Predicting the Sex of your Baby with the Chinese Baby Gender Calendar

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 pregnancy calendar.

It has been reported that this calendar was discovered between seven hundred and a thousand years ago. It was created for the royals, so that they could help guarantee a male heir by conceiving at the right time. The Beijing Institute of Science is said to house this calendar today.

Because it is based in Yin Yang, there are many supporters and followers to this calendar. 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 calendar is lunar based and according to that, when you are born you are already one year old. They take into consideration the time you have spent in the womb as part of your age also. At every Chinese New Year, you add one year to your age, no matter what month you were born in. So according to that, if you were born the day before the Chinese New Year, you would be two the next day on that holiday.

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.

Once you have your lunar age and the month of conception, which is easy to deduce by going by your last period, you are ready to take a look at the sex of your future child. Many different sites will have graphs and calendars for you to use, down the left side is a list of ages and the top will be the months. When those two meet, you will see the sex of your child that is predicted.

With some cultures doing all they can to ensure a male child in the family, predictors like this are used religiously to help make that happen. And today the Chinese pregnancy calendar isn't only used by the Chinese, it is gaining popularity worldwide. It doesn't matter whether you believe in that or not, it can be fun to check it out and see how accurate it is for you.

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