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[quote=Anonymous]Ignore everyone OP. You're entitled to your feelings. It's really hard not to project our pasts to some degree onto our futures- I think it's something we all struggle with. Even good family dynamics can be toxic in creating expectations for future generations that may or may not be fulfilled.

I'm currently pregnant and don't know the sex because I wanted to envision both and get myself excited about the possibility of either sex. When my pregnancy started, I definitely had a strong preference for a girl. While I'm not the kind of person who strongly envisioned a particular or specific life for myself (i.e., gender or number of children), my mom had one daughter and so did her mom, and so I did feel some connection to that past. But now that my due date is around the corner, I think having a boy could be pretty cool too! I have thought about the moment of hearing it is a boy and considered that I may feel some disappointment but part of not finding out in advance is that hopefully in that moment I'll be so out of it/relieved/dumbstruck that I won't care lol. Good luck![/quote]

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