Boy or Girl??

First of all, credit to this blog post idea goes to my friend, Kate, who is expecting a baby in July, and also has a blog.  While reading her stories recounting who thinks they are having a boy or a girl and why, I realized we have a few good stories ourselves.

Very soon after Matt & I found out we were pregnant Matt's sister & mom were sure we were having boy.  Why?  Family history.  If you consider Matt's father's father's side of the family, everyone has had a boy first.  Matt's grandfather had Uncle Bruce first.  Uncle Bruce had Scott first and Scott had Sam first.  Matt's Dad had Matt first and each of his other siblings had boys first as well - Uncle Alan had Jonathan and Aunt Carol had Eli.  This seemed like a pretty strong argument to me, although at the time I was feeling sooo nauseous and had heard that girls might make you more nauseous so I was thinking more girl.  (Of course Matt liked to tease me that I had no frame of reference and maybe I was not really feeling THAT nauseous comparatively - uhg!)  Once the nauseousness wore off I might have been beginning to be convinced it was a boy...and then at our shower in February my cousin Lois saw me and told me she was sure it was a girl.  I said, "how can you be sure?"  Family history, of course!  I hadn't realized it, but if you look at my mother's mother's mother's side of the family, everyone has had girl first.  My great-grandmother had two girls, my Grandma Onie and my Aunt Helen (and I actually don't remember who is older).  My Grandma Onie had my mother and my mother had me. My Aunt Helen had Lois, who had Kathy first, who had Amanda first, who also had a girl first.   Whew!

Well, there is one thing I know for certain - one of these family trends will be broken!