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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a tangent to this-- when I started telling people I was pregnant, I frequently got the question-- "do you want a boy or a girl more?"  Now that I know the sex, people ask me "is that what you really wanted?"  These are just chatty questions, but they give me pause.  I get these questions mostly from people who I'm not THAT close with (coworkers, etc.). This idea of a preference for a particular sex is quite pervasive, I guess?[/quote]

Yep-- and now that I am second the pregnant time, why does everyone assume that the perfect, ideal combination that everyone naturally wants is one boy, one girl? We're not finding out, and everybody tells me in a reassuring voice that it will probably be a boy, since I already have a girl. And if I dare say something like, "Actually, I would love to give my daughter a sister," or "I would love another girl," they look at me and nod knowingly, saying in a condescending voice, "Uh-huh, sure, just as long as the baby is healthy, right?"

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