Reply #6: We DO have all girls (three of them) [View All]

and I wouldn't trade them in for a boy any day. Having said that, we have nephews that we absolutely adore, and I'm sure we'll enjoy our grandsons.

The truth is, we never, ever cared - even my football playing, hot rod loving, motorcycle riding, he-man of a husband. People AROUND us cared more. After our third daughter was born (a daughter who was NOT conceived as a try to have a boy, but who was conceived because I didn't feel like our family was complete), it was amazing how many people asked us if we had been "trying" for a boy, like there was something defective about having girls. One mother actually said, as I held my beautiful infant daughter in my arms, "Were you very disappointed that she wasn't a boy?" I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Yeah, we're giving her up for adoption and we're gonna try again until we get it right." Then I walked away.

Of course, if given the ability to chose the sex beforehand, we never would have - AND, we didn't want to know the sex of the baby before birth anyway.

I think this technology IS good for people who are carriers of genetic diseases that would affect a girl or a boy. Then, if they know that only boys would have or carry the disease, they could conceive girls and not worry about it, or vice-versa. But choosing for other reasons? I dunno, it seems kinda icky to me.