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Amy • Mon, Jun 20

Wonder how accurate the tale is that the lower the heart rate is, means it's a boy and a high heart rate like 160 and higher is a girl??? My first born is a boy and his heart rate was always in the low 140s. My first scan this pregnancy the heart rate was 150.

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