A fight broke out in the Choice Mom community when the subject of gender selection came up. When so many people are longing to have a child, being disappointed about having one gender over another seems indulgent to some. But it is common to have a vision about which sex you'll be raising.
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Posted February 2, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Gender selection
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In my case, I definitely wanted a boy the first time -- as someone who tends to have more male friends it just made more sense to me. But my daughter was born and was, of course, beautiful. So much so that when I conceived my second child and learned it would be a boy, I was disappointed. I'd finally get to name him the name I'd picked out for a boy 10 years earlier...but was worried he wouldn't be as easy-going and attentive as his sister, simply because of his gender. But, of course, he's beautiful too (and happens to be easy-going and attentive).
It's an emotional space. The battle on the Choice Mom discussion board was fierce.
Some families really DO want to do everything in their power -- which isn't much -- to have a certain gender. Besides adoption options, there is one technology now being used at some clinics to help "sort" the gender. Here's an article about Microsort by Fertility Authority.
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