About to enter the month of February We bring you one more month the possibility of finding out how much is true in the popular belief that says that many women give birth to their children on the days when there is phase changes on the moon.
You will probably have heard it more than once: "Maybe this Sunday you go into labor, that there is a full moon" or someone has explained to you that "that night more women gave birth because there was a moon change" and, although the studies carried out in this regard seem To conclude that there is no relationship between the number of births and the moon, most of the population thinks that the moon does have an effect on us.
Popular belief says that the moon affects pregnant women in the same way that it affects the tides (the tide rises at night due to the gravitational effect of the moon), since babies live in an aqueous environment called amniotic fluid and in each Lunar phase change (and especially with the full moon) the chances of calving increase. As I have already mentioned, there is evidence that this is not the case at the moment, although there is literature that speaks about this subject leaving an open door to the possibility that this relationship did exist for some time.
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. The use of the contraceptive pill, the contamination, the food full of chemistry, the disconnection of the woman with her body, with her sexuality and with the earth, etc. have done that the moon has stopped influencing as I did before.
There is also literature in this regard that says 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 Moon's calendar It can be useful for some women and at the same time a nonsense for others.
Will it be true? I think we'll never know if it really ever happened.
February lunar calendar
The cycle changes will be as follows:
• Waning cycle: Day 5 at 23:50. • New moon: Day 22 at 00:43. • Increasing cycle: Day 14 at 02:52. • Full moon: Day 28 at 16:39.
