By ANONYMOUS
Prince Charles knows exactly what he wants when it comes to his new grandchild.
After using the very royal word, ‘splendid’ to greet the news of the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy, he didn’t hold back on his hopes for the gender.
“I really hope it’s a girl,” he told The Telegraph. Right before laughing off suggestions he was being ‘a bit biased.’
Strange isn’t it for someone to be so overt about the sex of a new baby. Maybe it’s the grandparent’s prerogative. Although at a St Patrick’s Day parade, when pregnant with Prince George, the Duchess of Cambridge was overheard saying that while she wanted a boy, Prince William wanted a girl.
Either way, it feels a bit scandalous to actually put words to a feeling/wish SO many people have . Most of us feel like it’s something we have to keep quiet, for fear of causing offence or heading for disappointment.
Take this pregnant anonymous poster who recently contacted us because her wish for a baby girl was making her feel really, really guilty. But unlike Prince Charles, she hadn’t wanted to admit it to anyone. Well, not anyone she knew.
Instead she made a list of the reasons she wanted a baby girl instead of a boy.
Here’s what she said:
The fact is: I don’t want a boy. I’ve had this feeling before. When I was pregnant with my son, now four, I’d tell everyone that I believed I was having a boy to avoid disappointment. For me. And maybe everyone else?
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i desperately wanted a girl, my husband only wants girl. we tried for 2 1/2 yrs to fall pregnant... the day of the ultrasound came. "XX, a girl!" we high-fived eachother! i've never felt so lucky as i did that day, winning lotto would have had nothing on it. i'm 34 wks pregnant right now, and when i daydream about her future wedding day, helping her into her dress, and her dancing with her dad, i just get all choked up with emotion. or maybe its the hormones! my mum died when i was 22, and we were just the best friends ever. i look forward to all those little mother daughter intimacies with my soon-to-be daughter. like letting her have the foam off my cappucino, and her telling me about her first crush, or the first time injustice makes her mad enough to want to stand up and fight for the less fortunate. i have even saved all my Dolly magazines from 1997-1999 for her, and hope she will get a kick out of the daggy fashion that was all the rage in my day :)
I only have girls (5 of them) and I am secretly happy! I am delighted that they will have each other throughout their lives to share happy moments and difficult ones. I don't think it is wrong to hope for one gender more than the other, it's probably natural. What you end up having you end up loving no matter what, but there is no need to criticize those who admit to wanting a girl or a boy.