Will it be a boy or a girl? Myths and legends about the sex of the baby according to the Mayans and the grandmothers.

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That curiosity that invades us every day when we are pregnant, knowing the sex of our baby intrigues us and the feeling intensifies even more thanks to our family and friends when they begin to ask and imagine a world of possibilities. Some of this leads them to use peculiar and curious methods that have no scientific basis, but our grandmothers believe it without any doubt, because they already had their own home tests to have a slight light on the sex of the child. Thanks to them and to the Mayans, today we can enjoy these traditions and have access to this unreliable information, but which apparently makes us a little curious.

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MAYAN TABLE

Speaking of myths, first of all we have a method called the Mayan pregnancy table , we already know that they had the ability to predict the exact day that pregnant women would give birth. This method is based on the 13 moon calendar and consists of taking the age you were at the time of conception (in the left column of the table) and the month in which you became pregnant (upper row in the table). ). In the event that you are not sure of the precise month, you must add 14 days to the last day of your period.

BAKING SODA TEST

Secondly, we have this test that consists of an experiment that is not scientific, but if you google it, you will see many tutorials from people who have done it in real life. This method is very easy, it consists of collecting a little of the first pee in the morning, preferably in a container that is a glass, later you must add the same proportion of bicarbonate, if many bubbles are produced, it indicates that you are expecting a child , Otherwise , it would indicate that it is a girl . Keep in mind that the results you obtain may not be true as they lack scientific studies to make it so.

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