Your Kinderlein come

Scientists still puzzle, which at the end of pregnancy to the beginning of birth pangs triggers. Even midwives and doctors believe that is also the influence of the moon plays a role. At full moon will be very many children come to the World, is an old folk wisdom. And Italian Biomathematics also want to have evidence of this connection is found.

All humbug, now asserts Oliver kiss of statisticians from the University of Halle and demystified the beautiful old myth. Kiss has the data of more than four million births in Baden-Wuerttemberg from 1966 to 2003 and analyzed a total of 470 lunar cycles investigated. It is according to him the world's largest study on this topic, and the result is sobering. "A relationship between lunar phases and births are not," says kiss and thus confirms previous, albeit not as extensive studies. In Maputo in Mozambique were approximately the end of the nineties more than 5000 births analyzed in Florence almost 8000 births in relation to the lunar cycle has been investigated. In the U.S. state of North Carolina scientists had mondzyklischen the circumstances of 500 000 births reviewed. The result was always negative: There was no accumulation of births at full moon, a birth in new or crescent moon is just as likely. Kiss, in 1969 in Swabia was born and studied so that part of his record, has other interesting regularities were discovered. Statistically come at the weekend the least, Mondays and Tuesdays, most children to the world - what could happen if that artificially introduced births often on the week start to be relocated. The month with most births of September. Kiss: "This speaks for a generation in the Christmas holidays, or at least in the dark season."