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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
For all you curious people
Since these seem to be questions on everyone’s mind, here’s our answers…
• We don’t ‘want’ a boy or a girl, we just pray for a healthy happy baby.
• Twins would be nice, but we already know there’s just one bub in the belly.
(My oldest brother has twins, 2 boys. But other than them it doesn’t really run in the family)
• Yes, you will have to wait until the baby is born to find out name and sex.
We are not planning to find out if it is a girl or a boy. And even if we did know, we wouldn’t tell anyone. It’d be our little secret. Ha.
Thinking about it, I find it quite peculiar that this seems to be one of the first questions asked once people --complete strangers even-- find out you’re pregnant. Understandable that with the technology of these days Mother Nature is checkable and can even be controlled/manipulated to a high level, but just not everything needs to be known beforehand. So, ask away but you won’t hear…
Of course we are curious as well, but enjoy surprises better!
And is it really that much more practical to know in advance? We don’t have space for a baby room, and I definitely am not the type of person who goes crazy on pink or blue for the bub anyway. As for name choosing: even if the doctor tells the gender you still have to pick two names just in case, because they are not always right.
I can relate to wanting to bond with your unborn baby though, and who knows, maybe for that reason we’ll change our mind in the next months. In the meantime we’re bonding, just not with a specific name or gender or face to our child yet. Only about 150 more sleeps and then we’ll find out!
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