- Don’t tell others you’re pregnant in the first 3 months.
 
	- 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 
	- Don’t do needlework or use scissors around the bed
 Beware of scissors 
	- Don’t eat crab unless you want your baby to have 11 fingers.
 
	- 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. 
	- Avoid people touching you on the shoulder
 
 	- Surround yourself with pictures of beautiful children
 
	- Eat and eat and then eat some more
 
	- Don’t Hammer nails into the wall
 
	- Don’t Stick anything on the wall
 
	- Don’t Sit on the bed to cut anything
 
	- Don’t Place heavy boxes or luggage/suitcases on the bed
 Don't Oopen boxes or luggage/suitcases 
	- Do not sit facing the sharp point edge of a rectangle or square table
 
	- Do not look at frightening or ugly images of animals, monsters, or other fictional characters out there
 
	- Don’t clear any blocked drains;
 
	- Don’t raise one’s hand overhead and hang curtains;
 
	- Don’t watch others while they’re painting walls
 
	- Don’t hammer or knock things beside pregnant women; it will leave a scar on the baby’s face.
 
	- 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
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