Discover the secrets to using a Chinese Pregnancy Calendar to determine the sex of your child.

The Chinese Pregnancy Calendar is based on the twelve months that run through the year. The months are listed in order from January to December across the top. The Chinese Pregnancy Calendar is based on the Lunar Calendar from China.

This Lunar Calendar is very different from the Gregorian calendar other countries use today. The way the Lunar Calendar works, is very interesting. The recording of dates and the four seasons are based on the Lunar Calendar's own system. A new moon happens on the first day of the new lunar month, because the Chinese Lunar Calendar is the basis for the Pregnancy Calendar, the months are slightly different than the more common Western Calendar.

To begin using a Chinese Pregnancy Calendar, you need to know the exact age of the woman during the time of conception. When you know the age, add one. Jot down the month when the fetus was conceived, then exchange the Gregorian month for the correct Lunar month. Looking at the top portion of the Chart, find the age of the woman plus one in the column on the left side.

Draw a line to meet up with the month the baby was conceived. Where these two coordinates intersect look for the corresponding box labeled for boy or for girl. Newer calendars may say m for male and f for female.

A Chinese Pregnancy Calendar can be a fun tool to use and has reported over ninety four percent accurate predictions! Some people have reported using the Calendar and having one hundred percent accuracy while others have reported only one of their children have been correctly conceived. Today, people all across the globe use the Chinese Lunar Pregnancy Calendar as a fun opener to baby showers only!

The story behind the Chinese Pregnancy Calendar sometimes called the Chinese Conception Calendar reports that nearly one thousand years ago this exact Conception Calendar was buried in a royal tomb. Today it is reported this same Calendar is now on display at the Beijing Science Institution!

In China, the need to have a male heir has been a very strong necessity for a happy family. It is said that families who have male heirs, receive the gift of a daughter-in-law. Leaving the originating home of the daughter empty.

The Chinese Conception Calendar is surmised to have been created not to predict the gender of the newly conceived baby, but more in the way to give the parents a way to choose their baby's gender by conceiving their next child during a certain time of the month that is strong in the male direction. Of course everything was dependent on the age of the mother-to-be at the time of conception or so many people assume.

Even today, in the new world and culture of China, having a male heir is one of the most important issues parents face. Too many parents have conceived babies that are female and have been disappointed. This phase of child rearing has lead many parents back to the use of a proper Chinese Pregnancy Calendar for the next infant.

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