To want a girl

[daisiesandpoppies]

Due next month.

I haven't had the gender confirmed but am almost positive it's a boy.

He'll be loved and adored, don't worry, but I have to admit given completely free choice I'd have chosen a girl, if I could.

Has anyone else had this? Was it ok when baby was actually born?

I have one DS and when I was pregnant I had a feeling it was a boy and at the scan when it was confirmed I was just delighted they said he looked healthy. I read all the 'mum and daughters are so much closer', you get to buy lots of pink stuff and the comments about horrible MIL's. However, I adore having a boy, he's loving, kind, cuddly and he's boisterous, difficult, grumpy at times.

It's not about boy or girl, it's about how you help them grow and shape them and then they're not just a 'boy' or a 'girl' they're just them. Neither does being a MIL concern me. I want to have the sort of relationship with any potential DIL that I have with my MIL. She's great, but at times she drives me nuts but we're honest with each other and I respect her for the great job she did of raising her son, my DH, into the person he is today. If I can do as good a job with my DS and be like her when the time comes for my DS to get married then I'll be delighted.

I know it's easy to say but really try not to think of boy/girl, it doesn't help. As so many have pointed out when you've given birth and the baby is passed to you you won't care in the slightest!

I had a dd, and several years later had my ds. I can't explain how much I love him. He is literally the apple of my eye, and everywhere he goes, people are drawn to him. There's something kinda sparkly about him I know I know I'm an idiot!
Dd and I are close and getting even closer as she grows up, but ds.... Has all of us wrapped around his little finger

My two DCs are hugely different in personality, because they are different people, not because of their gender. You're having a baby (congratulations btw), who will be a person in their own right, not because of their combination of chromosomes