Baby Gender
Jun 3rd, 2008 by Bethany
My husband has the uncanny ability to tell in advance the gender of our children. He sometimes knows even before I’m pregnant. He’s also figured out the baby’s name well in advance of me. And Colin’s always totally confident about his prediction. Until now, I’ve had no feeling one way or another gender-wise. But this time both Colin and I have a feeling about whether this baby will be a boy or a girl, and we also happen to agree. But I won’t say here what we think, at least not for now.
But, since we already have a boy and a girl and all their attending stuff, I was thinking that it could be fun to have a “surprise” birth this time around where we wouldn’t find out the gender for sure until the baby arrived. I mentioned the idea to Colin, and he looked at me with a confused expression and said something like “What do you mean? We already know.” Hmmph. Way to burst my bubble. It also occurred to me that if I have to have as many ultrasounds this time around as I did last time with the gestational diabetes (once a week), it could be tough to keep everyone from accidentally telling us. But we have weeks and weeks left to make that decision still, so I won’t think about it too hard now.
What do you think? Are we going to have a boy or a girl? And should we make the gender a surprise, or find out when we have an ultrasound (assuming the baby cooperates)?
When you announced that you’re pregnant, didn’t you actually say that it was going to be a boy? In either case, I’m going for boy. And, let me say for all the gambling people out there, that I’ll be willing to start the Jensen Baby Pool if the Jensens’ themselves don’t want to.
All four of my kids were surprises. My husband was a strong supporter of finding out the baby’s gender via ultrasound, but after it took me four years to get pregnant, and there was a strong possibility that it might not happen again (HAH!), I made a deal with him. I promised him that if he would let me be surprised by our son’s gender, he would get to choose surprise or ultrasound with any future children. He loved the surprise so much, he decided that it was the only way to go.
We *knew* with both of our girls, even though we asked the ultrasound technician not to confirm it, and even *knowing* the way we did, it was still a little tense and a whole lot exciting when they were born to see if they really were little girls. With my oldest, I thought he was a girl, and when the doctor said “He’s got boy parts!” I nearly fainted. With my last baby (boy), I truly had no idea one way or the other, and that was a lot of fun. During the c-section, my doctor was polling everyone in the room, and when the moment came, half the room cheered, and the other half groaned, then cheered. It was a lot of fun.
I think everyone should experience a surprise, “Congratulations! It’s a _____” at least once in their lives.
Lars, that is totally hilarious! You can tell the pregnancy hormones are already getting to my memory. Yes, we think it’s a boy. Darn, I was hoping to not mess up the poll with my bias. And you can have the Pool, since we’re not into gambling ourselves.