Is it normal to not worry about the sex of our baby.
Me and my wife are about to have our first child. Is it normal to not care what the sex. We only care about the baby's health.
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Me and my wife are about to have our first child. Is it normal to not care what the sex. We only care about the baby's health.
Having a baby is unlike anything you will have done before unless you have already had one. The best part about not knowing the gender is that it lets you focus on the health of mother and child. The only people who want to know the gender in advance are the fashion-obsessed who want to push modern baby colour prejudices. Contrary to popular myths, it is only recent post-war western history that we think blue is for boys and pink for girls.
Of course everyone wants a healthy baby! Many people are pretty obsessed over the sex of the baby too, though. I mean, before they find out if it's a boy or girl, they usually have some preference in mind.
It's rare to meet anyone these days who doesn't want to know the sex of the baby before it's born. In fact I think that only happens on TV shows anymore!
I used to read Little House on the Prarie books when I was a kid. Laura Ingalls Wilder had a daughter first, that's what she wanted, and her second child was a boy, she actually describes her displeasure with having a boy....and the boy died in infancy which she found convenient.
Then there's old Henry the 8th....
Those are extremes though, but I do believe most people do have a preference although don't put that above the importance of health.
I do not think that waiting to find out the baby's gender is normal because it is not typical of most people anymore. However, I think that it is great if you wish to not know until the baby is born. My parents waited and they were very happy with the gender of all three of their kids (girl, boy, boy). Also I think that, depending on how my future wife feels on the matter, I would not mind waiting either.