And the winner is....

[theatokos]

After a night of horrible anxiety dreams (deformed babies, grief, etc) we went to The Ultrasound this morning. Took over an hour. The little baby is nestled deep into my pelvic bowl. The part where I'm large? Inconsequential. The technician had to cram that wand into my right hip bone and pubic bone to get at the babe. But all parts are a-okay! Healthy, squirmy, stubborn. That's my kid.

And what kind of parts? BOY parts. Very obviously a boy. I was deeply attached to a girl - felt girl, had strong feelings for a girl name.... so of course I came home and cried my eyes out. I'm disappointed. To my guy friends: it's not you, it's me. I'll get over this. In the end it doesn't matter at all. He'll be cute and wonderful and thank god moms get flooded with hormones that make us think our kids are the greatest things since cheese.

What I'm really nervous about is, my family - both immediate and extended - only come in pairs. Whatever the first was, the second was. Adam is one of two boys. His mother is one of four girls in a row before the boy. I would bet good money on the fact that I am now going to have a boy filled family. I wish I didn't feel resigned in that, but I do. At least my father now has the boy he always wanted.

As for names, Adam's leaning toward Beckett William. He'll have Adam's last name (since the girls would've/will get mine). I have no real opinions. Perhaps this will change.

Comments

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

I am sorry it wasn't what you hoped for, but for whatever it's worth, I LOVE having a boy! At any rate, congratulations on his being healthy and having nothing to worry about on that end.

[erinya.livejournal.com]

Congratulations--glad he's unsquished and healthy! Sorry he's not Penelope. But you never know--I can't think of any scientific/genetic explanation for kids coming in same-gender pairs. But then again, I'm not a genetics expert.

I like your decision to give boys Adam's last name and girls yours. That's my favorite solution for the name dilemma.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

*many hugs*

[snowcalla.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!!!

I know you aren't excited right now about a boy...but you will be. I love my boy and I was soooo relieved that I didn't have a girl.

[said-by-me.livejournal.com]

If you can keep a secret... I was dead set on Alex being a girl. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed when I found out he was a boy. It passed. Now, I love having a boy.

I realized too that I am more tomboy than I like to admit so me having a girl would have been silly anyways. I much prefer the mud to the makeup.

I promise, the disappointment will pass. This is partially hormones. You will be back in love with your baby before you know it. Penis and all.

[qibitum.livejournal.com]

Fwiw, I also always thought I wanted a girl, and Ron & I were both 'feeling' girl before our big ultrasound. And I too had my heart set on a name-- Ann Daniel, after my (at the time) very recently passed grandmother & Ron's long gone brother. But, twas not to be. I managed not to cry my eyes out, but there was definitely a sense of "gulp--now what."

But as soon as he arrived, I realized that actually I really just wanted a Spencer all along, but didn't know it. He is, of course, wonderful.

He definitely already seems pretty "boy" and energetic, which wasn't what I thought i wanted, and it is exhausting. But one friend of mine says that you get the children you need to teach you the lessons you most need to learn, and I can already see how that' so.

[thekitchenvixen.livejournal.com]

I know I don't have to reassure you about how much you'll love your baby, you already know that.
But just remember that little boys can have lots of fun doing "girl-things" with mommy, just like little girls can have lots of fun doing "boy-things". I think its difficult to deal with wanting a girl and getting a boy moreso than the other way around. Probably because its so much more socially acceptable for girl children to wear boy clothes or do male oriented activities, whereas boys don't get that leeway in our society.

Now that I've gone off on a tangent.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chiv.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm thinking abotut this and in the current situation, I should probably blockade my thoughts for the moment, but I've always wanted a girl too; Jennifer or Rachel, Mary suggested Molly and I immediately fell for it.
Anyhoo, Statistics will only take you so far and while there's a pattern in the genders, you're looking at the patterns in the mothers rather than the fathers.
Given that it's the sperm that decide the gender of a child, what do the patterns of the fathers and grandfathers suggest?

All that aside, congratulations on a healthy boy :-D

[ginger-root.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry honeypie. BUT just think, maybe you'll get a gay gardener!!!! That would be so fantastic. Maybe he'll have boy parts, but be very girly. Or maybe he'll just be awesome no matter what. I mean, look at his parents. Helloooooo, this kid is going to be rad. Radradrad. In fact, maybe you should name him Rad.

[miss-malloreee.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the boy! Sorry it's not what you wanted though. My Adam was dieing for a boy, as I think most dads-to-be do.