The Chinese Pregnancy Calendar And The Gender Of Your Baby
Predicting the sex of a baby has been a popular topic of women for centuries. They have tried many different methods and old wives’ tales to accomplish this, everything from a ring or other object on a string to how high or low a belly is during pregnancy. The Chinese are centuries ahead of everyone with their Chinese baby calendar.
The Beijing Institute of Science is said to hold the original calendar that can predict the gender of a baby before conception. Some say it was discovered around seven hundred years ago while others say closer to a thousand. It is rumored to have been created for the royal families so that they could guarantee a son in the family.
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.
The Chinese use a calendar that is lunar based and they believe that when you are born you are already one year old because they add the time you were in the womb onto your age. When Chinese New Year comes around, you gain another year to your age, even if you born just the day before that holiday. So a child that is born the day before that celebrated day will find themselves two years old on just their second day in the world.
There is a two month difference between the Chinese and the Western calendar and February is the Chinese New Year, not January. And it falls on a different day that month each year. Some find it easier just to add one year to their age to figure out what their lunar age is but you can go online and use the calculators specially designed for this to determine your true lunar age.
Finding the month of conception is easier, you may not be able to know the exact date but the month is usually when you missed your last period. Now you have your lunar age and your month of conception in hand, you can go to a variety of online sites to see the calendar. You go down the graph till you find your lunar age, then across to the month of conception. Where those two lines meet is the gender of the baby you are going to have.
The popularity of finding out the sex of a baby before conception or after is very important in cultures that rely on a male heir in their family. Whether you need to know or just want to have fun, a Chinese gender calendar is something that most will swear to and say it is very accurate while others will always hold doubts.