Lunar calendar to know the time of delivery (November 2009)

On the eve of the arrival of the month of November, the most terrifying month of the 12, we bring Babies and more one of the most known and accepted myths in society, which speaks of pregnant women could go into labor on the days when there are changes in the moon phase.

It is likely that you have ever heard it and, if you are already mothers or fathers, someone should have told you that it is most likely that your child was born such day, when there was a full moon.

And one thinks that what bacon will have to do with speed, however, stopping to think, it is easy to find a minimum logic to the subject. It is said that the moon affects pregnant women in the same way that it affects the sea (you know that the tide rises at night due to the gravitational effect of the moon).

Humans are mostly water and babies also live in an aqueous environment called amniotic fluid. It is assumed that with the gravitational changes produced by the moon at each change in the lunar phase (and especially with the full moon) the chances of calving increase.

There are studies in this regard, of which we have already spoken in Babies and more, which conclude that there is no difference with the phase changes and even with a full moon.

A couple of months ago, however, a midwife who analyzed more than 7,300 deliveries explained in an article that she had found characteristics in common according to the time of the lunar cycle in which the birth occurred.

If we ask the popular knowledge and despite the studies that conclude that the relationship between childbirth and lunar cycle is not true, it is observed that two thirds of the population still thinks that the moon does affect and there are books and publications that explain really curious things.

It is said that formerly the menstrual periods went hand in hand with the lunar cycle (which is also 28 days), ovulating the full moon day and menstruating the new moon day. In this way the births were in full moon, and hence today we speak of the full moon day as the most likely. Women who had "changed" cycles menstruating on a full moon were considered witches.

As a curiosity: Menarquia (the first menstruation of women) is a word that comes from the Greek meaning "first moon."

If in the past this was so, why not now?

Apparently over time women (and men) have separated from nature and the earth. The use of the contraceptive pill, the contamination, the food full of chemistry, the disconnection of the woman with her body and with her sexuality, etc. have done that the moon has stopped influencing As it did before, or what is the same, the woman has stopped being affected by the influence of the moon.

I have also read in this regard that when women live in natural environments their ovulation tends to occur during the full moon and the ruler in the dark phase of the moon, as I have commented above. I cannot assure you, because I do not know any woman who lives in a natural environment that can confirm it to me and, in any case, the world has changed, the atmosphere also and the temperature seems that too.

Perhaps for these reasons the lunar calendar can be useful for some women and is at the same time nonsense for others.

Will it be true? I think we'll never know if it really ever happened.

I leave you the November calendar:

The cycle changes will be as follows:

• Full moon: Day 2 at 7:15 p.m.
• Waning cycle: Day 9 at 3:57 p.m.
• New moon: Day 16 at 7:15 p.m.
• Increasing cycle: Day 24 at 9:40 p.m.

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