One of the many fun parts of preparing for a baby is trying to predict your unborn baby's gender and the guessing game that arises on whether it'll be a little boy or girl. There are plenty of scientific ways for expectant parents to find out the sex of their baby, like noninvasive prenatal testing, ultrasounds, and even gender prediction kits that you can buy and administer at home. But there are also many, many unscientific ways that people have used throughout the ages to predict the gender of a baby. Yup, there are tons of wives' tales that claim to predict a child's sex that have nothing to do with science.
More from MamásLatinas: 40 Baby boy names popular in Latin America & Spain to inspire your search
Whether or not you are going to find out the gender of your baby ahead of time via your doctor, it can be fun to get yourself and others to predict the gender of your baby using what many abuelas and tías consider to be foolproof ways to figure out if you are carrying a boy or a girl. You can even turn it into a friendly competition to see who "guesses" correctly when the time comes. Check out some long-held gender prediction tools below, and try some of them out to see if they actually work.