No need to congratulate me on expecting a son or tell me how much easier boys are to raise than girls just yet. What you can congratulate me on is now being open to the idea of having a boy. From the moment we found out we were having a baby we thought it was a girl and it still might be. I blame my husband for my early, uninformed certainty. As I was on the phone in the early morning hours on the Sunday we found out I was pregnant, he peeked his head through the doorway of the kitchen and said, "by the way, it's a girl." Call me gullible, but as soon as he said that I automatically thought, "okay, sure...a girl it is!" We talked about girl names, I looked at girl clothes at the store and I developed an overall mental picture of "our daughter." It wasn't that I preferred a girl over a boy but I just had it in my head that I was carrying a girl. But when this fun little test told me we were having a boy, my mind completely opened up to the idea that this baby could be a little boy.
Now I am less certain of my gut feeling toward either gender. One day I imagine I'm having a boy and the next day I imagine I'm having a girl. We think about both types of names now and I look at both boy and girl clothes in the stores I visit. If you are thinking of taking this test to get some sort of conclusive proof of the gender of your baby, you are wasting your money, time and urine. I feel no certainty about my baby's gender. In less than five weeks we'll have our gender sneak peek ultrasound and know for sure whether to go pink or blue but until then I'll enjoy the teeter-totter ride that is not knowing!
What about you? So many parents find out the gender now, did any of you wait to find out? Or did you have a surprise--as in, the ultrasound said one thing but the baby was the opposite gender?
I never bought the gender test but from what I read is that it can give a false boy result. It's like the tests default. LOL But you have a 50/50 chance it could still be a boy.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was pregnant with Livi I got it in my head that I was going to have a boy. When I found out I was having a girl I was kind of sad. It took me awhile to be okay with having a girl. And even when I did I was always afraid that she would still end up being a boy. I'm paranoid like that. LOL With Jackson I was in shock that he was a boy because we had it in our head that Billy could only have girls. LOL
I can tell you this....it will be a baby. that's for sure.
I personally couldn't wait to find out what we were having. I like to have an idea of what I am in for. Looking back I should have known what I was having. I knew what my children's names were going to be before I found out. With Livi I had a hard time finding a boy's name that I loved. Billy and I couldn't agree on a name at all for a boy. None of them sounded right to me they all just sounded slightly off. He even tried to find different girls names. Before I even knew I was pregnant I came across her name and it seriously almost made me cry (an indicator that I was pregnant) and that was just always her name. With Jackson same thing we decided on a name and even though I tried to think of something better there wasn't a better name for us and I couldn't decide on a girls name for the life of me. I was started to get really paranoid about it but I knew in the back of my mind even though we thought it was going to be a girl I knew it was going to be a boy based on the fact that I already had a boys name picked out. LOL
Boy I can ramble...........