Bf seemed uninterested when we had a girl compared to possibly having a boy
Did anyone else’s bf during your pregnancy seem uninterested if you were having a girl but then be all in when you have a boy? My bf and I have a daughter she’s 7 months old so it’s not been very long since I was pregnant with her. I am currently pregnant again unexpectedly but we are finding out the gender this weekend. I personally have no preference I will be absolutely thrilled with either gender but my bf however is really leaning for a boy and is kinda giving me the vibe he will be upset if it’s another girl. Which I understand gender disappointment is a real thing even if I’m not going to experience it he might and that does kinda hurt my feelings. But anyways he HATED baby shopping with our daughter like he never went even one time. We didn’t buy anything for her until a week before she was born because he kept avoided it and putting it off. He gave me some money and told me to just go to the store by myself and get the bare minimum essentials the very week we had her and that was it. So I didn’t really get to experience the whole fun shopping and going all out etc when I was pregnant with her and it bothered me how uninterested he was. He loves her to DEATH now and is such a great dad to her but still I do get in my feelings and wish he would have been more “excited” for her during the pregnancy. We were talking about what our guesses were for the gender of this baby, I think it’s a girl and he thinks it’s a boy. I told him I will be happy either way BUT it would be more convenient to have another girl because we would already have everything and I kinda jokingly said something along the lines of “if it’s a boy I’m gonna be stressed the whole time again because I know how much you hate baby shopping and you will probably put it off until last minute again” and he said no that if it’s a boy he’s going all out this time and will buy any and everything for the baby and pick outfits out himself etc it just kinda made me sad because I wish he had been that way when I was pregnant with our daughter. He kinda “ruined” the experience for me at the time by not being as interested and involved as I was idk. Maybe it’s just my hormones making me feel some kind of way about this but I just feel like it’s odd to let the gender affect how excited/invested you are during the pregnancy and I’m worried if we have another girl he’s going to be even more upset this time and it will be a repeat of how my last pregnancy went and he just won’t be that interested until she’s born.
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