The moment someone in the neighbourhood gets pregnant, the whole street turns into Jaasusi Aunty mode. One aunty says, ‘This position means it’ll be a boy,’ another quotes Google Baba saying, ‘No-no, If sex from the back side then it’s a boy and from the front it’s a girl!’ Basically, everyone suddenly becomes a ‘doctor’.
Now just think if all this was true, then instead of sonography, the CCTV footage of the bedroom would have made the report! Aunties would have told while flipping parathas – “Puttar ji, in which position did you sleep last night? Should I make a report based on that?”
Do sex positions determine gender?
Absolutely not because this is just a myth, which people easily believe while there is no scientific evidence for it. Although you must have often heard that "Doggy position gives birth to a son, missionary position gives birth to a daughter."
Someone must have said that "If there is deep penetration then a son is sure!" But Aditi beta, all these things are just "grandmother's research". There is no scientific basis for them.
Understand the real science
Look beta ji, the job of deciding the gender is not of any position but of chromosomes.
- Mummy always gives X chromosome
- Papa has two choices – X (for daughter) or Y (for son)
That is, whether the child will be a son or a daughter, it is finalized at the very moment of conception or fertilisation. Later, whether you try a high position or yoga, the result of the game is not going to change.
It is illegal to know the sex of the fetus in India. According to the PCPNDT Act (Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994), both getting the gender tested or trying to get it done are crimes. From the doctor to the mother-father, everyone can have to go to jail, so on hearing the words “Change the position, the gender will change”, just smile and sip tea.
So what to do?
Son or daughter, both are your children. So always learn to respect your children. Also, during pregnancy, the real focus should be on these things only.
- Eat healthy food
- Take less stress
- Follow the doctor's guidelines
- Live every moment of pregnancy to the fullest
Understand one thing, not son or daughter but your love and care is going to create the real world of the child.
So Aditi, "Position does not change the child but if the relationship is full of love and trust, then the whole life changes its color." Come on now, we will meet next time - with a cup of tea and lots of spicy talks.
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