Picking The Sex Of Your Baby - Why Conceive A Son?

We maintain a website, choose-sex-of-baby.com, and in order to keep track of what people are interested in and looking for about this topic, we have been visiting forums and sites to look at the latest posts and comments. This time we were specifically looking for the reasons why anyone wishes to conceive a baby boy. Here is what we found (but don't read too much into the comments as they are probably "off the cuff"):

To begin with the "craziest"":

1. I'm 19 years old and 20 weeks pregnant with a boy. I always hoped it would be a son, a male, even prayed for a boy, a son. I could never manage a girl. There's no way in the world they are easier, especially if she's related to me! Girls are crazy and possibly evil so I'm glad I'm having a boy, most awful thing that happens with a boy is he's a little stupid!!!"

2. "Our girl is now 14 months, and we're due with our second child. We're hoping for a son, just so we can have one of each, love to have a son to keep things even and balanced but hubby is still lacking that father-son relationship."

3. "I always wanted to conceive a boy first, just for that 'Big Brother' appeal. I had 3 older brothers growing up, and it was nice knowing there was always someone to protect me and be watching."

4. "My husband also, I think, wanted to have a male to carry on his name, since he is the only one to carry on his family name. His father died when he was very little, and he has only female cousins from his father's side."

5." I would like to know how to conceive a boy, so I can see how it is to raise both, and it will give me more excitement, to see how they are different"

5." I always wanted 2 kids, a boy and then a girl. Because I am the oldest in my family and didn't have a big brother growing up. I want my daughter to have that."

And this comment, which was rather sad and touching:

6. If I can select the sex of my baby, I really want a baby boy. I have always wanted a girl, but this switched recently, when I thought about all the troubles I have put my parents through, and I wouldn't want my baby girl to turn out like me, and I would be worried to death that she would. If I was told that I was going to have a daughter, I would love her just as much as a baby boy, and wouldn't be disappointed one bit, I would just be a little scared that she would turn out like her mommy.

I have been in a lot of trouble (with men) these past couple years, and I wouldn't want my child to be doing the things I did/do."

7. I'd want a son because I've always been a tom boy

We were quite amazed at the reasons why people would like to choose the sex of their baby, and had sort of guessed that couples may want to conceive a baby boy only to "even out the family" or to "carry on the family name".

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