Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums GT Research morning sickness anyone?

I was more sick with DD3, but didn't puke once with either.

I'll take the

1. Ate tuna when I shouldn't have (making my own up) method
2. large heads study
and
3. he's his momma's boy of course genetic identification study

LOL, this thread is hilarious.

Here is my equation....

Didn't puke during pregnancy but felt a little sick here and there
+ DS has a HUGE head
- DS has brown eyes
+ DS never slept much and barely napped as infant
- teeth came in at avg time
+ DS is tall and a big kid
+ drank lots of water
- didn't play classical music to my belly
x hadn't eaten red meat in 13 yrs and suddenly had cravings for it during pregnancy and ate a jr. whopper with cheese a couple times

= a PG kid

so there you have it. That's my recipe : )

I forgot to add asthma and allergies to mine!

So I get:
morning sickness
+tall
+big head
+asthma
+allergies
+glasses

But lose one for:
Brown eyes
average time teeth
right handed

So I guess that's the recipe for an HG kid... has nothing to do with two HG+ parents at all :-)

DW was tossing starting the 3d week until 6 mos. We'd go for walk and she'd spend half the time inspecting the grass. Mr W has such a big head and long legs, I call him El Melon Con Piernas. He does not sleep much.

Mr W has startlingly blue eyes, very fair, and very pronounced epicanthic folds that he gets from DW.

This makes for some double-takes when he and I are out together as I have dark hair and round brown eyes. Mr W gets a lot of funny looks from Chinese especially.

( It does not help that he has picked up some phrases from "Ni Hao Kailan." )

well that's good for me, but DS5 has the darkest brown eyes ever.

but what if i'm lefthanded, but ds5 is right handed?

What? I thought the eye color was a joke.

We all have blue eyes. Both DS6 and DS4 have out of the charts heads. I had to take DS6 for special follow ups because there were concerns about his head size when he was a baby.

Now could somebody hand me over DS4 IQ so I wouldn't have to bother with testing? What additional info do you need?

Thanks for the giggles.

eyes: DH has dark brown eyes (his father had blue or green, but his mother is south american). His IQ is clearly higher than mine (after all, as he likes to remind me, he scored 0.2 percentile higher on the lsat than I did). I have blue. Three of my kids have brown eyes, two have blue, and there's one still in the oven.

morning sickness: usually I have a bunch of nausea, but the only times I have ever vomited during pregnancy were from a stomach bug or food poisoning.

My 12-month-old seems to be really late with teeth.

We're all short (ok, DH would tell me to speak for myself lOL. So, medium to short).

DH and I are both righties, though we both have left-handed brothers. Two of the older three kids are lefties (my VSLs, big shocker).

Once upon a time I thought I read someplace that large eyes were equated with intelligence (or maybe it was with VSLs). DH and the kids have relatively large eyes.

LOL ... love it. And I was thinking the same thing .. DD should be an idiot by the complete lack of morning sickness I experienced.

Love this thread.

1. no sickness
2. in the 90 to 95% across the board. She is our proportionate child.
3. early cutting teeth
4. blue eyed kid (Dad has blue and Mom has green/hazel (depending on my mood)
5. DD is clearly left-handed which I read somewhere in one of the GT books that gifted kids tend to be right-handed.

Oohhh... maybe we can make up our own wise ... I mean wives tale. Hey, I couldn't resist!

In total agreement here too!