you ladies are too funny! i think its just a stupid old wives tale thats just for fun, it just happened to work for me. but hey i have a magic 8 ball! if you want to know the gender i can shake it and ask for you. i will be right 50% of the time too!
i don't think the candy cane veins matter. mine are straight vertical lines that just happen to be at 7 and 5 in my left eye and i was confirmed boy last weekend, although my mother says shes doesnt' believe it and anything before 20 weeks is just a lucky guess. but i swear i saw a penis. its a boy, my mother is crazy.