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Post by swankivy on Sept 17, 2010 21:52:37 GMT -5
Is It a Boy or a Girl?
Affecting everything from names to color choices, the gender of a newborn baby seems awfully important to some people. If you've had a baby, did you attempt to ascertain its sex before its birth? If you haven't had children, would you want to know ahead of time or not? How did/would knowing or not knowing affect your preparations?
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Post by SHO! on Sept 17, 2010 22:02:28 GMT -5
Is It a Boy or a Girl?Affecting everything from names to color choices, the gender of a newborn baby seems awfully important to some people. If you've had a baby, did you attempt to ascertain its sex before its birth? If you haven't had children, would you want to know ahead of time or not? How did/would knowing or not knowing affect your preparations? I have no children, but I am pretty certain I'd make no great effort to be surprised by the baby's gender. If it's there to know then will know it (actually, knowing my usual motivations, I would probably be actively trying to find out).
I'm not sure if knowing or not knowing would change my preparations much. I was hoping that if I ever did find someone to have children with than we'd be cool with a [mostly] basic gender neutral stance on child rearing. I wouldn't put my son in a dress or try to encourage him to play with dolls, but at the same time I wouldn't try to forcefully stop him if he chose those things (though I might try edging him way from dresses and dolls with practicality and logic... and BFGs). As for my daughter, I don't think there'd be any restrictions... except the ready knowledge that I will probably torture boys that come near her.
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Post by blondiviolette on Sept 18, 2010 17:53:36 GMT -5
If I ever had a kid I would think to myself that I'd like to keep the gender a surprise until popping out time or whatever, but, knowing me I'd be too curious not to know and end up finding out! A child is a child, a human, no matter what gender so they all need the same kind of essentials and love, being not a believer in pink for girls/blue for boys the colour choices wouldn't come into play but would have to see what my partner etc thought too of course. Hopefully we'd name the baby something meaningful, after a person the partner really respected and liked or someone I respected and liked or that both of us did, but nothing ridiculous that the kid is going to grow up and hate, I'd be peeved if my partner was insistent on a stupid name. Not being a parent I don't know the ins and out of what's all required for preparing for a baby so that's about all I can say for now
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Post by SHO! on Sept 24, 2010 19:14:35 GMT -5
...I don't know the ins and out of what's all required for preparing for a baby... *giggle* ;D
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Post by otakursed on Oct 2, 2010 16:28:44 GMT -5
As delightfully provincial and quaint as leaving the child's gender a surprise may be (and aren't I just meeting my douche quota for the week in that statement?), I think that the practical and economic choice would be to find out as soon as possible. And just as a curiosity, would the creator drop a hint as to whether Meri Lin's predictions are sheer coincidence, or if there's something drifting there that might give Adele a pleasant surprise.
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