Wednesday, August 16, 2006
find out when mommy and daddy made you
so i get this email with a link to your birthday. it has all the events that were going on at that time, the phase of the moon, your special numbers, star signs, a list of people who share the same birthday, and the clencher- the day you were most likely conceived. pretty cute, eh?
so, people i know all over the world are having babies, or about to drop them. i just found out, just this second, one girl had her baby in the parking lot of the hospital. it is all so exciting isn't it?
we too will be joining the club of parenthood very soon. i can hardly wait. last night i fell asleep with my hand on my wife's belly, while frijole was drumming away. i am so pleased that we did not find out the sex of frijole. it seems to me like such a lame fad. i know others "want to prepare..." but for what? you are having a child! someone put it to me the other day, "we are categorized by our gender for our entire lives, it is nice for a while to not have those classifications placed upon an individual." i am in full agreement here. even the mystery and the speculation is so much fun. we will find out the answer soon enough to the gender question. however, even if we found out at the 18 week mark, what could we do about it anyway? i am going to love my child regardless.
really, the only question in my mind is this- i put frijole's details into the b-day calculator, and the result was that i had sex on january 2, 2006- so is that correct? i can't remember. it could have been around the time of the wild party on new years eve...
so, people i know all over the world are having babies, or about to drop them. i just found out, just this second, one girl had her baby in the parking lot of the hospital. it is all so exciting isn't it?
we too will be joining the club of parenthood very soon. i can hardly wait. last night i fell asleep with my hand on my wife's belly, while frijole was drumming away. i am so pleased that we did not find out the sex of frijole. it seems to me like such a lame fad. i know others "want to prepare..." but for what? you are having a child! someone put it to me the other day, "we are categorized by our gender for our entire lives, it is nice for a while to not have those classifications placed upon an individual." i am in full agreement here. even the mystery and the speculation is so much fun. we will find out the answer soon enough to the gender question. however, even if we found out at the 18 week mark, what could we do about it anyway? i am going to love my child regardless.
really, the only question in my mind is this- i put frijole's details into the b-day calculator, and the result was that i had sex on january 2, 2006- so is that correct? i can't remember. it could have been around the time of the wild party on new years eve...
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i was very inspired by this post. so much so that i am going to strongly encourage everyone i know from now on NOT TO FIND OUT THE GENDER of their baby. love this post!
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i know, ha? i try to encourage people about it all the time, but don't want to come across as too overbearing with my beliefs etc. other people...
I can see your point, but I feel like this is strictly a matter or opion, no right or wrong answer. Everyone has their reasons for finding out the gender or not, as you have yours. "Wanting to prepare" simply means getting gender specific clothing ready and maybe the nursery, narrowing down a name. It's exciting. Maybe that seems lame to you, but you will be doing that same thing after the baby is born anyway, so why not be ready when the time comes? I chose to know the gender of my babies, so I lean towards that opinion, but I sure don't feel like that's the only way to do it. Nobody should be made to feel like they've messed up or missed out because they found out the gender. It doesn't make any difference in the long run anyway. Just my opinion!
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