Disappointment feels so wrong

[Francine]

An emergency came up and I ended up getting another scan at 13.5 weeks where I was told it was a boy. On one hand I was so happy the baby still had a heartbeat and at the moment that's all that mattered. Now that we're past that scare, it's sinking in it's another boy. I can get past it, I've gotten past it a few times before but I can't believe how 'eh' I am over this. I can't even feel it moving yet, the disappointment just feels so wrong. I took the scan (12 weeks) to a few websites and got one boy guess and all the others were girl guesses. Has anyone ever had one of those where you're pretty sure it's one (and many other guesses are matching yours) then to find out it's polar opposite? I'm not even sure what to say...

[ksmom]

With DS2, I had an ultrasound at 16 weeks and everyone who I showed the pics to (including an ultrasound tech) said it looked like a girl. Even I thought the same! I think deep down though I knew that we were having another boy. I ended up having a couple more ultrasounds after that, one of which was because I started bleeding and he was 100% all boy. I got to a point where I stopped having this little "pity party" for myself because we didn't get a girl and was just so grateful that our baby was healthy. He's 1.5 years now and I'm just bananas over him!

[Claire33]

I'm sorry you didn't hear what you wished for. My daughter will also be the only girl among 3 boys. I guess that's just life... I didn't get the family of my dreams gender-wise, but I'm blessed with 4 wonderful children.