All of our families seem quite excited - my side, because they have declared it is more fun to shop for a girl (I'm not convinced, but whatever!), and his family because there hasn't been a girl around in a long, long while. Apparently shopping has commenced, and so far everyone is adhering to the request that nothing be sent or brought to the house until August.
How do I feel about this latest discovery about the little one? It's strange - for a long time, I "felt" like it was a boy - not really based on anything concrete at all, just a feeling. Now that we "know" it's a girl (I'm not sure it's 100% accurate), I realize that all of my fears about finding out are completely gone. For a while, I was nervous that maybe I was hoping for one or the other, an I was afraid that when they did tell us the sex of the baby, I might be disappointed, thereby uncovering this deep-seated preference for a boy over a girl, or vice versa. In the end, when she told us "It looks like a girl!" no such excitement or disappointed surfaced. In the end, the news washed over me as just another discovery about this little person, much as the bumps and nudges that come from within remind me of her presence.
The same happened with me (though I knew I had a slight preference for boy, as I love shopping for boys, and know how to raise them, given our family) - when the tech let us know that n was a girl, we were just... happy, content, relieved. She was a bit taken aback, I think, expecting some sort of outburst. She asked if that was okay, if we were disappointed. Not disappointed in the least, just creating more of a mental image of who was waiting to meet us.
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