Re: Preparing For Another Person
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:41 pm
Congratulations!
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Kirby April 16, 2011 wrote:Well, it looks like there is a decent chance that mrs_kirby and I will be having a child in another 8 or 9 months.
That is correct.Dusk Eagle wrote:Just to be clear, the baby hasn't been born yet, correct?
Kirby April 16, 2011 wrote:Well, it looks like there is a decent chance that mrs_kirby and I will be having a child in another 8 or 9 months.
Hang in there...mohsart wrote:A friend just had her baby girl, after 25 weeks!
I sometimes wish for that kind of delivery time, nothing I do seems to be right these days, and no food I cook is worth eating...
Uh, OK yo'd rather eat this canned tuna than the lasagna I spent 5 hrs making, mhm that's cool
/Mats
I think, when waiting for the baby, any information is just downright exciting, as opposed to one being a preference over the otherHelel wrote:Hmm... Some kind of hermaphrodite maybe?mohsart wrote:Ultrasound today:
Seems it's a girl, though not 100% certainty.![]()
But why this preoccupation with the gender of children in this day and age? Should it matter as long as the child is healthy? Why do parents in a modern society want to know the gender in advance? Is it maybe to better prepare the brainwashing of the child into a stereotypic individual better able to fit smoothly in the patriarchal structures of current society?
In our case, we wanted to know the gender in order to purchase clothing in advance. If I'm going to buy things for my son before his birth, I want to avoid buying too many skirts, for example.Helel wrote:...Why do parents in a modern society want to know the gender in advance? ...
And you have the advantage that boy predictions are a fair bit more accurate than girl onesKirby wrote:In our case, we wanted to know the gender in order to purchase clothing in advance. If I'm going to buy things for my son before his birth, I want to avoid buying too many skirts, for example.Helel wrote:...Why do parents in a modern society want to know the gender in advance? ...