Did you feel strongly about what you thought the gender would be and then it was different?
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Anonymous
| I find out next week if I’m having a boy or a girl. Ever since I found out, I have strongly felt like it is a girl and I know I’ll be really sad for a minute if it’s not. Of course I do just want the baby to be perfectly healthy, either way I’ll be happy. I just really feel that it’s a girl!! |
Anonymous
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I was very wrong twice. I thought my first was a boy because I had no symptoms. Second time I thought it was a girl because it was just like my first pregnancy (it was a boy). Third time I had bad morning sickness and guessed girl correctly.
I never found out the genders before birth and that’s a strange thing. You have to be okay with both because you feel a lot of emotions. It’s not just meeting the baby, it’s finding out gender too. Op it’s okay to feel what you feel. But know that both are wonderful and that your view is biased by your own life. I had no clue about boys (I had only sisters) but they are so much fun! |
Anonymous
Thank you so much!! Yes I’d love to wait til birth but I’m way too impatient now. I will definitely love and be very happy if it is a boy, I love the bonds of a mother and son. Thank you I really appreciate your post!! |
Anonymous
| The stats say if you already have a bot your second will be a boy too, so my guess is that you are wrong |
Anonymous
| Gender is a social construct. |
Anonymous
| I felt very strongly that it was a girl and waited until the birth to find out. It was a girl. Felt very glad because that’s what we both wanted. She’s 18 now! |
Anonymous
You are talking about sex. Not gender. |
Anonymous
| So abort it if it’s not the sex you want. |
Anonymous
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I thought my fourth was a girl. I had two boys who were 5 and 6, and a 1.5 year old girl. I really thought I would have another daughter. We did a gender reveal dinner thing with my parents and in-laws. A friend baked the cake, and everyone was silent for a minute when we cut into it and saw that it was blue.
I got over it fast, and he’s my buddy. |
Anonymous
Gender is a social construct. |
Anonymous
| We waited until birth, 1st time, I was huge, not like swallowed a basketball, so I thought girl (also, zero morning sickness - kind of thought people were over-reacting) And, it was a boy. Second time, I was puking for the first 16 weeks and could not keep a thing down and felt miserable. Thought girl, and it was a girl. |
Anonymous
| It's your husband's fault if he shot the wrong sperm. |
Anonymous
| I have been pregnant three times. First was a miscarriage (boy), second was a girl, third was a boy. With my daughter I felt VERY strongly/certain early in the pregnancy it was a girl. With the other two, I did not have that sense of certainty but would have guessed boy. But would have been only mildly surprised to be wrong. With my daughter I would have been shocked to be wrong. I just knew. |
Anonymous
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Not strongly, but with my first I spent the last 6 weeks or so pretty convinced it was a boy, and then she came out and surprised me. With the second I felt more strongly that it was a boy because the pregnancy was very different than the first but I also doubted my "feeling" because I'd been wrong the first time. It was a boy.
So: my intuition has a 50% accuracy rate, which seems about right for the issue at hand. |
Anonymous
| Gender-reveal parties are heteronormative and should be phased out. |