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time to vote
By heather | March 5, 2008
So you all have been ignoring my poll over in the sidebar…that’s ok…I usually ignore polls too. But!
Tomorrow is the big reveal - the doctor’s appointment to find out if I’m having a boy or girl. (Notice I could have just said the sex but this blog has been popping up in some weird google searches lately and I didn’t want to encourage the freaks.)
And of course I’m going to find out…what a ridiculous question! Anyone who knows me AT ALL knows that I need to KNOW so I can PLAN and make LISTS and BUY STUFF. Unless it’s a boy, then I really don’t need anything but thanks for asking.
I don’t understand the mentality of people who don’t want to know. Why have yellow when you could get pink or blue? Why wait until Christmas when you could have it on Christmas eve (or Halloween)?
My sister in law didn’t find out before the birthday and she probably wasn’t any worse off. She “wanted to be surprised.”
To that I say “Bah!” I’ll still be surprised - just 4 months earlier!!
Sure you don’t get the drama of the doctor exclaiming “It’s a …!” But honestly, doesn’t the delivery room have enough drama?
Yes, I have considered that they can’t always tell, sometimes the doctor just can’t be sure.
To that I also say “Bah!” If the initial peek in utero doesn’t seem to be revealing what’s what, I will simply excuse myself and go do some handstands in the bathroom. Trikonasana, bakasana flip kid, flip! All that yoga will come in handy, damnit.
So it’s your last chance to get in on the wager. Tomorrow I’ll post in pink or blue. To help you in your voting (Clinton? Obama?) I’ll give you some talking points that may or may not help you.
- I kind of have a feeling it’s a girl.
- The Chinese Conception Calendar says it’s a girl, TYVM and also says that if you are me and conceive any time at the age of 32 you are having “girl”.
- My symptoms are mostly the same as the first time except worse, with the exception of a ridiculously bat-like sense of smell, bitchin’ carpal tunnel syndrome, and a more weight around the old shake shake. (Hips and ass! Come on people!)
- No fitness instructor at the gym where I teach has given birth to a girl in three years of tracking (we are talking more than 10 babies here). We theorize that all the testosterone somehow puts a hampering on the X and X linking up, thus overriding things like the Chinese Conception Calendar and genetic probability.
- 68% of old wives tales point to girl. (And just for the hell and humor of it, really, go look at the questions in this quiz. Dramatic chest development=girl. Fast growing hair on legs=boy.)
So there you go. Which is it?
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March 5th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Ok, who’s going to be the rebel and vote for boy? I can’t wait to find out!!!!
Totally agree about not waiting until delivery to find out. It about killed me having to wait with Reagan. If they can’t tell this time just schedule another one!
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March 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I voted for girl because I hope its a girl! I hope she gives you guys a good show tomorrow!
March 5th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I am thinking boy, but hoping for a girl….and YOU BETTER CALL ME tomorrow when you find out. I better be next on the list after the parents like last time. I can’t believe how fast this is going by.
March 5th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I’m going to say girl. I’ve heard that your chances for a girl are better the more days before ovulation she was conceived (this was the case with the V-meister.)
can’t wait to hear!
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March 5th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Oh, how exciting! I’m also of the wanting to “be surprised” at the earliest possible moment camp. If someone is going to know the information, I want to be in on the secret. And I figure that there are plenty of surprises to come in parenting anyhow.
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March 6th, 2008 at 12:51 am
i’m all over the girliness.
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March 6th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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