has nothing to do with the identification of the sex of the fetus.

5. The relationship between eating sour or alkaline foods and whether the baby is a boy or a girl.

Experts say: Some people judge whether a food is acidic or alkaline based on its taste, which is a wrong idea in itself. It should be noted that an imbalance of strong acids and alkalis in the body is usually caused by illness.

According to the detailed introduction in the article, it can be understood that sleepiness in pregnant women has little to do with whether they are pregnant with a boy or a girl. If you are a pregnant woman who is sleepy during pregnancy, it is actually a normal part of pregnancy and has little to do with whether you have a boy or a girl. If you want to know whether you are pregnant with a boy or a girl, there are actually many symptoms that can tell.