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Originally Posted by Fran27
Truth is, in the end it doesn't make a huge difference, you could end up with a boy who likes dolls or a girl who's into physical stuff.
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So true. Our 5 year old DS has a "tool purse", and a pink wallet - both cast-offs of mine, and he asked for them. DS is very much into me right now, which I'm absolutely LOVING. He tells me I'm the "beautifullest mommy he's ever seen", and tells me he's going to marry me when he grows up. I know this won't last forever, but I'm eating up this stage of his life.
We started the process intending to adopt internationally, and we were going to request a girl. We already had a boy, and I wanted to do the girly things - frilly dresses, dolls, shopping trips, etc. I felt a little uneasy specifying gender (I mean, it's not like picking out a puppy), but having lost part of my body and soul to cancer, I looked at it as a weird sort of reward for that difficult part of my life. Then we switched to domestic, and no longer specified a gender, so I figured that if I were pregnant myself, I wouldn't get to choose, so it was no big deal.
We now have a beautiful 3 month old daughter, so for now, at least until she can express her opinion, I get to do the frilly girl clothes. Who knows how long it'll last.