Pregnant Kate Hudson Says It Feels Like A Girl
Kate Hudson appeared on the Graham Norton show last night. The actress spoke publicly about her pregnancy for the first time since it was revealed last week that she was expecting her second child with her boyfriend, Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy. This pregnancy apparently feels different than her first, if her comments are any indication. As Kate says: “It feels like a girl, but I don’t know.” (Ryder, her seven year old, also seems to think it’s a girl. No word on the dad’s prediction.)
It would be interesting to see some statistics on mothers’ vibes about the sex of the babies they’re carrying. Is there any accuracy to a mother’s instinct when it comes to a baby’s sex?
The scientific answer is probably no. (I googled and googled but wasn’t able to find any peer-reviewed studies to support, or even refute, the idea). But maybe anecdotal evidence tells a different story?
Then there’s the first vs. second pregnancy thing. My two pregnancies did feel different. I definitely had a boy vibe both times. But I wonder if the second time I was just trying to get myself used to the idea of having two boys in case I did. In retrospect, my daughter’s fetal movements were very gentle and graceful, which could have belied her ballerina-like moves now that she’s a kid. But at the time, I didn’t think of that as male or female. In fact, I was so convinced she was a boy that I misheard the OB’s proclamation, “Look at this peanut!” when she emerged and thought she was talking about the baby’s penis. “It’s a boy!” I exclaimed. Just as I’d thought.
Did you have any instinct about whether the baby in your belly was a boy or a girl? Were you accurate?
[via MTV]
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I pictured a boy the whole time and had a girl, but her kicks were fierce! And they still are. She looks just like her father, which is actually what I pictured in the first place. I just didn’t know a baby girl could be so pretty with his features.
I couldn’t have been more wrong on my instinct the second time around. I am about 7 months pregnant with baby #2, and I was so convinced until the 20 week ultrasound that this was a girl. Everything about my pregnancy was completely different up until that point (and still is… if I didn’t know better, and already get a second and third opinion, I’d still swear this was a girl). I was incredibly surprised to hear I was having another boy. Surprisingly, not disappointed… but still surprised.
I thought that my third pregnancy would be a girl. My mother had 2 boys and girl and I already had 2 boys. The pregnancy felt different and I was super emotional. When the ultrasound technician told me we were having another boy, I asked him to check again. He did and said it was crystal clear. After the shock, I celebrated raising three boys and told myself that one day I may be the princess in the house.
I think my actual quote was “I’d be more surprised if the doctor said it was a puppy than if he said it was a boy”.. Baby boy due in April, confirmed very adamantly by every ultrasound since. I was so convinced it was a girl, I had the nursery, name, accessories picked out and ready to order.. Luckily, we hadn’t actually ordered anything yet, and are very excited to meet our little mister!
Why is it that this white heterolsexual divorced woman, who has had many bf ‘s sinse her divorced now pregnant, has known the man less than a yr good news?! There is SUCH unfair double standards. Everyones always enraged over gay issues and marriage and gays are diseased perves yet heterolsexual do plenty of bed hoping and no one says a thing. Who cares KH is going to give birth to some bastard child.