Drowsiness in late pregnancy

In fact, when pregnant women reach the late stage of pregnancy, they often feel weak. They need to walk back and forth with a big belly, and naturally they will feel sleepy and want to sleep. Some people will regard the sleepiness of pregnant women as a manifestation of gender. For example, everyone will think that being sleepy easily means it must be a boy or a girl. In fact, sleepiness in pregnant women is a normal physiological manifestation, which has nothing to do with the gender of the baby.

Sleepiness during pregnancy is a boy or a girl

Pregnancy is a very happy thing, but it is also an extremely difficult thing. Women experience a lot of physical discomfort during pregnancy. For example, some pregnant women are very prone to drowsiness during pregnancy. Many people believe that a pregnant woman feeling sleepy is related to the gender of the baby. So when a pregnant woman feels sleepy, is it a boy or a girl? This article will give a detailed explanation of this issue.

Early in pregnancy, you will start to feel very sleepy during the day. This sudden urge to sleep is caused by increased levels of progesterone in the body. Progesterone is a female hormone that helps regulate the reproductive system's physiological cycles and has a calming effect. This sudden increase in this natural chemical can make a typical workday feel like a marathon.

You may feel exhausted and as if you have a cold. Although progesterone makes you feel sleepy, it can actually affect your sleep 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 whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. Here, the editor will introduce several folk methods to predict the baby’s gender.

1. If the fetal heart rate is lower than 140 beats/minute, the fetus is a boy.

Experts say: Girls have a higher heart rate than boys, but this is only true when they are just born. There is no difference in the fetal heart rate between boys and girls. The speed of heart rate only varies with gestational age. At about 5 weeks of pregnancy, the fetus' heart rate is close to the mother's heart rate, which is 80 to 85 beats per minute. Then, during the 9th week of pregnancy, the heart rate gradually increases to 170~200 beats/minute. Then during the second trimester, the rate gradually slows down to 120-160 beats per minute.

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

Expert opinion: If a pregnant woman has a short upper body, the space for the fetus to develop can only extend outward, so the abdomen will appear large. On the contrary, if a pregnant woman has a long upper body, it can provide enough space for the fetus to grow, and the abdomen does not need to protrude outward.

3. If a pregnant woman has a lower abdomen (large lower abdomen), it is a boy; if a pregnant woman has an upper abdomen (large upper abdomen), it is a girl.

Expert opinion: If the pregnant woman is carrying the upper part of the baby's belly, it may be her first pregnancy or she may have a good body shape. After a pregnant woman has been pregnant once, her abdominal muscles relax and will naturally "sag" when she becomes pregnant again. If a pregnant woman's abdomen protrudes too much, it is a girl. If the abdomen is not too protruding or the lower abdomen is protruding, it is a boy. Expert opinion: If a pregnant woman has a short upper body, the space for the fetus to develop can only extend outward, so the abdomen will appear large. On the contrary, if a pregnant woman has a long upper body, it can provide enough space for the fetus to grow, and the abdomen does not need to protrude outward.

4. Black nipples indicate a boy.

Experts say: Nipple color is affected by hormones in the body. The increase in progesterone and melanocyte-stimulating hormone levels during pregnancy causes certain originally dark areas on the body surface to become darker. The color will return to normal quickly after giving birth, and this phenomenon has nothing to do with the sex of the fetus.

5. The relationship between eating sour or alkaline foods and the gender of the baby.

Expert opinion: Some people determine whether food is acidic or alkaline based solely on its taste, which is a misunderstanding in itself. It should be emphasized that acid-base imbalance in the human body is usually caused by illness.