<p>The opposite of red shirting. I get the logic for red shirting, I don’t get the logic here. I imagine there is some kind of cultural thing I’m misunderstanding.</p>
<p>the number 4 is homophone to “death” in mandarin, whereas “8” sounds similar to the word for auspicious.</p>
<p>crossposted with Dad<em>of</em>3. so i guess it’s also the same for cantonese.</p>
<p>Numerical Feng Sui…</p>
<p>I understand the tax thing…numerical Feng Sui is beyond my comprehension</p>
<p>The Western world has its own version of numerical feng sui: number 13 is not very popular over here in the US. :)</p>
<p>^^ True…</p>
<p>[Patience</a>, Mom: More Hospitals Say No to Scheduled Delivery Before 39 Weeks – TIME Healthland](<a href=“http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/26/patience-please-39-weeks-is-the-new-thinking-about-when-to-deliver-babies/]Patience”>Patience, Mom: More Hospitals Say No to Scheduled Delivery Before 39 Weeks | TIME.com)</p>
<p>I just read this article last week. It’s about time that C-sections for the convenience of physicians and mothers are curbed.</p>
<p>I also read this past week that the U.S. infant mortality rate is increasing, in part due to prematurity. Some women aren’t willing to let their pregnancies go full-term because it is inconvenient.</p>
<p>S2 was due December 29th. I had a doctors appt. that morning and the doctor asked me did I want him to induce labor for the tax credit. I said no thanks, left the office and took S2, then 2 1/2 downstairs to the pediatrician’s office where he was diagnosed to with strep throat. By the time S2 was born a week later he was all better and life was good at our house.</p>
<p>On the numerical feng shui thing…where we live, with a very high proportion of families from China buying real estate these days, city hall has had a HUGE number of requests to change address numbers! So much so they are no longer accepting requests. I think its not the owners making the changes but rather those hoping to attract buyers to their soon-to-be-listed properties.</p>