Mama B's Blog: January 2013

As most of you know I requested some info from you on facebook. I wanted to know how old you were when you got pregnant, what month you got pregnant in and if it was a boy or girl. What?!! Why would I want to know that you might ask....

Well, we we're discussing the Chinese gender chart and the accuracy of it. Most places say that it is 93% accurate. If it's that accurate then why in the heck doesn't EVERYONE use it to get pregnant? That's a big percentage...really? Is it possible.

So instead of doing my homework or cleaning the house I launched a little research project. Here are the results!

51 babies were documented in this study.

Great care was taken that the information provided was accurate

The age range for the volunteers was 19-55 (When they gave me the info not when they got pregnant)

I used the chinese gender chart athttp://www.momswhothink.com/pregnancy/chinese-birth-chart.html

Ok so when I first started collecting data most of the people responding were all correct! WHAAATTT? How did I not know about this Chinese gender chart. The more responses I got the more "wrongs" I got. I was at about 77% when I talked to my sister who explained:

"The gender chart was created a bazillion years ago. Back in the day, months and years were tracked differently. So by using your current age, it will be incorrect. You need to go in and calculate your lunar calendar age." More information found at http://www.chinesegenderchart.info/.

CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! All that time and effort and info wasted! Then I read that most current charts take into consideration the change in months/years/calendars. So I decided to continue the research the way I had planned anyway. Here's what I found....

The chart was 63% accurate...A little higher than normal but nothing huge!

With all my data collected I also found out:
Kids don't want to hear about when their parents got knocked up!

As a parent it's fun to remember exactly "when" we got pregnant ("Fourth of July baby, husbands birthday, brother-in-laws graduation, drunken moment, college graduation, trail ride, or simply a week moment")

There were certain months that were more "popular" to make a little munchkin! Apparently June, September and November are a "No nookie" kind of time as each month only made 1 baby a piece. May came in first with 7 babies from my study to be conceived then and following close behind were April and May.

So, what have I learned from this? If you want a baby it shouldn't solely be because you want a boy or a girl! It's because you want to bring another beautiful (hopefully) being into this world to love and raise and care for! It's not in our hands. God will give us exactly what we intended to!

P.S. Many of you asked if there is baby 4 in the works for the Bensen's..... This began as a small conversation about how accurate it was not when Jen could get a girl.....Maybe.....

Ohhh! I should write about New Years Eve and how our traditions have changed and how were old now and we go to bed at 12:15.

No wait! I know! I'll write about my best friends that I didn't even pick! My husbands lifelong friends just happened to marry pretty amazing women who I have grown to know and love and are truly my best friends.

Hmmm. Does anyone really want to read about that? Maybe I should just post the slide show I made of 2012 in review...No one reads these things anyway.

Oh crap! 2 days ago was Blake's birthday! How is it possible that he is already 2? I should make a tribute to Chewy and talk about how he's changed our life & post some fun pictures of him!

But.....Beau shared with me this "aching head, sore muscles, stomach churning making me think I will have to run to the bathroom at any moment but this is my first day back to work, I can't be sick" CRAP!

Since I can't decide here's all my randoms combined in an unorganized meaningless blog! Enjoy!

2012 in Review Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKG4so5bJ3I&feature=youtu.be

Christmas Program at Church: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9__ns3IRqi0

Christmas Program at School (Cole's in blue & yellow inbetween the Santa's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6XbtnvRoW8