Reacting to FILIPINO PREGNANCY SUPERSTITIONS!

hello guys welcome back to the channel welcome to a new video today's video is going to be a lot of fun it is and it's going to be interesting discover some things today yes ever since we announced pregnancy we've had a lot of people messaging us that are from the philippines or living in the philippines that have these kind of are they superstitions or yes things that people believe uh or some people believe here i think um when it comes comes to pregnancy and they're really interesting like i've never heard some of them before a few of them have surprised us quite a lot yeah so when i wanted to do a video today uh find some more and kind of react to them with you guys definitely we were reading the comments on our announcement video and because we went to burakai and announced pregnancy people were sending us messages and commenting these philippines filipino superstitions we've read a few in the comments people actually people kind of say what we say is is this if you're feeling this then this yeah the main one that stood out for us quickly is apparently if you're blooming and looking more beautiful you're having a girl but if you are becoming less attractive is that what they said you're having a boy less attractive or like they were less attractive darker armpits darker armpits there's so many anyway we've found a list i think mine are the same right i think so that would mean girl we're gonna go through them and react to them basically today because we have we've only heard of one of one or two have a look at these today if you know any others comment as well or wherever you're from in the world if you have these superstitions in your country exactly if you live in spain and there's something that spanish people believe is to be true when you're pregnant or about a baby or something like is there any truth to these it they must come from somewhere there must be like a good record of some of these being accurate anyway okay number one this is really unusual and it really surprised me reading these words don't look at ugly people while pregnant so apparently if i start looking at ugly people my baby is going to be ugly okay how do you decide i was ugly like that physically i don't think yeah like it's already it already knows what it's going to look like already that can't be that's already been decided i mean i don't know like firstly it's very mean saying anyone's ugly we would never say that imagine being pregnant and being like oh they're ugly i better not look at them that's so mean i'm not like that okay so if a pr if a pregnant person ever tries to avoid looking at me you know why i know why they think i'm ugly and savage number two so harsh so here is a an article actually written by mccarty medical center that says six pregnancy superstitions debunked so they've gone through them and they're saying scientifically it's not true a pregnant woman's cravings will affect the baby's appearance so another one on what the baby looks like now could there be some science behind this could what because your nutrition grows the baby right yes so could there be like if you're super healthy could your baby look a certain way or if you eat certain type of how do you test that but no because surely the looks just come from the parents yeah i think so i think once they're out what you feed them could affect how they look yeah maybe all right okay so for an example for this one is chocolate or darker colored foods it's said to give the baby a darker complexion while light-colored food like milk is said to contribute to lighter skin but every baby drinks milk yeah i don't think that can be true avoid wearing necklaces or wrapping towels around your neck no no i'm clear i haven't actually won a necklace in a while i mean towels are white harmless accessories worn around the neck according to the superstition will cause the umbilical cord to wrap around the baby's neck so it's kind of like if i do it it's going to happen to them okay it's possible you're not superstitions that's the whole name of the game isn't it yeah it's like people don't do things superstitions are more about what you don't do it's like don't walk on three drains yeah don't don't walk under a ladder don't open an umbrella indoors pregnant women should avoid attending funerals the consequences of the superstition differ depending on which version you hear i'm gonna stop you there i thought this video was light-hearted and a bit of fun but so far this is like quite quite deep isn't it well sorry they're not funny superstitions so hopefully we'll get some good interesting ones the first one was okay so don't go to funerals and don't wear necklaces okay eating twin bananas can increase the chance of having twins so you know like twin food when you crack a egg and you yeah yeah we had a twin banana once in our lives and we vlogged and we were excited about it if you want twins you have to go on a hunt and find all the twin foods but also if you're already pregnant you can't create a twin that's not there oh really i just thought you just do it again and there'll be another baby don't sew or step over ropes to avoid labor difficulties so if i have a hole in my t-shirt i'm not allowed to sew up okay that's so interesting i really want to know where these come from like what age like what generation what they could be like centuries old they will be because it's the old wives tales thing think about it 200 years ago no google so if someone told you can't google it you have to make it up if someone told you not to wear a necklace you're not going to wear a necklace exactly and also if someone said oh it's going to have darker complexion if you eat dark food you're like well yeah that kind of makes sense because i haven't been told anything else i haven't googled through an alternative i haven't read that i'm just fascinated by history yeah it kind of scares me as well think how more advanced we are now yeah because if you want to invent something just google how to invent it even compared to when our parents had kids like when we showed them the scan they're like wow it was so different to when i had babies yeah it's like things have advanced so much although i still think ultrasound come on it's still black and white true i think a coloured ultrasound would be nice if ultrasounds could hurry up with that 4k still looks like 240p you can get 4d sounds so yeah but i think like with cameras these days should be able to see a better image if the pregnant woman has spots or dark areas on the body so dark spots and dark areas i've got freckles right actually i did have a slight dark look here blimey there's a little tiny but i had this this was one of the symptoms i had when i was like oh i could be pregnant because there's something in the pigmentation of your skin you can get random dark patches and i've got two little dark patches here and i found them before i knew i was pregnant so that was something that made me want to take a pregnancy test actually out of interest um so that means what boy baby boy right according to these two spots we're having a boy okay oh this is similar this is what you're saying and on and if the woman appears more refreshed and blooming she's having a girl right okay so i don't know do i appear blooming to you or do i appear worse to you about saying to be honest yeah i feel the same what um will be interesting is when we find out what we are having if we can link back to this video and did any of these things happen well it's gonna it's very likely that what it's gonna be a boy or a girl isn't it so both of these things will be true oh yeah true okay there's something here called usog or the the stranger's evil eye uzog is an age-old filipino superstition the belief states that discomfort like fever floating nausea and vomiting is brought to the baby by a stranger or visitor who is said to have an evil eye oh a simple greeting from the visitor is said to be enough to cause this curse to counter this the stranger would need to say fuera o song while licking his thumb and applying saliva while tracing it across the infant's forehead this superstition has no scientific basis what that sounds like lion king stuff like simba thanks yeah good that does sound weird but that also sounds a bit like there's we did a video a while ago that was requested and it was all about filipino mythical creatures and it sounded a little bit like that like someone's visiting you in your house and it's like this mythical creature was it you song or something the mythical creature what was it called oh sorry i thought you're still talking about that um yeah i do remember oh what was the name awesome yeah something like that if you know that famous filipino mythical creature comment below i can see it as wang or something as oh something like that i don't know and here it says if the child has two hair curls like you know when you have like we'd call it a crown oh yeah like one two like a double crown yeah he or she will be naughty so if it's one we're good if it's two they're gonna be a nightmare okay we'll look out for that that's what we'll be doing on the day of the birth i'll be there with my little book of like superstitions like you're checking are you naughty or not all right those are the superstitions we found online um i think a lot of you wanted us to make this video so hope it was fun us looking at these we're not sure if there's british ones off the top of our head we can't think of any english ones but maybe we'll do some research there's got to be some any line up like phrases you say or like things that we're just used to then we could do another version of english superstitions because obviously we're english in the baby's english or british or whatever let's see if any come true who knows keep an eye on the channel make sure you are subscribed to make sure i felt really sick in the first trimester have you gone in july is that you put this did you do this to my head at night when i sleep no i can confirm i did not do that okay 100 yeah thanks so much for watching please give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed today's video and we'll see you in a vlog very very soon bye [Music] you