Scott collects pregnancy advice exchanged between older and younger women, and analyzes the childhood games that deal with birth and babies. She believes that pregnancy advice comes from women's personal experiences with childbirth, and gain validity and legitimacy as a result of that personal experience. She finds that pregnancy advice is a folkloric domain almost entirely exclusive to women, and reflects the distinct separation of gender roles found in most cultures. She concludes by suggesting that pregnancy advice is a type of folklore that is universal in scope. Created by Mary Frances Scott when she was enrolled in Eric Eliason's English 391 course in Fall 2002.