Posted by Emmy on July 12, 2003 at 15:17:42:
I'm having a problem with my boyfriend's mom. She's very excited and happy for me with my pregnancy (I'm just under 7 weeks) but whenever she refers to the baby, she says "he". "It could very well be a girl, you know!" is usually what I end up saying, but she says girls are a pain in the butt...they're born with attitudes that just won't go away, etc. etc. If she had a problem with her own daughter, tough...I'm sure not ALL girls are attitude city, you know! She keeps talking about how she wants a boy this, a boy that, boys are SOOOO much better than girls, blah blah blah. She's not being snide or mean about it, but quite frankly, I'm getting a little sick of it. I'm starting to feel bad now that if I DO have a girl that I'll be letting her down, and I shouldn't be feeling like this. This is MY and her son's baby...NOT HERS. Also, my due date is February 29, 2004, and she keeps saying I'm going to have the baby on March 10 (her birthday). Excuse me...I KNOW when this baby was conceived and I've had my first U/S already and was told exactly what I already knew...Feb. 29 due date. :) I'm getting sick of this too. No real reason, just that I wish she'd leave me alone. Does ANYONE know how I should tell her that I'm getting sick of her saying that it'll be a boy, that the baby will be born on HER birthday, that it's MY child and not hers and I don't care what I'm having as long as s/he is happy and healthy? I want to say all this and get my point across and make it clear that I'm getting tired/upset with her comments, but at the same time, I don't want to sound like a complete @#$!% either!
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