Gender Disappointment

So after dealing with this myself, I have seen a lot of posts on here criticizing women for their gender disappointment. Ladies! Please be kind to each other!!

We just found out that my last baby is another little boy. I am over the moon excited that the genetics came back clean and that I am almost 15 weeks with a healthy, strong and sweet boy after a painful miscarriage and an EXTREMELY high risk, anxious and emotional pregnancy. However, I have always wanted my own daughter from the time I was about 5 years old. Those are a lot of years that I have pictured doing her hair, prom shopping, her daddy/daughter dances, baking and making candy together, her dresses, her boyfriends, and giving her my wedding dress (to do with as she pleased), and a host of other "little girl things". This is a dream that so real that I have LITERAL dreams that are extremely vivid. It is painful to say goodbye to the daughter of my dreams and so when I found out, I cried - a lot. If there is another person going through this, I just want you to know that I understand 110%, and it doesn't make us bad mommies. It doesn't make us ungrateful. It doesn't mean that we love the babies God has chosen for us any less. My son has been praying for a sister and he was also disappointed. I will leave you with what I told him - If you prayed so hard for a sister and God said no, then He must be sending us an extra special brother.

Whatever you believe in - God, Universe, Mother Nature...just know that although you are disappointed and may have to let some dreams go, what we have been given will be extra special.

Thanks for reading. <3