Almost everyone in the family gets excited when the mother is conceiving a child and everyone would also want to know if the baby is a girl or a boy. Knowing the gender of the baby, most couples rush to the store to buy clothes and other things for the baby. This is especially true for new parents.
Today, most couples rely on the doctor’s ultrasound results to find out the sex of their unborn baby. The image of the baby’s body tissues displayed on the machine’s screen is outlined by echo patterns produced by the bouncing of high-energy sound waves off internal tissues and organs.
It is quite interesting to note that long before this modern imaging method was invented, the Chinese in particular had already devised a method of knowing the sex of the baby in advance. They use the layout table.
The conception chart is also known as the Chinese gender chart, Chinese gender birth chart, and Chinese gender selection birth chart. This method of knowing the sex of the expected baby is an ancient method, discovered in the 13th century at a site near Beijing, China. He was buried for more than seven centuries in a tomb believed to have belonged to a Chinese nobleman. If you go to Beijing, you can find that ancient Chinese conception chart at the Beijing Institute of Science.
This graph has two variables: the month the baby was conceived and the age of the mother. It looks like a multiplication table where the rows and columns are headed by the two variables. In the cells below or next to the column and row headers are the letters “B” and “G” that stand for boy and girl, respectively. Months can be placed above and across the grid, while ages are on the bottom left side or vice versa.
The sex of the baby can be determined by crossing the first variable with the second. So, for example, if an 18-year-old mother conceives in September, the baby is a boy as predicted by the conception chart. If a 30-year-old mother conceives in May, the baby is a girl. When the mother is 45 years old and conceives in January, her baby is a girl.
To date, scientists are still skeptical about its accuracy as no scientific study has verified it yet. Science holds that gender is determined by the baby’s chromosomes. Those who believe and use the ancient Chinese conception table method claim that the conception table is 93% accurate.
Trying this method can be fun. Just like in a guessing game, discovering that the chart’s prediction is actually correct after you or your wife has given birth gives you a sense of victory. You can find many copies of this chart online, so just browse the internet to get one and predict the gender of your child in no time. But if you want a very precise and reliable answer, it is best that you go to your obstetrician for an ultrasound.
