CW: Pregnancy scans and discussions of assigned sex & gender

The prompt for Day 3 of February’s Love Yourself is ‘Pink’. I personally love pink. When I was pregnant with my son so many people said they could see me with lots of girls because I’m such a pink and glitter kind of girl myself. I didn’t know until he was born that I was having a boy, though I was convinced that was the case through most of my pregnancy. When he was born I had lots of other people think it was a shame I didn’t get a girl, but I was personally delighted to be a boy Mummy.
Yesterday was my 20-week scan with my current pregnancy and this time around Mr F and I decided we would find out the sex of the baby. Unlike my first pregnancy, I was convinced this one was a girl. I was definitely 100%. Baby was determined to give a good flash of what’s between his legs and seconds into the scan I had to hold back the words ‘it’s a boy’ so the sonographer could get to that in her own time once all the definitely more important medical checks were done.
I cannot stress enough that the absolute, most important thing to me is being able to bring my baby home. But having a little boy at home who was eager to know if was getting a brother or sister, and a first time Dad as a partner who was equally curious to know if he was getting a son or daughter, finding out the sex was just an extra way for them to feel closer to the baby.
While I’m not a big subscriber to colours being gendered it’s hard to be an expectant mother and not see the boy/girl, pink/blue divide that exists regardless of whether or not you intend to follow that line of thought yourself. So it did make me chuckle when I saw the Love Yourself prompt because while I am currently very pink, including newly dyed pink hair, my tiny belly human is what some folks would call ‘Team Blue’.
I also know that a lot of this is arbitrary societal norms and I in no way enforce gendered colours or interests in my house. I didn’t with Small Human and I don’t intend to with Tiny Belly Human either, regardless of their assigned sex at birth they will be encouraged to enjoy whatever makes them smile and love whoever makes them happy.

wonderful pic , love your pink hair too
best wishes for a lovely pregnancy
How exciting! Congratulations! I’m a boy mom twice over too
Wonderful photo, I’m glad that things are going well. xx
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