Just looking for a bit of advice with how to handle comments and questions about the babies gender from my mum.
Ever since I told my mum she has openly said she hopes I have a boy, says when 'he' is born, even sometimes says Baby [name we've previously said we like].
My sibling has 2 boys and she is heavily involved with childcare for them (and will be with mine to enable me to go back to work too) and she's said things like oh but my house is all set up for a boy (I've pointed out that girls can be interested in astrology/dinosaurs too but that's another conversation), and she's also said that 'we only produce little boys in our family'.
It's giving me really bad anxiety because I was absolutely fine with having either a boy or girl when I found out, but now I feel like I am going to be unable to stop myself feeling a little bit disappointed if it's a girl because I feel like she's going to have to sort of work harder to be loved by my mum. I know that sounds so ridiculous.
I'm only 12 weeks so I'm a good few weeks off being able to do a private gender scan, but I'm tempted to do one of these DNA ones just to know, and either put these anxious feelings to bed, or else prepare myself for a disappointed face when I tell her. Although then I rob myself of a lovely moment at a future scan when my partner and I could find out together.
Arrrghhh god why can't people just keep their comments to themselves!!