To be so bloody happy to have another BOY on the way

[blueberry23]

Lighthearted thread

But I see so many threads with gender disappointment towards having a boy

My reasons for being over the moon for DS#2 in my tummy....,,

I will remain queen of my house (bar the dogs!)
Boys adore their mummies
Less emotions to manage
Less pink and glitter hopefully 🤣
Brothers
Dirty knees and climbing trees and rough and tumble

I'm just here for it all

What are your reasons if you love being a boy mum like me?

Surely more female babies are unwanted on a world wide scale. China apparently now has far too many males, from the one child policy.

Oops I quoted the wrong thing last time and meant to quote this post rather than the OP! So I write again but in response to this...

How often do we read threads on here from mums who feel awful because they've found out they are having a second boy rather than a daughter?
How often do people complain about others saying "ooo would you like to yegf one of each? Never mind you can try fir a girl next time" etc?
I think the OP is just flipping this so she can shout about how bloody ace boys are.

It's really not news that there is an epidemic of depressed, passive, useless men!
And the cure for passivity is being given responsibility.

I'm not saying they become sissies at school 😮I'm saying that young boys need LOADS of rough and tumble play, every day, in early childhood, for their brain to develop properly. And if they are deprived of this (which our school system does), it has psychological repercussions in later life.

Just to say, I have two girls who are very laid back, they both adore me, as I do them and we have plenty of dirty knees and rough and tumble!
Can't speak for pink and glitter because we LOADS of that 🤣

I'm glad you're happy, but I don't think it's kind to make out girls aren't all of the things you listed because they certainly are

Girls more agreeable? 😅

I've got 4 boys! A new one on the way don't have a preferences but daddy and older 2 ds really hope to be a girl. I think it would be weird to have one though 🤔 last two the midwifes used to say "maybe next will be a girl" and I was like "but I don't want so bad a girl" always left them puzzled. It's probably easier with girls (as i see in my nieces compared to their brothers) but it's rewarding. When i am upset there's one who always ask " why is our princess not happy?" And he's only 6😅 or ds4 "when I will work I will buy you lots of flowers I know you love them" 😏 Although they do cry over anything they are so sensitive and loving ❤️

I have both and never knew this was a thing! From now on I shall refer to myself as a gender fluid mum.

Yes. This is such a basic psychological fact, I'm surprised at how many people seem to not know this!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/

Shock horror - there are innate psychological differences between the sexes which are not all socially conditioned.

Awww OP I'm so pleased to see your thread about your excitement over having another boy!
I'm a mum of two boys two and I absolutely adore every ounce of them!
A lot of what I see online is that baby girls seem to be a lot more celebrated then boys and as a boy mummy I find that very annoying!
I was over joyed when I had my second boy but I did feel some weird energy from others which has followed by comments like "you'll get your girl one day", "the next will be a girl", "at least you can do make up and hair with your neice". Ermmm I'm perfectly fine thanks 😅
People can twist and turn your words as much as they like but I think it's great to see such joy over another little baby, boy or girl!

I love seeing the similarities and differences in them. I love passing the clothes down and seeing my eldest be proud that his brother has his old things. I love how my youngest looks up to him. Love the cuddles and snuggles.
Of course these things happen with both boys and girls, but just another round boy mummy over here!

Enjoy OP!

OMG!!!!

Umm what you are arguing is massively controversial and scientifically contested. It’s certainly not established “fact”. It’s impossible to isolate which, and to what extent, personality differences are innate/ versus socialised.

Exactly. Come spend a day with mine. Please. Or even a weekend.

I’m very excited as DD2 is due this weekend. I hope she adores me!

I think worrying over the sex of a baby is odd. They will be their own person. I can guarantee my brother feels more emotions than me! My sister climbed trees, me and brother never did. All of us are pretty fond of our mother.

Congrats on your pregnancy x

Ah congratulations any baby is a complete blessing! And lovely news! Wish I could have more but in all honesty my daughter is like three kids in one lol xx

‘Boys love their mums’

this is so bloody weird. Children love their mums regardless of their sex

Less emotions to manage has not been the case here 😂

Sigh No one is saying every single girl is more agreeable than every single boy. That's not how scientific conclusions are formed.

There are studies on the effects of pressure to be manly, some of them are pretty interesting.

I was reading this one about 'the Man Box'
https://www.equimundo.org/resources/man-box-study-young-man-us-uk-mexico/

"The study presents six key outcomes or consequences, as identified by The Man Box, which show strong statistical links to harmful masculine stereotypes and have measurable societal and economic costs. These include: traffic accidents, suicide, depression, sexual violence, bullying and violence, and binge drinking."

congratulations on a healthy baby OP, hope your pregnancy continues without issue 💗

Sexist bollocks isn't lighthearted.

I thought you were going to give a sensible reason like, they can wee standing up so potty training is easier.

I have one of each. My daughter is more attached to me than my son, I'm her favourite person in the world. My son is attached to me, but he's equally attached to my husband. So at the moment my daughter "adores" me more than my son(although that might change in the future)

My daughter wears a lot of her older brother's clothes at the moment, so there is not much pink and glitter.

My son is just as emotional as my daughter.

My daughter enjoys climbing already and I can see she will be very adventurous when she's older.

I find your post weird and full of gender stereotypes.

I have a boy and agree with some of what you say, I gave a wonderful relationship with my son. BUT you absolutely have the wrong impression of what having a girl is like, I have one of those too, she is fantastic and I adore the very essence of her, of both of them.

Have you actually read this?

it’s written in 2011 and cites Bill Cosby.

Bill fucking Cosby as an authority on gender differences.

fucking hell

I said "not all of them are socially conditioned". It's generally accepted in the scientific community that both evolutionary and social forces have contributed to these differences between the sexes.

Exactly this. This stood out as the weirdest sentence to me in the whole post.