How To Use A Chinese Conception Calendar To Determine Gender Of Baby
When I was pregnant, one of the most common questions everyone asked me was whether I knew if I was having a boy or a girl.
It drove me crazy for months as whenever I asked my gynaecologist to check on the sonar scan, he said he was not sure - one month it looked like it could be a boy, the next he said he that he was 50% sure that it was a girl.
All my friends thought that I was ragging them along and that I wanted to keep it a secret, but in truth I was desperate to know and hated referring to my bump as an 'it'.
From doing the ring test, where you dangle your wedding band over your belly with a strand of hair to see how it rotates, to getting countless opinions from people on how the complexion of my skin and the way in which my weight was distributed could tell me what I was having - all seemed confusing and contradictory to one another.
Perhaps I should have been wiser in not wanting to find out at all and waiting for a surprise.
Then again, it's fun to try and guess and the Chinese Conception Calendar is a good place to start...
What is the Chinese Conception Calendar all about? According to legend, the Chinese pregnancy calendar, also referred to as a chart, was buried in a royal tomb by ancient Chinese mathematicians almost 900 years ago and was just recently discovered, where the original is said to be on display at the Beijing Institute of Science in China.
It is believed to predict your child's gender, based upon your age and the month of conception.
How accurate is it? The chart is based on the Chinese lunar calendar, (i.
e.
according to the moon), where the months are approximately 29 days long.
As such it tends to differ slightly from the Gregorian months we associate as January through to December, however the discrepancy of one or two days will only make a difference if conception is thought to occur at the very end or right at the beginning of certain months.
How it works The calendar is easy to use: just find the line with your age and move along until you reach the month in which you conceived.
Make sure that the age you use is the age you are, or were when you first fell pregnant, and not that which you will be when the baby is born.
If you hit a G block, you're likely to have a girl; or match up with a B and expect a boy.
Did you know? If you are 21 at the time of conception, according to the birth chart, there's not much chance of having a boy.
Fact or fiction? Of course it's just a bit of fun...
or is it? At first I thought so, but then I decided to try out the calculation for myself.
I was 22 when I fell pregnant, with conception occurring in the month of November, and sure to the calendar's prediction - as you will see if you mach the rows and columns - I now have a baby girl! (Admit you were eager to find out?) Luck of the draw, you may say, however I then asked a few friends for their ages and months at the time of conception, and the Chinese pregnancy calendar scored considerably higher than the 50% correct one would have expected when we did the calculations.
In Conclusion While there is no guarantee that the Chinese Conception Calendar will work in every case, the original Chinese birth chart is said to be real and some reports suggest better than 50/50 accuracy.
It drove me crazy for months as whenever I asked my gynaecologist to check on the sonar scan, he said he was not sure - one month it looked like it could be a boy, the next he said he that he was 50% sure that it was a girl.
All my friends thought that I was ragging them along and that I wanted to keep it a secret, but in truth I was desperate to know and hated referring to my bump as an 'it'.
From doing the ring test, where you dangle your wedding band over your belly with a strand of hair to see how it rotates, to getting countless opinions from people on how the complexion of my skin and the way in which my weight was distributed could tell me what I was having - all seemed confusing and contradictory to one another.
Perhaps I should have been wiser in not wanting to find out at all and waiting for a surprise.
Then again, it's fun to try and guess and the Chinese Conception Calendar is a good place to start...
What is the Chinese Conception Calendar all about? According to legend, the Chinese pregnancy calendar, also referred to as a chart, was buried in a royal tomb by ancient Chinese mathematicians almost 900 years ago and was just recently discovered, where the original is said to be on display at the Beijing Institute of Science in China.
It is believed to predict your child's gender, based upon your age and the month of conception.
How accurate is it? The chart is based on the Chinese lunar calendar, (i.
e.
according to the moon), where the months are approximately 29 days long.
As such it tends to differ slightly from the Gregorian months we associate as January through to December, however the discrepancy of one or two days will only make a difference if conception is thought to occur at the very end or right at the beginning of certain months.
How it works The calendar is easy to use: just find the line with your age and move along until you reach the month in which you conceived.
Make sure that the age you use is the age you are, or were when you first fell pregnant, and not that which you will be when the baby is born.
If you hit a G block, you're likely to have a girl; or match up with a B and expect a boy.
Did you know? If you are 21 at the time of conception, according to the birth chart, there's not much chance of having a boy.
Fact or fiction? Of course it's just a bit of fun...
or is it? At first I thought so, but then I decided to try out the calculation for myself.
I was 22 when I fell pregnant, with conception occurring in the month of November, and sure to the calendar's prediction - as you will see if you mach the rows and columns - I now have a baby girl! (Admit you were eager to find out?) Luck of the draw, you may say, however I then asked a few friends for their ages and months at the time of conception, and the Chinese pregnancy calendar scored considerably higher than the 50% correct one would have expected when we did the calculations.
In Conclusion While there is no guarantee that the Chinese Conception Calendar will work in every case, the original Chinese birth chart is said to be real and some reports suggest better than 50/50 accuracy.
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