Chinese Beliefs-Pregnancy & Childhood

During research, I was able to locate a list of things the Chinese cultural believe in during pregnancy. This was interesting to me because of the fact that I am expecting a child of my own very soon.

• To avoid a miscarriage, women should not do any heavy work or have sexual intercourse in the first trimester.

• Placing sharp objects on the bed causes the baby being born with a cleft lip or palate.

• Birthmarks and moles are a result of touching glue or adhensive things.

• Talking about others or criticizing will result in the baby looking and acting like the person they did that to.

• Eating shellfish can cause the baby to have rashes and pineapple could assist in miscarraiges.

• To predict if its a girl or boy, Chinese people look at the shape and size of the belly, if its pointed its a boy and if its rounded its a girl.

• Another belief they have is a Chinese Gender Chart to predict the gender.It is said to have an accuracy of over 90% based of the age of the mother at the moment of the baby conception.

• The chart was buried in Beijing in a royal tomb over 700 years ago.

Those are just a few of the things I learned while doing research on the Chinese Cultural and there beliefs with pregnancy.