It can affect more mums than we realise...
Gender disappointment can affect more mums than we realise. Here, we look into how it feels, why we haven’t been talking about it, and how to help overcome gender disappointment.
Sophie is one such mum. With two sons at home already, she’s spoken to Mother & Baby about the feelings of gender disappointment she experienced on discovering she is having a third boy. The reasons to prefer one sex over another can be complicated: “There is often deeper personal meaning to the parent, sometimes tied up in previous trauma. For example, wanting to experience, a mother-daughter relationship after losing a pregnancy, baby or even a parent, or perhaps experiencing difficulties in significant relationships and wanting the opportunity to have try to do things differently with their own child.
For Sophie, accepting her feelings has been a vital step as well as looking into the future at who – not what – the baby will become.
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