Chinese Birth Chart

The Chinese Birth Chart, also known as the Chinese Conception Chart, is one of the oldest methods of at-home gender selection. This chart was supposedly discovered more than 700 years ago. Today, the original is kept in the Institute of Science in Peking.

The Chinese Birth Chart is thought to predict gender by cross referencing the mother’s age and the month of conception. The chart is based on the observation that women of the same age seem more likely to have children of the same sex. For example, the Chinese Birth Chart suggests that a 20-year-old woman has a 75% chance of conceiving a boy, while a 21-year-old woman has a 91% chance of conceiving a girl.

However, it’s important to remember that you should use your lunar age and the Chinese lunar month when deciding if your unborn baby will be a boy or girl. If you don’t convert your age and the month of conception, your results are likely to be incorrect. Another common error in using the chart to predict the sex of your baby involves miscalculating your child’s date of conception.

There are many different versions of the Chinese Birth Chart available online. If you’d like to see the complete chart, go to Babyhopes.com. For an easy-to-use version that doesn’t involved lunar month calculations, check out Preconception.com.

If you’re wondering just how accurate the Chinese Birth Chart can be, the answer to your question depends on who you ask. Some people believe the chart is 93% accurate, while others say it’s only about 75% percent accurate. There are also non-believers who are convinced the tally is more around the 50% accuracy range, similar to what you’d find in a completely random method of gender selection.

Although the accuracy of the Chinese Birth Chart is in dispute, it can be great fun to use when you’re trying to add to your family or if you’re already pregnant and haven’t had your ultrasound yet. Just don’t paint the nursery based on the results!

Unfortunately, choosing the sex of your unborn baby is a difficult task. With the exception of artificial insemination, gender selection is the luck of the draw. However, if you’re determined to attempt to tip the odds in your favor, you’ll find no shortage of theories on how to conceive a boy or how to conceive a girl. For example:

• Dr. Landrum B. Shettles’s book to Choose the Sex of Your Baby: The Method Best Supported by Scientific Evidence is based on the idea that sperm carrying the Y chromosome travel faster than sperm carrying the X chromosome.
• Dr. Elizabeth Whelan’s book Boy or Girl? focuses on timing intercourse correctly to produce a baby of the desired gender.
• There are also various urban legends that state changing your diet, having sex on a particular day of the month, or scheduling lovemaking sessions for a particular time of day will produce the desired result.

If you want to see the full chart with an extensive calendar listing the month you are most likely to conceive a boy or girl, read our Chinese Lunar Pregnancy Calendar article.

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