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 sex 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 results of a doctor’s ultrasound to find out the sex of their unborn baby. The image of the baby’s body tissues shown on the machine screen is outlined by the 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 people in particular had already devised a method of knowing the sex of the baby in advance. They use the conception table.

Conception chart is also known as Chinese gender chart, Chinese birth gender 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 in a place near Beijing, China. He was buried for more than seven centuries in a tomb believed to belong to a Chinese nobleman. If you go to Beijing, you can find that ancient Chinese conception table at the Beijing Institute of Science.

This table has two variables: the month in which 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 headings there are letters “B” and “G” representing boy and girl respectively. The months can be placed at the top and cross of the grid, while the ages are on the left side down 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 remain skeptical of 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 chart method claim that the conception chart is 93% accurate.

Trying this method can be fun. Like in a guessing game, finding out that the table’s prediction is actually correct after you or your wife have given birth gives you a sense of victory. You can find many copies of this table online, so surf the internet to get one and predict your child’s gender in no time. But if you want a very accurate and reliable answer, it would be best to see your obstetrician for an ultrasound.