Telling The Sex Of A Baby From The Mothers Chinese Age
Wanting to know the gender of a child before it is born is probably as old as the need to make fire. Through the centuries, various methods have been embraced as accurate predictors. These practices include food cravings, a Chinese age chart, swinging objects, and observing the height of the mother’s pregnant belly. Even in the 21st Century where we have reliable medical equipment to show the gender of a fetus, the old wives tales remain popular.
The people of china are said to have created a chart that blends the age of the mother at conception with the month conception took place to find out the gender of a baby. These are so popular they can be found on many internet sites focusing on pregnancies. Somehow the Chinese and predicting the gender of babies seems contradictory, but the chart is one of the most frequently used methods of gender prediction.
The swinging of objects is a popular sex predicting game. In one version, the mother swings her wedding ring above her belly while she lays flat. In the other version, a sewing needle on the end of a new pencil is swung over the mother’s hand. Both games predict circular swings indicate a boy and straight vertical swings are girls. What if the pencil is not a #2? Will the results be clear? Boys must send out the circle vibe because they are so topsy-turvy, whereas girls like to keep straight.
Many mothers claim to have cravings during pregnancy. The old wives came up with tales to predict the sex of the baby around the cravings too. Cravings for sweet foods indicate a little lady, whereas spicy, sour, and salty suggest a lad. One of the old wives must’ve been Mother Goose. The nursery rhyme, “What are Little Boys Made of” has a familiar theme.
Apparently, the heart rate of the fetus is also a determiner of gender. A faster heartbeat predicts a female and slower heart rate is a tell for a male. This old wives tale had to have been born in the 20th Century, hence the use of modern medical techniques such as fetal heart rate monitors and sonograms.
The height of the baby bump on the mother is also said to be an indicator of gender. The babies who sit high are going to be little ladies. The ones who sit low will be lads. This test must be for the moms who don’t care to actually find out the sex using an ultrasound. It seems that by the time the baby is large enough to show whether it is sitting high or low, an ultrasound could been done to get a more definitive result.
There are more old wives tales for predicting gender out there. They range from changes in a woman’s leg hair growth to willingness to eat the heel of a loaf of bread. The Chinese age chart seems random to the average person, but they say it is 90% reliable. Not odds to go and bet the bank on, but women continue to pull out the chart nonetheless. The truth will still only be revealed when the baby is born.