One more month we offer you the possibility of assessing what is true in the popular belief that says that many women go into labor on the days when there are changes in the moon phase.
A reader, mme_moderniste, told us last month that in her hospital she was told that the days with more births coincided with the rising moon.
We do not know if it will be a coincidence or a certain tendency of that hospital. In any case this month we offer again the lunar calendar for those mothers who want to know the time of delivery (and believe in the possibility that the moon has something to do).
For those who do not know what I am talking about, it is believed 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).
The explanation is that in addition to being mostly water, babies also live in an aqueous medium called amniotic fluid and at each change in the moon 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, that show that there really is no difference with the phase changes and even with a full moon. However, 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 the "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.
I leave the August calendar:
The cycle changes will be as follows:
• Full moon: Day 6 at 00:56 h.
• Waning cycle: Day 13 at 18:56 h.
• New moon: Day 20 at 10:03 h.
• Increasing cycle: Day 27 at 11:43 a.m.
