Absolutely gutted

[Northern_Shutterbug]

We've just told me parents over the phone that we're expecting again - I didn't want to do it face to face as I knew my mum's reaction would be down. Suprisingly she thinks I'm mad but offered her congratulations.

Anyway, my mum seems to have this 'gift' of being able to tell the sex of a baby by just looking at the mother - she's been 100% correct, even with two sets of twins (one before the mother even knew it was twins) and triplets, who she said would be ALL boys.

I have never let her tell me with the boys, but I said on the phone that I wanted her to tell me this time when they see me next month, but she said she already knows its a boy

When we had DS1 she said we'd go on to have another boy and then a girl, so I've always had this hope that I would get my boy, now its been shattered.

Obviously I want a healthy happy baby before my desired gender, but I really held out some hope it would be a girl, now I've no hope at all.

[nuthinbutpink]

Honey, she has a coin-toss chance guess each time! Don't let that ruin your day!

[Northern_Shutterbug]

But to be 100% right over the past 20 years with probably close to 100 people, gives me the feeling that she'll be right again.

[BeadinMom]

Well if she's 100% right, you should be thrilled...
Didn't she say initially that you'd have 2 boys then a girl??
Either she was wrong then or shes wrong now...either way, I wouldn't put stock in it.
Please enjoy your pregnancy...you have just as much a chance at a girl as anyone else!! <3

[Bigwish]

Please, hang on to the fact that she didn't see you, as you were telling that she knows gender based on how the mother looks, right? Or does SEE means that she is kind of a psychic? is it sort of extrasensory perception of her? (sorry, English is not my first language, don't know if what i'm saying makes sense at all ;-))

[Northern_Shutterbug]

She normally has to see them but the triplets she did over the phone

[Bigwish]

Hmm, i can imagine your worries if she knows someone gets tripplets by phone... Hope she's wrong with it this time, fingers X, after all it was just one time by phone... Take care!

[Girlsway]

I think you will prove her wrong for the first time. How many children did she have? Maybe she wanted you to stick to the lower number and once she heard you are expecting she felt slightly negative and that's why her guess. Were you thinking of having an early scan around 6 wks to determine gender by Ramzis method, that could put your mind at ease.

My MIL has 7 grand children and last night she announced she doesn't want to have more. Guess how that made me feel. X

[Cinss]

She covered her tracks by saying 2 boys then a girl, now its 3 boys, she has to be right one way or the other!

[Northern_Shutterbug]

We're going to have a scan at 8 weeks but I don't think I'll take anything from the Ramzi's method as I've heard it doesn't really have much proven ability.