I have to share my thoughts on recent conversations with someone - you guys get to be it! Of course, at 37 weeks pregnant I'm asked a lot "do you know if it's a boy or girl?" And we don't, because we want to be surprised. And, on a deeper level, we haven't found out the sex because we don't want to create opinions of this child's nature before they're even born.
Today, though, an associate in a professional environment asked me in full seriousness "so, if you don't know the gender, what do you do to prepare?" Umm, to prepare?... Eat well, rest, try to plan how our expanded family will work, encourage our son's excitement about being a big brother.. ?
What my associate actually meant is "what colour do you paint the nursery?"That is the least important thing to us! I couldn't say out right that I thought her preoccupation was silly - I told her the nursery was white - but I did slip in a little comment that expectations about gender weren't our style, that our son had been perfectly happy wearing pink.
What do you think? Am I taking it all too seriously? Or could it be a bad idea to plan the colour of the nursery, the personality of the child and their role in society all before they even poke their head out, or their genitals?!?