to think that actually a lot of women secretly think like this about having a boy?

[channing55]

I just read in the papers about this silly woman who had a boob job on the NHS, is now pregnant and said if she had known it was a boy she would have had an abortion and is drinking and smoking throughout her pregnancy because she doesn't care because it's a boy.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673898/Im-drinking-smoking-boy-Pregnant-model-boob-job-NHS-says-shed-abortion-shed-known-wasnt-girl.html

I know most women who are pregnant with a boy wouldn't go to the extreme of having an abortion or smoking and drinking but I have heard so many negative remarks from mums pregnant with a boy about how disappointed they are and even when I was pregnant people made rude comments about (me) having a boy.

I actually think a lot of women are secretly disappointed when they find out they are having a boy and that this woman's horrible attitude is just an extreme example of how much prejudice and nastiness there is now towards little boys and the nasty cliches society now attributes to them?

I have found the opposite actually. My friend desperately wants her first child to be a boy and when my sister in law found out she was expecting a girl (first child) she told me she was devastated which was an appalling thing to say to me as my first child, a girl, was stillborn when I was 42 weeks pregnant. I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who is disappointed in the gender of their baby.

I feel sad when I hear people complaining about the gender of their children.

DP and I have one of each, but quite frankly that's irrelevant to us, we are simply happy to have 2 children. They are so different to each other but that's personality and very little to do with gender.

I don't want any more, but would have stopped at 2 whatever the gender of our children. (I'm not the most maternal of people, in fact many people assumed I'd never have any )

That girl is an utter twat!!!
I was thrilled to be having a boy.. both times
Some people are disappointed sure but lets not compare them to that moron

Good God! I don't think 'many women secretly think' like that at all. I have 2 boys. I stopped smoking in my first pregnancy and didn't start again. I loved them before they were born and I knew they were boys. I would have liked a girl but even if I got pregnant again (unlikely) and it was a third boy, I would be pleased. I adore my boys. This kind of thing annoys me.

As you have a 50/50 chance I don't know why anyone bothers having a baby if they are not trilled by whatever they get!

Never felt like this. Love my boy. He totally rocks.

I have heard so many negative remarks from mums pregnant with a boy about how disappointed they are and even when I was pregnant people made rude comments about (me) having a boy

I've never come across this at all. I love my little boy (lots of fun and cuddles!). I do notice that some Englishwomen are a bit hung up on the mother/daughter relationship, whereas where I come from (Ireland) the mother/son relationship is stereotypically the close one. In fact its a running joke / cliché in Irish culture.

I found that when I was pregnant with a girl I got negative comments about how they bet my DH was disappointed it wasn't a boy. I think there will always be rude people around.

I think most mums are just delighted to give birth to a healthy baby regardless of gender.

I wanted a boy with both of my first and second pregnancies but each time it was a girl. Job done... until 9 years later an unexpected third pregnancy produced the boy!

I was desperate to have a boy! Early I my first pregnancy I was too embarrassed to admit that I had a preference, but I remember the relief and happiness when the sonographer pointed out DS's prominent boy bits at my 20 week scan. I was sure DC2 was another boy, and if I'm totally honest I did feel a bit deflated to find out otherwise. Of course now DD is here I realise how ridiculous I was to have cared either way. DS is a stereotypical Boy; noisy, boisterous, always climbing and running. DD is girly (I don't know how as I'm a tomboy) and quiet and I adore them equally.

No. I was absolutely beyond thrilled to be told I was having a boy. And I love having one.

Rubbish, I actively wanted a boy both
Pregnancies and a lot of women I know wanted boys. We still live in a society that favours boys over girls in my opinion