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I came across the following article (in the Belfast Telegraph) which intrigued me for several reasons. Firstly, it is about a hospital in Hertfordshire, UK although the newspaper is from Belfast.

Secondly, the hospital is one I know well, as both my daughters were born there!

But, thirdly, the title caught my eye… Should you have the right to know your unborn baby’s sex?

My reaction was, “Why on earth not?” The reason for this was because it is so easy to work out the sex anyway. Just ask the Japanese, who have been using dowsing to check the sex of egg for years and years. They wanted to know which eggs would give rise to cockerels and to hens. Don’t want many cockerels, so find them and discard them (I know; not fair….). How to do this? Using dowsing. You sit with a pendulum over the eggs as they pass in front of you on a belt and if the pendulum goes one way, it’s female, if it goes the other, it’s male. Simple. And, as I said, they’ve been doing that for ages. So…..

With regard to the article, the solution is simple, use a pendulum to find out the sex. (The reason hospitals don’t want to tell you, apparently, is for fear of being sued iof they get it wrong. Oh, save me!!!)

If you read the article yourself (and I’m assuming you’re relying on me here to fill in the details, the you come across this:

“…I’m not even at the halfway point of my pregnancy, yet I’m champing at the bit to find out and have already had a stab at crystal dowsing and an online Chinese gender predictor. Alas, the results contradicted each other…”

Well, there you go again! Try it and then try something else and see if both answers are the same. In other words, the usual approach to using something which helps your intuition; don’t actually put your trust in it.

There are old wives’ tales of holding a ring over the abdomen and watching which way it goes. That’s dowsing. And I’m pretty darned sure that midwives way back when were using exactly the same approach to see what the sex was, way before ultrasound was even thought of.

And I’ll tell you something else, I bet they were every bit as accurate as ultrasound is….

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