re: I'm terrified of gender disapointment.

Quoting veggiehugger:" First off, I'm so grateful for this pregnancy and know I will love my child whether it's a boy or a girl. ... [snip!] ... a boy and that my reaction will be bad.... Is this irrational? I feel like such a terrible person when I think about it.

With my first pregnancy i wouldnt even accept the thought of a boy and went as far as to pick out girl clothes around 14 weeks. I did end up having a girl. With this pregnancy I was even more worried about the thought of having a boy. I had always imagined having two little girls, so a boy was just not an option. About a week before my gender revealing sono something happened and I decided I should pick out some boy names and two days before the sono I was convinced I was having a boy (but still hoping and praying for a girl) the ultrasound was incredibly stressful as i waited for them to tell me the sex. "its definitely a little boy!" all i could say was okay and force a smile. Now i am about 26 weeks and I am completely happy with having a boy, and i think part of it is because of how excited my husband is to have a son. I remember being in tears at the thought of a boy. dont feel bad about it, it happens to all of us and as long as you accept it before the little bundle of joy comes your a great mommy!

my husband and i have 6 daughters and were really hoping for a boy for the last 3 and everytime the u/s tech would say its another girl i would feel that little pange of bummer but i was so happy that they were healthy that it didnt really matter. i am pregnant for a son now and i will admit i was ecstatic to hear its a boy but im sure i would have been just as happy with its another girl ;)

We were hoping to have a boy with our last pregnancy and we ended up with another girl. I wasn't as disappointed as my husband but I was still sad he wasn't going to get the son he wanted so badly. Now that she is here he wouldn't change it for the world. It's normal to have some disappointment but it will go away! Good luck mama!!!

I'll tell you my story when I first found out I was pregnant we all thought I would have a girl because girls run in our family. Everyone has always thought it was impossible to get a boy. I had even went out and bought a high chair with pink on it that's how sure I was that I was going to have a girl. Well when I hit around 21 weeks I went for my second ultrasound, and I wanted a girl and I just pretty much knew that's what I was getting, but I was laying there on the table just looking at my beautful baby on the screen and then the Nurse looks at me and says "Yepp definately a Boy!" and I was like WHAT!? I was so shocked!, and my fiance couldn't stop smiling, but even though I wanted a girl that bad when I found out that I'm having a boy I still couldn't be happier because either way that's my baby and God gave me what he wanted me to have just always remember it doesn't matter what the gender is as long as you get a healthy baby that's really all that matters. And if you don't want to find out the gender just yet don't just wait until it's born and let it be a suprise that would be fun!  

Thank you everybody  
I'm so glad nobody told me that was a horrible thing to think and feel because I'd already been stressing myself out a little for thinking that way. I know I'll be happy with a little boy or a little girl and hopefully when it's time to have my second child I'll be lucky enough to get the opposite gender! I know either way that he/she will be beautiful and I'm getting soo impatient to find out the gender and then have this baby  

Quoting veggiehugger:" Thank you everybody   I'm so glad nobody told me that was a horrible thing to think and feel because ... [snip!] ... I know either way that he/she will be beautiful and I'm getting soo impatient to find out the gender and then have this baby  "

meh, i've had two ultrasounds showing it's a boy but i'm still waiting for it to be born and them say "IT'S A GIRL!"  

Quoting JiLLiAN.:" meh, i've had two ultrasounds showing it's a boy but i'm still waiting for it to be born and them say "IT'S A GIRL!"  "

haha That would be crazy! That baby would be wearing a lot of blue.   Of course there's nothing wrong with that, my mom dressed me in gender neutral clothing when I was a baby and everyone thought I was a boy (I didn't really have hair). haha.