“I certainly don’t feel 99 years old, that’s for sure.”
As Thomas Rhett’s fans patiently wait for the arrival of his newest bundle of joy, they’ve also been making some predictions.
Some fans have now been chiming in with their guesses as to whether he and his wife Lauren Akins are having a baby boy or a baby girl.
So far, the couple have four daughters, Willa Gray, 10, whom they adopted, Ada James, 8, Lennon Love, 5, and Lillie Carolina, 4.
Despite Rhett being a very proud girl dad, some fans are fully convinced the couple are having a boy this time around.
On December 14, Rhett posted a picture on Instagram of him and his wife with her standing to the side, fully showing off her baby bump.
With her belly on full display, fans began commenting their sex predictions based on the shape and position of her bump.
Leaning on old wives’ tales, with Akins’ bump being high and round, the majority of predictors leaned towards it being a boy.
“That’s a boy belly!!!” one fan commented eagerly on the post.
Another added, “haha…a baby boy coming, for sure!! 🥰”
However, plenty of others refuted the prediction method as inaccurate, often citing their own experiences.
“I had a boy belly and my daughter is currently jumping on my head,” one mom commented.
In fact, when you look up the myths, some sources will even tell you the opposite, that high bellies predict a girl and low bellies predict a boy!
As Healthline explains, “How you carry your pregnancy — both the size and shape of your belly — has to do with a number of factors… none of which indicate the sex of your baby.”
The fact is, the position and shape of your baby bump mainly have to do with two things, your abdominal muscles and torso.
Women who are experiencing their first pregnancy and/or are in very good physical shape tend to carry higher because of their abdominal muscle strength, while those who don’t have strong, tight abs, either due to lower physical fitness or past pregnancies stretching them out, will carry lower.
Additionally, the shape of the bump relies mostly on the mom’s torso length.
Women with short torsos will generally have a rounder bump, while women with longer torsos will have a bump that looks more spread out.
At the end of the day, there are only two standard, reliable ways to know your baby’s sex with scientific accuracy: asking your doctor to do a blood test or an ultrasound.
