Many parents want to know the sex of their baby in advance. Can the Chinese calendar, which many mothers refer to today, provide accuracy in this regard?
Who is this little person who will bring joy and many sleepless nights to his parents? Will it be a girl or a boy? If you're one of those people who don't want to wait until your doctor's ultrasound scan reveals the baby's gender, you might want to use the Chinese pregnancy calendar, which is said to have a fairly high predictive rate.
The sex of the new baby is already determined at the time of fertilization, but female and male embryos develop in the same way until the 7th week of pregnancy. After that, children develop their testicles and testosterone is produced. In girls, development begins a little later, that is, from the 10th week of pregnancy. From the 11th week of pregnancy, both girls and boys begin to develop their genitals. While gynecologists have already been able to spot trends here, the margin for error is rare. An ultrasound examination between the 19th and 22nd weeks of pregnancy can reveal the baby's gender. If the baby is in the correct position and does not always bend one leg so that it does not obscure the view of the genitals or even does not turn his back on the ultrasound. Then you may need to be patient until the next examination.
If you can't wait to find out the baby's gender, you may want to use the Chinese pregnancy calendar to find out. You can do this shortly after conception or even when planning a pregnancy.
Some sources say that the Chinese calendar has an accuracy of 85%.
There are various rumors about the creation of the calendar: One says that the Chinese scientist Xià Lì designed it in the early 13th century. Others believe that the conception calendar is only 300 years old and was once developed to assist the imperial family with family planning. Reproduction of male offspring was vital to the survival of the dynasty, so it is said to be subject to strict secrecy at the outset.
However, various historians question these theories, and even experts who are heavily involved with the healthcare system in China state that the conception calendar is fictitious. If you want to predict the gender of your baby using this interesting method, let's move on to the calculation method.
This calendar, in which the sex of babies can be calculated, is a combined solar and lunar calendar. The expected sex of the child is determined by the age of the expectant mother (at the time of conception) and the month of conception.
The first step is to calculate the moon age of the mother. For this, 266 days are added to your date of birth, which corresponds to the duration of pregnancy . This month is aligned with the month at which her age was later conceived.
For example, a 25-year-old woman received the good news that she was pregnant in June. Let's say his birthday is in August; accordingly, he needs to add 266 days to his birthday to find the moon age. In this example, the moon age is 26. The baby's birth date is in May - so look at the chart of the Chinese calendar to see what gender the baby should be at the age of 26 months in May - the baby in the example will be a girl!
The claimed accuracy of about 85 percent, repeatedly reported, is now in doubt. Professor Eduardo Villamor of the University of Michigan reviewed data on more than 2.8 million births that took place in Sweden between 1973 and 2006.
Villamor compared the babies' actual sex with predictions from the Chinese calendar and found a hit rate of only around 50 percent . In her study, she wrote in 2010 that the Chinese pregnancy calendar "is no better than flipping a coin at determining the sex of a baby."
But differing opinions and beliefs should not prevent anyone from trying the Chinese pregnancy calendar and checking later if they are right. There is always a grain of truth in the generation-to-generation methods used to predict the baby's sex. Only by trying can you find out the answer to the question of whether your baby will be a boy or a girl according to the Chinese calendar .
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