I need to keep reminding myself that I don't want to rush my pregnancy along. While I want to savor all of the aspects of my pregnancy and to enjoy this phase of my life, I'm also notoriously impatient. I mean, I tried to be born 4 months early for cripes sake.
Anyhoo, I just found out today that we won't be able to find out the gender on our little bean until April. APRIL! That's so far! I knew we weren't going to be able to know until 20 weeks, but apparently I did my math wrong. I know that means we're halfway so I really shouldn't rush it. I'm already deciding on a gender neutral nursery because I like it, not for any other reason, so it's not like finding out will do anything more than fulfill my need to know. But still. I kind of need to know!
I just need to slow myself down, focus on the things I can know and handle now and stop looking into ways to figure it out early. Patience Goldfried, patience.
oh man, i totally remember how long the wait seemed to find out the gender... and in the meantime, everyone, i mean EVERYONE, told me that because of how i was carrying and the lack of symptoms i had, combined with how active the baby was, i was DEFINITELY having a boy. so in order to reference the baby in conversation, we chose a name. a boy name. bad move. i began to associate everything baby with "boy." then we found out it was a girl. i cried. hard. for days. i actually had to mourn the loss of the boy before accepting i was having a girl. sounds silly, but hormones take over. i'm telling you, it was rough. so if you need to pick a name in order to talk about the baby, pick a gender neutral one! :)
ReplyDeleteOh God I can see that being so hard! I know a couple of other women who had a difficult time coming to terms with the gender at first. Luckily, we've been calling the baby Doctor Goldfried or MoGo, short for Moses Goldfried. Evan likes to joke that he wants to name the baby Moses regardless of gender...
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