God Almighty has enjoined marriage to human beings to multiply and achieve the desired purpose of their presence in this world, namely, the reconstruction of the earth within the provisions and laws that bind its worshipers. As stated in the Almighty’s saying: “Among His signs is that He created for you wives of yourselves to dwell in them.” It is also the stability and tranquility of the couple, which is the bond between them to form a family. A moment in the life of the couple is the moment of hearing the news of the arrival of a new baby for their family. Preparations for this baby begin and the mother starts caring for herself more than before to preserve the health of her baby. There is curiosity in every Of the couple to know the sex of the fetus before it is born.
Knowing the sex of the fetus
It is only God Almighty who knows the sex of the fetus in the womb of the mother, whether male or female; it is the most exalted of his creation and breathed in his soul, and there are some ways through which to predict the sex of the fetus but is not guaranteed; The most prominent of these methods:
- Entering the mother’s age and the month in which the birth is likely to take place to the Chinese calendar, which in turn determines the sex of the fetus.
- Using the method of calculation, by combining the age of the mother with the month in which she is likely to give birth. If the resulting number is a male, the fetus is male, but if this figure is odd, the fetus is female.
- Sometimes the fetus’s sex can be identified by the mother’s tendency to eat certain foods. A mother who tends to eat sweetened foods, fruits and juices is a female fetus, while a mother who tends to salty foods is a male.
- The fetus’s sex can be predicted through the shape of the mother’s abdomen; if it is swollen forward with an increase in weight around its pelvis and thighs, the fetus is female, while its belly is swollen to the top in a spherical shape, its fetus is male.
But the only way to determine the type of fetus is to use the sonar; for its high ability to determine the type of the fetus clearly, can be used sonar after the completion of the third month or the beginning of the fourth month, Because the fetus’s genitals are formed at that time, the doctor can determine the fetus’s sex through careful examination of the genitals, but sometimes it is not possible to know the type of the fetus even using the sonar, because of the position taken by the fetus in his mother’s womb, Asilyh fetus do not appear clearly, and may be the reason there is interference by the umbilical cord.
The sex of the fetus can be determined quite clearly in the sixth month, because its parameters are very clear in this period.