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March 2015 Moms
bakingmama123
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Choosing Baby's Sex
bakingmama123
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Just read this article on Yahoo. Thought I would share with you guys.
I feel so sorry for her 3 sons. Edited: how on earth did I type gender up there. My bad, it is corrected lol.
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Re: Choosing Baby's Sex
I could not get through the entire article, this woman sounds like such as asshole.
"My only goal in life was to have a daughter."
Homegirl, get a fucking hobby.
This is so beyond disgusting. I don't blame all her friends for judging her. I'm judging her. How impossibly shallow can you even be? Wow.
These parents are obviously going to have unreasonable expectations for their daughter. I know my mom always wanted a super-girly princess daughter but she got stuck with me instead. It really sucks to know you're a disappointment to your parents based on factors that are completely out of your control.
I know my mom loves me but I know she quietly mourns for the daughter she wishes she had who would love shopping, make-up, and high heeled shoes.
For SuzyQ & all the March 15 Loss Moms
This article actually made me feel sick. I mean, I get "preferring" one gender to another, but to consider abortion?? To start saving $$ and planning your girl while you are still pregnant with the son you considered aborting? This article may have not shown the whole picture, but it definitely seemed that she was completely disappointed with her 3 sons for the genitalia God gave them. I hope they don't develop complexes when little sister becomes the fast favorite in their house. How incredibly sad.
And I am not necessarily against "gender selection" or whatever they call it. I would never do it myself and can't really understand those that would, but I can't say I would hate on anyone that chose to do it, unless they had a similar story to this woman in regard to their "unwanted" children.
Ugh, I hate this woman. And I hate her kid's masculine name.
That's probably not something I would ever be able to forgive. Almost having an abortion with me because they were struggling financially and were already having a hard enough time keeping food on the table for my brothers? Yeah, I can understand that. But considering aborting me because of my genitals? Deplorable.
May her daughter grow up with a love of monster trucks, guns, and deer hunting. May she prefer Carhartt jackets to Manolo Blahniks. May she have a hearty appetite for buffalo wings and steaks. May she abhor tea parties with fussy little finger sandwiches and scones. May she shove her mother's frilly lace down her throat when she's old enough to have an opinion about it.
MC: 2/19/14
"The process involves harvesting a woman's eggs, injecting each one individually with sperm, then growing the embryo from a single cell to around 130 cells, at which point it's possible to tell whether the chromosomes are XX or XY. Only embryos of the desired sex are transferred to the uterus."
So did they just throw away all the male embryos? I can't even imagine, that is so horrifically disgusting. That doctor needs his license revoked. Why couldn't they just inject each egg with X carrying sperm?
The level of obsession she has with her kids genitals I do take issue with. This kind of attitude is legitimately dangerous to her living children. The damage that they will suffer when they find out about this could be crippling. I think it's cruel.
If her issue is mental health, then I think the doctor who did the procedure should be side-eyed for not requiring counseling or something ahead of time. What if the procedure hadn't worked? What if she had another boy? Would she have been so depressed over another penis that she would have killed herself? It feels incredibly irresponsible to allow a person like that to undergo such a procedure without appropriate support if they do actually have serious issues with mental illness.
A person in a healthy mental state or with a better attitude would definitely get less judgement from me. Though I do tend to be a judgy bitch.
___ugh quote fail ____
To be consistent with my values, I *personally* couldn't condemn her - or any woman - for the number of times or the reason(s) for which she chose to terminate a pregnancy. I would definitely sit down and have a long conversation with her about medical risks and mental health concerns, if I was her healthcare provider. I just have to respect her autonomy. (Deep inside, yes, it's a struggle not to judge. I'm human. But I try really hard to be consistent with my values.) Still - to me, her saying she considered abortion was more an example of how severe her depression was. (And that was informed by my own experience with prenatal depression.)
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
Yeah I am also very pro-choice, but am also looking at a bigger picture with this trend.
We are at the point where we can examine an entire genetic code of someone if we want to throw enough money at it. What happens if someone finds out their baby's skin is too dark/light? That the kid isn't tall enough for their taste? Not going to have a football player's build? Hell, wrong eye color even?
At what point does it cross from personal choice to straight up depravity? Does the person's access to money give them the right to mow through 40 fetuses to get what they want?
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
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Interestingly enough, I have heard that in parts of Canada it is illegal to reveal sex in early ultrasounds because of this very reason. They have a lot of populations that apparently try to abort after finding out sex, so they made it illegal to disclose sex until after fetus age is beyond legal abortion limits.