We didn't worry about gender with the first 3 and were happy to take whatever we got LOL, but with #4, we really wanted to even things up so we gender swayed for a boy and I was so worried that it wouldn't work out and that we'd have another girl, not that it mattered that much, but still, it would have been nice to have another boy kwim? So even though DH didn't want to know what we were having at the scan, I still asked because I was there on my own anyway. When he said he was 80% sure it was a boy, I felt like I was floating on air and I had this feeling of serenity. I even managed to sneakily buy 2 blue outfits later that day and hid them from DH. But I didn't want to set myself up for disappointment, so I tried not to focus on it too much. But when he was born and he was definitely a he, I was beyond ecstatic! DH was overjoyed and even now he's 3, I look at him every day and still can't believe that we got another boy.
One of my most memorable moments as a midwife was the most gorgeous woman I was caring for finidng out what her baby was after birth. She had been ttc for 5years (several losses in that time) and had a 7yr old son. Once bub was born (know one told her what it was) and when she looked she started screaming its a boy its a boy, lots of happy tears. I gentle told her to look again and when she realised bub was actually a girl it was just so amazing to watch. She was crying so much and shaking I don't know how her little slippery bub didn't slip right out of her hands or she fall of the bed for that matter. Words can't do justice the emotion in the room at that moment. There were no dry eyes from any of us thats for sure. Such a shame it wasn't caught on camera.
Nothing like a cuddle from DD after a hard day's work!
Oct 2007
in my own world
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Thanks so much ladies!
My heart is just filled with happiness after hearing the stories.
I often imagine for those mega lucky parents (as parents are lucky to have healthy happy babies already) and who wished for a gender and got it, how much emotions they must have felt!!!
One brings to mind All-Boys (Fejoa's Mum now) how we were all rooting for her after 3 boys to finally have Pepper!! I could instantly feel that excitement so I cannot imagine how she felt!!!! LOLLL
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