8 months pregnant, swollen left foot, it's a boy

During pregnancy, in addition to enjoying the happiness of nurturing a life, people also pay special attention to the issue of whether it is a boy or a girl. After the eighth month of pregnancy, many mothers will experience swollen feet, especially the left foot which tends to swell earlier. But similarly, there are also cases where there is no swelling. This makes pregnant mothers think that a swollen left foot at eight months of pregnancy increases the probability of a boy. But is this idea really accurate?

Swollen feet during pregnancy is a normal physiological reaction, which usually occurs in the late pregnancy. You don't need to worry too much if your feet are swollen, as long as it's not widespread. If you find that the swelling in your feet is getting bigger and bigger and expanding very quickly and high, and it persists after you rest on time, then you should pay attention, as it may be caused by other diseases.

There are many reasons why pregnant women experience swollen feet during pregnancy, such as the constant changes in hormones in the body during pregnancy, or the placenta secreting a large amount of estrogen and progesterone during pregnancy, which prevents your body from excreting water and salt, thus causing edema. More importantly, after pregnancy, the blood volume in expectant mothers' bodies increases, which causes changes in vascular permeability, so it is more likely to cause edema. These are very common phenomena, so pregnant mothers don’t have to worry. As long as they take good care of themselves and get enough rest, the edema will gradually disappear.

We told the doctor that many people say that swollen feet in the late pregnancy means a boy, and swollen feet in the early pregnancy means a girl. Is this correct? The doctor laughed and explained to me and my friend that the gender of the baby is determined by the sex chromosomes of the parents, not just swollen feet. The genes for a girl are XX, and those for a boy are YY. So swollen feet is a normal phenomenon, but it is definitely not a criterion for whether the baby is a boy or a girl.

The doctor also said that older pregnant women may suffer from gestational hypertension, kidney diseases and other diseases, and the incidence of this phenomenon is higher than that of pregnant women of appropriate age, which is also the cause of swollen feet. If a pregnant woman experiences abnormal swelling of the feet, she needs to go to the hospital for examination.

After my friend and I found out, she went home and told her mother-in-law, but her mother-in-law firmly believed that she was pregnant with a boy, so I just had to wait and see the result after her baby is born! But I still want to tell everyone that mothers who are planning to get pregnant must do so at the right age, so that these symptoms will not appear. Because giving birth at an older age is more dangerous and not easy to get pregnant, it is better to give birth to a lovely baby while you are at the right age.