Best Pregnancy Sites

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 baby calendar.

This calendar is said to have been around for centuries with reports of its discovery dating back between seven hundred to a thousand years ago. They say it was created just for the royals and could guarantee a son in the family if the mother conceived in a certain month. The original calendar is reported to be at the Beijing Institute of Science today.

This pregnancy calculator is said to be based in Yin Yang and some swear by it. It requires knowing the month of conception and the lunar age of the mother upon conception. The tricky part is understanding and knowing the lunar age of the mother in order to get accurate results from the calendar.

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.

The Western and Chinese calendars are two months apart. Every February, the Chinese celebrate Chinese New year, but it falls on a different day each year of that month. Some will go online and use a calculator to determine their lunar age while others will just add one year to their age at time of conception.

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 Chinese 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.

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.