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They have dramatically different personalities in the womb as well, but only the birth mother can spot the difference late in the pregnancy. Examples: Same pare
by dzink 4y ago
They have dramatically different personalities in the womb as well, but only the birth mother can spot the difference late in the pregnancy. Examples: Same parents poking the belly with their finger where they feel a limb pushing from within. One baby pushes back. Another baby pulls back and hides the limb. A third one moved around but didn’t pull back. Those personalities very much persisted as they grow. The push backer has great executive thinking now and always insists on their choice for everything. The pulling baby is a great learner - listens well and absorbs prods for new information like a sponge. The third one is still young but loves to explore and catch things. You couldn’t guess the gender by any of that.
A child is really an incredible genetic gamble. It’s like someone grabs legos from multiple people’s genetics, spills an even portion of random pieces from each and builds a new person. If the baby has your looks it can have the other parent’s characteristics and your grandmother’s personality. 1/4 of pregnancies have issues as well - during conception, delivery, genetics. It’s all about how
many times you want to roll the dice.
- idontwantthis 4y agoHow do you know which child had which behavior in the womb?
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agoPresumably only one of them was in there at once. ;)
- idontwantthis 4y agoI will only comment post coffee from now on.
- chongli 4y agoTo be fair to your pre-caffeinated self, I also thought of twins when reading that post. It’s worded in a way that seems to imply twins, at least at first.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoTwins or triplets seem like safe assumptions to make at a first read, sure. I wonder if they'd still be able to tell them as well.
- kzrdude 4y agoI mean, I assumed it was about fish on the first reading. Thankfully some error recovery later it righted itself.
- moretothis 4y agoDoesn't the chemical soup also affect this. Is the mother obese, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, high on sugar or caffeine, levels of hormones, etc... I would think these habits would skew the results.
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- martindbp 4y agoMy son's resistance to swaddling at birth was quite predictive of his personality. He also did not like being poked in the belly, would fight back hard. Today he's one of the the most stubborn children in his preschool (as assessed by teachers!). From now on I'll rebrand his stubbornness as "executive thinking".