Arrives April and as every month we bring you the possibility of knowing what day could pregnant women go into labor according to popular belief that says many women go into labor on the days when there are changes in the moon phase.
Last month a mother contacted us leaving a comment at the March calendar entry and told us that her daughter was born less than a month ago, a night when there was a full moon, leaving accounts one week later.
For those who have a vague idea of what I comment and want to know a little more about what the belief consists of, 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 through the gravitational effect of the moon).
How do you explain
The explanation is that 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.
Some time ago, however, we were able to read an article by a midwife who has analyzed more than 7,300 births and has found common characteristics according to the time of the lunar cycle when the birth occurred.
In addition, when asking people on foot, 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 and means "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.
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.
Lunar calendar of April 2010
The cycle changes will be as follows:
• Waning cycle: Day 6 at 09:38 h.
• New moon: Day 14 at 12:30 pm.
• Increasing cycle: Day 21 at 18:21 h.
• Full moon: Day 28 at 12:20 h.
