Originally Posted by
Honeychild
Hi all, is it too late to join in here? I'm nearly 16 weeks with number 3, and have two little boys and I've been hoping for a girl each time. This is absolutely our last child, I barely managed to talk Hubby into trying again, but he'd like a daughter too. I didn't join in the groups when I was TTC because I thought it would make me stress more, and then I didn't join in later because I thought it would make me worry about it more, but there's no one I can talk about this with IRL and it's quietly doing my head in!
Does anyone else feel like they need to keep it secret, that they have a gender preference? I feel like people will think I don't love my boys, or won't love this baby as much if it's a boy, when I know that once I meet him it won't make any difference, my boys are my life, and wouldn't swap them for any girl in the world. Many of my friends are also dealing with infertility, so trying to talk about this with them would just seem plain ungrateful and insensitive.
I'm pretty sure this is a boy too. I didn't know about nub theory when I had my NT scan, so I only have two pics to go on, but the little forked bit looks very boyish indeed. I was trying to hold out til my morphology scan at 19 weeks, but I gave in and booked a gender scan for this coming Monday, so at least I'll know one way or the other! Logically I know it will be fine in the long run, but somehow I'm still quietly terrified all the same, and dreading all those comments people make.
Divakotka, I'm thinking of you, I remember how hard it was to adjust when I found about about each of my boys, and hoping they'd somehow got it wrong.
Northern Shutterbug, fingers crossed for you!
Wanting a Girl and Thorz, how exciting, that sounds very promising!