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my Mother-in-law had lots of 'bits of wisdom'

you would go into labor the day before - the day of or the day after a moon change

take a babies bottle away when the signs were in the knees and when they were in the feet they were through with the bottle ( the signs that are in an almanac )

when it turned cool, the storm was over

don't wash clothes on January 1st... somebody you love will die that year.

eat black-eyed peas Jan 1st and you won't go hungery that year.

 

i spent ages reading all these o w t  but i didn't see this one and i would be interested to see if anyone else ever got told that if you sit on cold cement you would get piles.
we were always told that and it wasn't until i was 17 that i found out what piles were and i was 25 before i found out it wasn't true.

someone who's pregnant is another way to get pregnant. I worked with a girl who was pregnant, and sat down on the seat after her, and fair enough, i got pregnant about 3 weeks after.

There were other workers in there, and told me not to sit on the seat aswell as i would get pregnant and they were right also. I got told this by mum when i was about 15

i was told by a fiend if your childs first word is dad you will ahve a boy next if your childs first word is mum you will have a girl next

my first 2 boys said dad first my 3 boy said mum first then i had a girl

not sure if true or not but worked for me

This one is so funny. I was 19 and had a cuppa with my nan and i was telling her how i was enrolled in tafe to do my accounting. I got up and dropped my teaspoon in the kitchen. My nan blasfeamed and said you watch it girl you'll get pregnant now. and you know what 7 weeks later the vomiting started and i saw my doc, i was 6 weeks pregnant. i saw my nan again and she said tea Liz and i said no milo please as tea made me feel ill, she looked at me and said oh no your not. i said yep march 19 they say and getting married in 6 weeks. she laughted and said its all cause you dropped the tea spoon in the kitchen.

Dont drop teaspoons

for a good year and a half any couple who walked into my house and had a drink with us no matter tea coffee water ect they ended up pregnant within the next month. In this time we has 6 couples i think who were at their whits end and about to go through IVF or give up fell pregnant. this also included our fish. In the end we had so many baby fish we had to pull apart my study and get 6 more tanks. we made a bunch off it but also brought the price of fish down a lot in Perth. LOL moral of the story Buy fish, get them to breed and your house will become fertile. I will add that i was already pregnant with Charlie at the time.

Hey there I'm a newbie but here are a couple of mine

if you walk under a ladder its supposed to bring bad luck.

Breaking a mirror will cause 7 years bad luck.

If you are all out front with your pregnancy its a boy if you are all round its a girl.

If you have big feet you will have small boobs, if you have small feet they didn't grow under the shadow of your big boobs hehe

 I like the feet one my Auntie swaers by it.  It is so far true in my immediate family I have big feet so you know what that means

Hi, I'm new to this group & I have a few tales from when I was pregnant. 1. If you have heartburn your baby will have lots of hair - False, My baby Matilda is really bold. 2. Eat before you get out of bed in the morning if you have morning sickness- False, I vomited for 5 months every morn without fail. Anyway I can't think at the moment of anymore so I will talk about my self, my name is Belinda, I am married to a lovely man & we have a gorgeous 5 month old baby girl named Matilda. We live south of Sydney & I am 26 years old.

Hi I did'nt relise it was an auzi site either but i have one so plz forgive

Don't look into a mirror before getting into bed any bad feeling you have from that day will cause a bad nights sleep and the bad mood will still be there in the morning!!!!!

It is unlucky to bring eggs into the house when it is dark outside.

Never pass salt across the table from person to person, or you will start a fight.

Rain on your wedding day means you will have many children.

Never give an empty wallet or handbag as a gift, or it will be empty forever.

Mirrors should be covered during a thunderstorm as they attract lightning.

A watermelon will grow in your stomach if you swallow a watermelon seed.

Salty soup is a sign the cook is in love.