Get ready with the blue...?

I am getting more and more unsolicited comments from strangers that this is a boy based on the way I am carrying. The TSA woman at LaGuardia last weekend is positive it's a boy. And her colleague is pretty sure it's not just one boy, but two. (Yes, this is the third and fourth TSA opinion I have gotten -- maybe they have X-ray vision in addition to X-ray machines?) The cashier at Chipotle agrees. And my cab driver coming back from LaGuardia too. "I am going to drive extra careful to protect that baby boy of yours," he tells me. (Interesting that he wouldn't drive extra careful just to protect me!) But he didn't stop there. "Yep, it's a boy, and he's going to be born on Friday." "THIS Friday?" I asked, because of course, I am entirely not ready for a baby showing up five weeks early. "No, just another Friday," he said, shaking his head at me as if I'm crazy for not believing him. Riiiiiight, I'm the crazy one -- you're the one that is making predictions about a total stranger's baby!

All of these opinions have made me wonder -- does the way you carry really make a difference in the sex of the baby? It just doesn't make any scientific sense to me. I decided to research it by taking an informal poll of my friends and family who have had both a boy and a girl. Here are the results:

-- My friend Colleen (has a boy and a girl): carried differently in her pregnancies
-- My friend Susannah (has a boy and a girl): carried differently
-- My cousin Tammy (has two girls and a boy): carried differently for all three
-- My cousin Sandy (has a boy and a girl): carried the same way ("just big," she says)
-- Kevin's cousin Marcy (has a boy and a girl): carried the same way
-- Random Debevoise secretary (has a boy and a girl): carried the same way (but then went on to tell me the only difference in her pregnancies was how often she had to shave her legs -- with her daughter, hardly ever; with her son, she "was an ape". Um, too much information, thanks.)
-- Sarah Palin (has two boys, three girls): carried the same way in all of her pregnancies (okay, so I don't know if this is for real, but I did dream that I met Sarah, and this is what she told me!)

I will let you all draw your own conclusions.

UPDATE: Let me know how you carried if you have had more than one baby!
-- Kevin's aunt Rita (has three girls): carried differently every time (and every time, people said it was a definitely a boy)