aaaargh! Stupid baby gender bollocks comments

[hohumplumbum]

I want to lamp my MIL and SILs around their heads on their constant: 'we'd love a girl, hope it's a girl, we have too many boys in this family, oooh I want a girl' endless.fucking.chatter.

(This is my first baby and I don't give a shiny shit what gender the baby is)

They have said this every time I have seen them in the last three bastard months. I am not finding out the sex before birth.

AIBU to want to lamp them/scream in their faces to STFU/run away/all of the above?

It makes me cross too! I'm very lucky. I have 2 of each so I've pleased everybody

Ah now wait for the comments if you have more than 1 of the same sex.

1st baby was a girl- everyone really happy

2nd baby- a girl. Me, partner and eldest daughter happy. My mum was delighted (she had equal grandsons/granddaughters). Most of other family fine.

But here are some comments:

Oh what a shame, another girl- NO NOT A SHAME. WE ALMOST LOST HER. SHE IS HEALTHY NOW AND A TRUE BLESSING.

Are you going to have another to give OH a boy?- UM HE HAS A BOY WHO IS NEARLY 22. PLUS EVEN IF HE HADN'T HOW WOULD I MAKE SURE IT WAS A BOY???!

Oh more pink for you then- NO THERE ARE LOADS OF COLORS GIRLS CAN WEAR, NOT JUST PINK. PLUS IT HAS BEEN CHEAPER!

I can think of loads of other comments that I have had.

And no we are not planning any more children but if we did I could not give 2 hoots what sex it was.

Good luck with your pregnancy whatever the sex of your child!

when we found out we were expecting identical twins, after much explaining that it means we'd either have 2 boys or 2 girls, we got a whole host of "oh what a shame" and wouldn't it be lovely to have one of each instead of 2 the same".
no, what would have been lovely would have been for us not to lose one of our beautiful DS's at 34 weeks, and end up having an emergency cs so we didnt lose his brother too.
it really boils my piss that people say such twatty things, like all that matters is whether its a boy/girl. and no, we wont care if our next baby is a boy/girl, just that it makes it

My mum called her bump, aka DSis4, 'Hercules' for the entirety of her pregnancy.

Shut people up

We also got - still get - 'Aww, 4 girls, your poor dad' - er, I kind of think he had something to do with it - !!!

Ipswich

It bugged me too. When I was pregnant with 3rd DC, (already had 2 DDs), MIL kept spouting about wanting a boy, and we shouldn't be 'too disappointed if it was another girl' Even after we found out at the 20 week scan that there was severe probably fatal problems, she carried on with this spiel. Either way we were happy and just wanted a live baby, sadly we lost DD3. After that, gender just seemed so trivial.

:( :( Ipswich

I called my bump B.O.R.I.S. (stood for baby of reluctantly undetermined sex). This confused many people into thinking it was a boy. Happily this meant I got at least some usable clothes when my DD was born .

What I really hate is people in shops etc. asking whether it's a boy or a girl. I am still trying to come up with a good reply....my best so far is 'Why? Are you allergic?'

ipswich and jelly - your stories REALLY put it into perspective. Hope you are healing x

It's awful to think that there are people out there who care more about the gender of a baby someone else is having than the fact that that person is pregnant in the first place and the battles some people have before and during.

It annoyed the HELL out of me that after my 20 week scan, only my DMum asked if the baby seemed happy and healthy (which is afterall, the purpose of the scan). Literally everyone else only asked if we had found out the sex and if so what was it.

My mil is like this too, keeps bleating on to me and sil's about how we should finally give her a grandson bla bla. She got all girl grandkids and the last grandgirl she had she did nothing but moan about how she aint a boy then went on to tell me its me that needs to give her grandboy to keep the family name wtf-its like were goin back to henry 8th times lol. Ignore it be happy with the kids you have, im happy to have four girls that are healthy and i love them more than anything and one day i wud even love another addition and would love another girl again. Gender does not matter

My dad was very much like this.. He had me and my sister, always made it clear he wanted a son. When he found out i was pregnant he always said he wanted a little grandson, my nan (from a different country) rang me up and told me "oh wouldn't it be lovely to give your dad a little grandson" (to which i was absolutely fuming as 1 IT'S NOT HIS CHILD, and 2 - i really didn't care if it was a boy or a girl!)
First thing he asked when we came back from the scan was "has it got a willy"
not, is the baby healthy, okay..
I'm having a little girl :-) he hasn't said anything since, i think he's aware we would have a major falling out if he did.