1. Don’t tell others you’re pregnant in the first 3 months.
  2. Re-arrange furniture (especially the bed you sleep on, and other large furnitures)
    No building baby nurseries
    Renovate the house or move to a new home
  3. Don’t do needlework or use scissors around the bed
    Beware of scissors
  4. Don’t eat crab unless you want your baby to have 11 fingers.
  5. Don’t participate in wedding and funeral; these things affect your emotions too much and your emotions affect the baby.
    Don’t touch the bride or even attend weddings
    If you do attend a fuleral wear a red scarf.
  6. Avoid people touching you on the shoulder
  7. Surround yourself with pictures of beautiful children
  8. Eat and eat and then eat some more
  9. Don’t Hammer nails into the wall
  10. Don’t Stick anything on the wall
  11. Don’t Sit on the bed to cut anything
  12. Don’t Place heavy boxes or luggage/suitcases on the bed
    Don't Oopen boxes or luggage/suitcases
  13. Do not sit facing the sharp point edge of a rectangle or square table
  14. Do not look at frightening or ugly images of animals, monsters, or other fictional characters out there
  15. Don’t clear any blocked drains;
  16. Don’t raise one’s hand overhead and hang curtains;
  17. Don’t watch others while they’re painting walls
  18. Don’t hammer or knock things beside pregnant women; it will leave a scar on the baby’s face.
  19. Don’t change the lock of pregnant women’s rooms; the movement required to take a lock out of the door is symbolic of the act of removing a child from the uterus.

Links:
Chinese Pregnancy Traditions and Taboos | Taiwanxifu 台灣媳婦
Superstitions and Practices during Pregnancy | Little Brown Bag
Top 10 Rules for a Chinese Mother-to-beThe World of Chinese | The World of Chinese


last updated 6 June 2014