my reaction to “it’s a girl”

Over at my WEtv blog, I wrote about my reaction to finding out this new baby-in-progress is a girl. It isn’t your Hallmark-esque scene of a woman leaping off the table in joy:

I’d guarded myself carefully against thinking too much about the baby’s gender at all, even as people around me swore they were picking up on “girl vibes”, as if I were walking around bathed in a halo of pink light.

I guarded myself so carefully, in fact, that when I found myself looking at some decidedly un-male genitals on the screen, my first thought was “Hey, that’s a funny-looking penis.”

“Oh!” the technician said, her voice carefully guarded.

“Yes?”

“It looks like you’re having a girl.”

“Wait, what?”

Read the rest!

Jennifer Margulis December 3, 2008 0:27 am

Awesome blog entry Meagan. I just left a comment over at WEtv. But they don’t make it easy…

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Author and mother of four sons writing about motherhood & family life, mind-body health, Midwest lifestyle, travel and more.

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