The closed topic is about a serious issue, as we all understand.

However, when I saw the title, I thought it was about advice to pregnant women that was unwanted.

Something like : you mustn't eat lemons or the child will be bitter.

Might be interesting to look at some Thai and non-Thai "advices" ?

Ha ha....just reread it your way and see what you mean! Oops! How about "pregnant women shouldn't have sex"? If I was pregnant that would certainly be some advice I wouldn't want!

Pregnant women shouldn't drink Guiness as they might give birth to a black baby! It's true, it happened to a woman who lived around the corner from me.

But then, women who are breast feeding should drink guiness cos its good. full of iron and etc. my sister in law waited for ours for her ginuiss

I remember reading one in here where some guy's mother-in-law told him her daughter should not look at monkeys while pregnant because the baby would look like a monkey

I remember reading one in here where some guy's mother-in-law told him her daughter should not look at monkeys while pregnant because the baby would look like a monkey

We all do, regardless.

Would someone fix the title of this ? I stuffed up the beginning.

I'm told many Thai nicknames are related to a food the mother craved during pregnancy.

My son has a birth mark on his head, a small beauty spot on his left temple, to the thais this is very lucky & have been told that he will be prosperous in later life but when we moved house, one of the removers was from the west indies & told me they beleive that craving manifest into birthmarks & that I must have craved chocolate as my sons birth mark looked like a chocolate chip He then preceeded to show me a mark on his leg calf that had the shape & colour of cooked liver to prove it was true cause apparently his mum craved liver whilst preggers with him

I did eat chocolate chip boaster cookies through the pregnancy so there may be something in it

You aren't supposed to go to funerals when you are pregnant, then the child will only half-way close his/her eyes when sleeping. My cat does that, it is pretty freaky sometimes...wonder what kind of thai cat funerals are put on around these parts??...

I've never been to a funeral in my life but my son has always slept with snake eyes, as we call it, both of them a little bit open. It really freaks me out so I make sure he is asleep & then put his eyelids down

My son has a birth mark on his head, a small beauty spot on his left temple, to the thais this is very lucky & have been told that he will be prosperous in later life but when we moved house, one of the removers was from the west indies & told me they beleive that craving manifest into birthmarks & that I must have craved chocolate as my sons birth mark looked like a chocolate chip He then preceeded to show me a mark on his leg calf that had the shape & colour of cooked liver to prove it was true cause apparently his mum craved liver whilst preggers with him

Hilarious ! But convincing .

Giving me some very strange images, tho.

A list of Do’s n Don’ts Thai style for a mum-to-be - as handed down by superstition;

Don’ts

Mangoes - make baby bald

Chocolate - make baby black

Coconut - make baby come out

Bananas - make baby hairy

Fish - make baby small and stupid with strong aroma

Coca cola - make baby black and stupid and future drug addict

Gossip – your baby will pourd mak (talk too much)

Be gossiped about - your baby will pourd mak (talk too much)

Drive a motorbike - baby will come out

Do’s

Lao Khao (Thai moonshine) - highly recommended

Raw beef - highly recommended

Milk - highly recommended as long as it is low fat otherwise baby gets fat!

Mad!

Wow Nam. where did you get that lot?!? Unreal...

I imagine she got it from her neighbors

I've heard similar stuff but can never remember these things. Isn't there one about papaya too??

I imagine she got it from her neighbors

I've heard similar stuff but can never remember these things. Isn't there one about papaya too??

You'll have a child that like Som Tam?

Well papaya is used in some parts of India and Sri Lanka as a contraceptive!!!

Well papaya is used in some parts of India and Sri Lanka as a contraceptive!!!

Errrmm, how, exactly ?

Well papaya is used in some parts of India and Sri Lanka as a contraceptive!!!

It must be the male that has to eat the Papaya, cannot be what I am thinking

Also if the woman suffers from indigestion while carrying, baby will be born with a lot of hair