Neil and I are expecting a baby on September 28, 2010. Although unexpected, we are very thrilled for all the changes that will be happening in the next several months.
Even after getting a "Big Fat Positive" 5 times, it still didn't seem real. Once we went to the doctor and heard the baby's speedy heartbeat, it pretty much confirmed that things were real.
After keeping it a secret for well over a month, we decided that we needed to start telling people, at least our families. This would make it easier to handle/deal with, not to mention planning a wedding is warp speed time! Of course as soon as we told my family, my step-mom wanted to start doing ultrasounds to see our little one.
This brings me to the question for today. Is baby a girl or a boy? No doubt, if anyone knows Neil, even a little bit, they know that he's dying for a son! I would love to give him one, but as anyone who has taken a basic A&P class knows, the daddy's little spermies are the ones that determine whether or not baby with be a boy or a girl. Immediately, everyone thinks that I want a daughter. Is it because I'm a girl? Is it just something that people assume? I don't know. After contemplating this for a long time and knowing that either sex would be fine with me as long as baby is healthy, I began thinking more, would I really prefer one sex over the other?
Girls would be fun. You get to put bows in there hair and they get to wear cute little spring dresses, yadda, yadda, yadda. The I started thinking on down the road. Girls go through drama throughout their entire lives. They have to start their periods and get in knockdown dragouts with their best friends and cry over the boys that won't go out with them. OH MY GOD! Am I ready to deal with being a counselor for my daughter the rest of my life?
Boys, on the other hand, dress in t-shirts and play shorts, have cheaper quicker haircuts, and when they get in fights, they usually get black eyes rather than broken hearts. They also usually make up with that "best friend" that they just beat the crap out of two days earlier. While there are some parts in their lives when boys get their hearts' broken, they bounce back period is much shorter.
With this being said, I would love a daughter or a son no matter what. This isn't the only child we're going to have and chances are, we'll have the "opposite sex" at some point in time and things will equal out.
For the sake of Neil's sanity, I hope there's a boy inside of me, but for those you who are still holding out for bows and prom dresses, I will do what I can to make it a girl. :)
Stay tuned for the sex announcement next week!
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