Category: Child Birth

The Chinese birth calendar was discovered relatively recently, and had been buried in a Chinese tomb for 700 years. It is now on display at Beijing University and is something of a curiosity, although many people rely on it to predict the gender of their children. It has been said the Chinese birth calendar is 93% to 99% effective, although there are many who claim that it was not predictive in their cases. The Chinese Birth calendar looks quite simple and predicts whether a baby will be a boy or a girl depending on the mother’s age and which month the baby will be born.

Although ultrasound is the main device for indicating the gender of the baby, there are often mistakes in ultrasound exams, and many girls who have been born in recent years were thought to have been boys in the womb and vice versa. In addition, many more people are avoiding having routine ultrasound performed because of risks to the fetus and for religious reasons. These people do not have other means of predicting the gender of their babies and may use the Chinese birth calendar to see whether they are having a boy or a girl. The Chinese birth calendar enables a couple to know from conception what the gender will be, whereas ultrasound results are inconclusive until the middle of the pregnancy.

It is not advisable to go out and buy all blue clothes or all pink pajamas based on the results of the Chinese birth calendar, but it can provide one with an idea of what gender the baby will probably be. Couples who are really wanting a boy or a girl in particular can plan conceiving their child around the Chinese birth calendar. Based on whether the child will be a boy or a girl in a particular birth month, the couple may try to conceive or avoid conceiving at a particular time.

The Chinese birth chart was found in a tomb in Beijing, China, and had been in the tomb. The famous chart is now at Beijing University and is quite an interesting artifact. Based on a mother’s age and the month a baby is born, the chart predicts whether the baby will be a boy or a girl, apparently with 93% accuracy. The Chinese have known for centuries what we can only figure out in the modern age with ultrasound (and even then, ultrasound is not foolproof).

But since women find out the gender of their baby through routine ultrasound, what is the use of the Chinese birth chart in this day and age? First of all, not everyone has routine ultrasound. Because of purported risks and for religious reasons, many mothers will only do an ultrasound exam if there seems to be a problem, and will not go through ultrasound as a matter of course. These women will not find out in advance the gender of their baby, and may use the Chinese birth chart to predict whether they will give birth to a boy or a girl. Since ultrasound may not always be accurate for predicting gender, it may be that the Chinese birth chart is right at least as often as ultrasound. The Chinese birth chart will tell you whether it is a boy or a girl before an ultrasound will predict it, and couples who especially want a boy or a girl can plant to conceive a child accordingly by looking at the Chinese birth chart.

Is the Chinese birth chart accurate? Many people feel that the chart is correct, although there is not a 100% success rate. Certainly, no one should start making major purchases of all blue clothes or all pink pajamas based on the results from the chart, however, it is possible that radical moves should not be based on ultrasound results either. Those who do not want to know the gender of their baby ahead of time must practice restraint and avoid the temptation of looking at the Chinese birth chart.