This isn't a rant, I'm genuinely intrigued at the reactions I'm getting to the news that we don't want to know the sex of the baby this time around.
With ds, friends and family understood that we wanted it to be a surprise, especially having had an ectopic before becoming pg with ds. However, we've just had our 20 week scan (after a further 3 mcs between ds and this pg) and the comments from family are VERY different. The logic appears to go that with our first child it 'didn't matter' as we had no children of either sex, but with the second it somehow now does matter, that we 'must' have a preference.
We don't, especially as we feel blessed to have got this far at all. We genuinely have no preference . But, if we did, what good would finding out do? If it was the 'wrong' sex and we were disappointed, we can't exactly send it back .
Satisfying your own curiosity is one thing, but can anyone help me understand the logic of finding out because you have a preference. Does finding out and having time to get used to it make the whole thing less of a disappointment if you have a strong preference?
Not judging, just genuinely curious!
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Please someone explain the logic to me...
funtimewincies · 14/07/2009 20:38
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