Dear all. Abit of advise, hope it helps~
all these so called superstitious n old wives tales has no scientific prove etc. But there r many coincidence cases. So to believe or not is really up to individual.
For myself, im the kind who rather believe those harmless ones, better b safe than sorry. I mean, it dosen kill u to go dwn for a walk if anybody in the family needs to do hammering or nailing work right? Totally not using scissors or knifes r too ridiculous. Esp when yr work requires u to.
During my early stage of pregnancy i was working in a bridal boutique. Lots of sewing work. During the mid to later stage i was working as an admin, scissors r not avoidable. My office undergo a small renovation, n my manager chase me out for a walk when they had to do drilling, the renovation area was out of bound for me. Though i very much wanted to help in packing n shifting (dont want pple to say i use pregnancy as an excuse), but my manager 'ordered' me to stay away.
Anyway, what i did was, whenever i have to use knife or scissors or do sewing, i wld whisper, 'baby siam ah mummy needa cut things, siam far far ah'.
My mum's story of the superstitious is that, when u r pregnant, after the fetus is form, usually 12weeks onwards, yr 'baby's spirit' will follow u whereever u go. N when u use scissors or do sewing etc, may accidently cut or sew till the baby. Even when other family members do things like nailing drilling painting, the baby is in the house when u r in the house, so if really cannot avoid, best is u go out so that the baby wont b in the house. That also explain y when u do painting will 'cause' yr baby to have big patches birthmark, drilling will 'cause' baby to have hole on body etc..
I think the cutting sewing part is ok but NVR do it on the bed. Its a big nono.
For those who r worry, talk to yr baby?
Sounds kinda silly but i did that to play safe. I mean though its not that logical, but well, play safe lo..