Baby Gender Prediction Quiz – 15 Old Wives Tales

Can pregnancy symptoms really predict your baby's gender? Take our baby gender prediction quiz based on 15 classic old wives' tales and see what the signs say.

What the Quiz Covers

The quiz asks about morning sickness severity, food cravings (sweet vs salty), belly shape (high vs low), heart rate (above or below 140 bpm), skin changes, mood swings, and more.

How It Works

Each of the 15 questions has two options — one associated with boy, one with girl. After answering all 15, we tally the results and show which gender got more signs.

Accuracy

Like all old wives' tales, the quiz is for entertainment only. No pregnancy symptom has been scientifically proven to predict gender. The quiz has about a 50% accuracy rate.

Each Question Explained

Morning Sickness

The tale says severe nausea means girl, mild or none means boy. A 2017 Swedish study of 1.7 million pregnancies found women carrying girls were slightly more likely to report severe nausea, but the difference is too small to be predictive for any individual pregnancy.

Food Cravings

Craving sweets (girl) vs salty/savory (boy). No scientific evidence. Cravings are driven by hormonal changes, nutritional needs, and cultural factors — not fetal gender.

Belly Position

Carrying high (girl) vs low (boy). Belly position depends on your body type, abdominal muscle tone, the baby’s position, and how many pregnancies you’ve had — not gender.

Heart Rate

Above 140 bpm (girl) vs below 140 bpm (boy). A 2018 meta-analysis of over 25 studies found no significant difference between male and female fetal heart rates at any stage of pregnancy.

Why Take the Quiz Anyway?

Even though the science doesn’t back it up, old wives’ tales quizzes are popular because they’re fun, fast, and social. They spark conversations, give you something to talk about at baby showers, and add to the excitement of waiting. The quiz is a celebration of pregnancy folklore — just don’t paint the nursery based on the results.

For a more comprehensive prediction, try our full gender predictor which combines this quiz with 7 other methods including the Chinese calendar and Ramzi theory.