Revealing The Chinese Pregnancy Calendar
The Chinese pregnancy calculator is considered one of the most accurate of all the wive’s tales. Many couples use this calendar to predict the sex of their child even before an ultrasound. It has been said that the calendar can predict with a 97% accuracy rate.
To use the calendar, simply find the mother’s age and add nine months. The age ranges from 18-45. Then you will find the month you conceived and go to where the two columns meet. There you will find either a B for boy or a G for girl. Although it can be used to predict the sex of one child, it is not known how to predict the sex for multiples using the calendar.
Having a first born son was very important to cultures in the past. The pressure to secure your heir was very heavy in places like China. The calendar was used in helping predict this for centuries. Over 700 years old, it was found in an ancient tomb near Peking. Having your first born as a boy also helped in owning and keeping land. Because of this fact, the calendar became heavily relied on in those days.
Theories as to why this calendar was created are many. It is unknown as to why it was created. Thoughts are that people relied on this to tell them what sex their child would be before ultrasounds were available. It is a known fact that it is based on the Chinese Lunar Calendar.
Most families would use the calendar to find out when they should try to conceive for a boy. They would calculate the mother’s age and then try in those particular months that the calendar says they would have a male child.
This is not a scientific method, yet it is considered to be accurate by most. Parents trying to guess the sex of their unborn child should only use this in fun and as entertainment. Wive’s tales such as weight gain, cravings the mother gets, and how the baby is carried have been passed down from generation to generation.
The first calendar can be found in the Beijing Institute of Science today. It is visited by many tourists each year. It is also very popular through the internet. Many people go online to try out the calendar through different websites to see what it says.
There are still several people around the globe that rely on the Chinese birth calendar to confirm their chances of having a boy or a girl. The most accurate way is still to have your doctor perform the ultrasound. For some fun, you can go to several websites that offer the chart and see if it is correct for your family.
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