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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the oldest of four girls.  I was a preteen when my mom was pregnant with my youngest sister, so I vividly recall all of the questions about the baby's sex that everyone kept asking my parents.  (They chose not to find out -- well, not so much a choice with me, I think no one found out in the late 70s -- but chose with my sisters).  "Hoping to finally get a boy?" or some variation on it was the standard question.  Lots of comments about how outnumbered my dad was, and how surely HE must be hoping for a boy, even if my mom wasn't.

It made a lasting impression on me that their unwavering response was that all they were hoping for was a healthy baby, and that it did not matter in the least if it was a boy or a girl.  My father never gave me any reason to think that he was disappointed in us for not being boys.

I'm pregnant now, and chose not to find out the baby's sex before I ever read any of these threads on "gender disappointment."  OP, I would only invest so much energy in trying to understand my husband if he were acting like yours, except to understand how deep his misogyny goes and if I'd made a mistake in marrying him.  His behavior is just not okay.  Making you feel bad about your pregnancy is not okay.  This is 2012, and he needs to grow up.[/quote]

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