The Chinese Pregnancy Calendar And The Gender Of Your Baby
The first thing many women wonder when they find out they are pregnant is what the sex of the baby will be. Their friends and family may try many of the old wives’ tale methods to help discover the gender by using a needle on a string or seeing how high the belly is when the mother starts to really show. The Chinese have their own method of doing this by using a Chinese birth calendar, usually before even conceiving the child.
It has been reported that this calendar was discovered between seven hundred and a thousand years ago. It was created for the royals, so that they could help guarantee a male heir by conceiving at the right time. The Beijing Institute of Science is said to house this calendar today.
Because it is based in Yin Yang, there are many supporters and followers of this pregnancy calculator. All you need to know is the month that the mother conceived and her lunar age at that time. Lunar age isn’t something many are familiar with, but it is necessary for accurate results.
Taking the time you were in the womb, according to the lunar calendar you were already one year old when you were born. Then no matter the month and day you were born, at each Chinese New Year you gained another year, so if you were born the day before a Chinese New Year, you ended up being two years old in your second day out of the womb.
The Western and Chinese calendars are two months apart. Every February, the Chinese celebrate Chinese New year, but it falls on a different day each year of that month. Some will go online and use a calculator to determine their lunar age while others will just add one year to their age at time of conception.
Knowing the month of conception is easy since you can use the date of your last period as a guideline, and with that information and your lunar age in hand, you can then figure out the gender of your unborn baby. Online you’ll find a variety of graphs to use, down the side is the age of the mother and across the top is the month of conception. When you have those two lines meet, you are shown the sex of the baby.
With some cultures doing all they can to ensure a male child in the family, predictors like this are used religiously to help make that happen. And today the Chinese baby calendar isn’t only used by the Chinese, it is gaining popularity worldwide. It doesn’t matter whether you believe in that or not, it can be fun to check it out and see how accurate it is for you.