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.
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.
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.
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.