Never mind, that was weird!

Mommyem, i like many others have been following your poast and i so hoped that this way your boy but it guess that it was not meant to be this time. Your gilrs are lucky to have such a fab mom and you will no doubt fall in love with that little girl the momnet you see her.

Take care of yourself

First of all, you are SOOO lucky to have such a wonderful husband.  I know you're sad and taking in 4 of one gender has to be hard.  If you are a SAHM and can afford to have more....GO FOR IT!  You don't have to give up your gender dream.  If having a boy means that much to you than the money would be worth it. I don't know how old you are, but if I were you, I'd take a few years before trying again.  They say that women have greater chances of conceiving boys when they are older.  Hope you feel better.  You certainly have a very strong support system here.  I'm jealous of how popular you are.

((((HUGS)))

I promise it gets better

kristins:

..i waited a extra year this time amd got a boy so dont give up hope 

Oo, that's interesting; I wonder if timing - as in how much time between pregnancies - can affect anything? Probably not apart from we get more acidic as we age? [sounds horrible!] but I'm interested in any possible theories..

Big hugs Emily I’m so sorry you are hurting right now. Take some time to grieve the boy you are not having this time. You will get him one day!!

Sorry to be the down-sider of things but I thought that the age gap

I have between my children (5 years) would surely mean that I would get the opposite

gender - I mean so much happened in those years and I endured very much jobstress

etc and my nutritional status would have given me a girl instead of a son, but

as you all know a son again with the 5 years age gap - so sorry, I dont think that

the spacing of them has any impact at all...just the luck of the draw

Krissymum

belladini:

I don't know how old you are, but if I were you, I'd take a few years before trying again.

Well, I'm 25...will be 26 next month.  So I'm still a super young spring chicken.  But it's hard not to want to think about trying again soon.  But the thought of 4 girls is so overwhelming, especially since a lot of the time I feel like I have my hands full with just the 3.  I don't know anything about having better chances with waiting longer.  I thought the older you get the greater chance you have at girls, but considering I conceived my first girl at 19 I don't think my chances could get any better.  LOL!  And I don't know if a big age gap would help either, I haven't seen any evidence either way.  I have no idea if we could afford or even if DH would go for high tech, if even MicroSort.  I haven't talked to him about it yet.  And when I told him about At Home High Tech and all Redcin did to conceive her boy, he thought it sounded crazy.  But the look of dissapointment on his face with this 4th girl, maybe he'll change his mind?  Right now though my goal is to lose all of the weight from all of my pregnancies, plus maybe some more, before trying again .  And I want the timing to be right, as far as how old our girls will be and their school schedules.

Honestly I'm feeling pretty good today!  I even got over the shock enough to send out my ultrasound announcement to the rest of my family.  But I also haven't left the house since we found out.  That's the real test, whether I can see little boys and hear people's comments without feeling sad.         

You do have lots of time to TTC again!  I know what you mean about wanting to try again soon....when I found out ds3 was a boy I started planning when we would TTC down to month... well I didnt get pg the first month but I did the second month!   When I was PG w/ ds4 I knew he was a boy from the start but at the u/s when it was confirmed I said I cant do this again.  I sold a bunch of my maternity clothes and it just didnt feel right so I talked to my dh and decided to try again but it took forever for my cycle to come back and now I will find out if this is a boy or girl next week.  I told dh I will only breastfeed for 6 months to try 1 last time if this is a boy,  so I'm already planning my next attempt!

BTW my first 3 are all 5 years apart I dont believe in the timing thing.

 

I glad you are feeling better today!

merlinmoose:

kristins:

..i waited a extra year this time amd got a boy so dont give up hope 

Oo, that's interesting; I wonder if timing - as in how much time between pregnancies - can affect anything? Probably not apart from we get more acidic as we age? [sounds horrible!] but I'm interested in any possible theories..

The age gap between ds#3 and #4 is 8 1/2 years - still got the same gender... 

WOW Emily you are SOOOOOOOOOOO young. I just turned 35 myself...so you have 10 years to where I am sitting. You have plenty of time to do what you need to do before ttc your boy...lose whatever weight you want, save enough money for high tech, convince dh about AHHT, you name it...time is on your side!! :) BTW congrats on your healthy baby girl! I know she will fit in perfectly with her cute sisters!!! And you'll get your boy/boys...you have time and you are motivated. Congrats again and I'm SO happy to see you are doing so well! :)

Rev

I have to jump in on the age thing too only because ds#1 is 11yrs older than ds#2 and actually ds#1 is 15yrs older than ds#5!! Yeah so I don't believe that one either hehehe. Oh and my last son was born when I was 37. Even my old eggs like boy sperm :) my super old eggs liked girl sperm though, go figure