Why do people say well done when you tell them you are expecting?

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I have recently found out that I am expecting a girl at the end of August and I was over the moon as I know that even though I would love loads of dc we can realisitically only afford 2 so with having ds already I secretly longed for a girl as I knew this was my last chance to have one.
Any way I found out I was having a girl and whenever people ask me if I know the sex of the baby I say girl and they say Well Done like I had a major role to play in what sex baby I would have!
I know that I had absolutely nothing to do with it to be fair she wasn't even planned so there was no starnge sexual positions or eating differenbt food like you hear celebs are doing to guarantee a boy or a girl.
Was just wondering really why do you think people say Well Done? It seems so strange when they could just say Congratulations or Thats Nice!!

because they can't think of anything else to say?

because girls are better than boys - IMO being one!!

Sorry, playground tendencies got the better of me there!!

At least well done is vaguely positive, unlike the comments I've had now I'm on no.4 - was it planned (yes, and none of your business anyway), I expect you want a girl (yes we'd like a girl or a boy, my understanding is they only come in one of two flavours and we couldn't care less which we get, despite all our children being boys), however will you cope (no comment to that one) and - my personal favourite - are you going to get things "seen to" after this one?!

Sadly having children is one of those things everyone sees fit to have an opinion on whether asked for or not. I personally would love to tell people to get a life, but I also find deliberately misunderstanding the question to be highly amusing if rather childish ....

Whden I had DD after having had a boy first time loads of people said 'Well done' I have never understood why.

I've just had DD after DS and I agree -- people see the baby, say "Congratulations!", ask what it is and on hearing it's a girl say "Oh, well done".

A "well done" for having the baby I could understand (it does take a certain amount of effort, after all ). But for the sex, it seems very odd.

I never understood what was so special about one of each. We would be very happy with another little girl like DD (we'll find our hopefully in 6 weeks).
But I think I can go one better, as my Mum told me that a friend of mine came up to her and said "Well done" as she'd heard on the grapevine that I'm PG and my Mum will be a Granny again. I'm afraid that I couldn't help myself and blurted out "Well done?!?!??? What have YOU done?!???". Oops. Oh well, blame the pregancy hormones.

The one that really wound me up was when we told the outlaws - MIL turned to DH and said "WHAT a clever boy!".

Cos obviously he did ALL the hard work