If you could pick the sex of your child/children

[Anonymous]

Would you?

Which sex would you pick?

If you have 2+ children which sex would you pick to be born first?

Does t matter to you at all?



In theory, I would pick son and daughter, but I have primarily only seen myself with a daughter(s). I think I only envisioned myself one with a son. But if I picked I think it would go son , then daughter, and I think that is for no other reason than I have an older brother, and it worked out nicely in my family of origin.

[Anonymous]

I would have someone else randomly choose.

[Anonymous]

You can find good and bad examples of every combination. It really isn't about gender or order of birth of the genders; it is about personality and life experience of the child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can find good and bad examples of every combination. It really isn't about gender or order of birth of the genders; it is about personality and life experience of the child.

Yes of course. That's a nice answer, but it's not the answer to the question that was asked.

[Anonymous]

If you could? You technically can. Look at Elon Musk. Selects only for boys with IVF.

[Anonymous]

I always saw myself with girls, but now have boys and wouldn’t have it any other way. So if I had to do it all over again and got to choose, boys.

[Anonymous]

Selective abortion and feticide didn’t work out so well for India:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5341607/

Let nature decide. Cultural preferences are dumb.

[Anonymous]

I would have chosen all girls. I have girl/boy now. While having a boy has been lovely and I’m glad I didn’t get my way, still hoping for the 3rd to be a girl!

[Anonymous]

I would think doing this would end you up with whatever characteristics you didn't want, since it's so stereotypical - ie, a nonathletic boy or transgender boyish girl. Beware (yes, I know it's not real).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you?

Which sex would you pick?

If you have 2+ children which sex would you pick to be born first?

Does t matter to you at all?



In theory, I would pick son and daughter, but I have primarily only seen myself with a daughter(s). I think I only envisioned myself one with a son. But if I picked I think it would go son , then daughter, and I think that is for no other reason than I have an older brother, and it worked out nicely in my family of origin.

All girls.

[Anonymous]

Boy-boy-girl. Exactly what I have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have chosen all girls. I have girl/boy now. While having a boy has been lovely and I’m glad I didn’t get my way, still hoping for the 3rd to be a girl!

Your poor son.

[Anonymous]

All boys. I have all boys and love them. Maybe 2 girls.

[Anonymous]

If I could choose #of kids and sex and order, I’d have 4 kids: 2 boys followed by 2 girls. But my spouse only wants 2 kids, which we have and we have one son and one daughter. I’m glad we have one of each sex even though I also would have been happy w 2 boys or 2 girls. I agree w a pp that the sex/gender doesn’t matter to me but the personality does. I’m lucky I got two kids who are funny, sweet, thoughtful, smart, creative, interesting people.

[Anonymous]

I wanted a daughter, so I hoped for a girl first so I wouldn’t worry about disappointment with the second. Got a girl first then never was able to have a second. At this point I’d choose a second girl, but would defer to DH if he wanted a boy. (This was a real conversation during all of the IVF we did.)