Shaky Egg

Or, not so’s I can use it at will, anyway. I worked very, very hard on my predictions of girl babies for two of my girlfriends and I was wrong on both counts. (And of course they are ecstatic to have babies, regardless of gender.)

I haven’t seen one pregnant friend, but the other friend definitely had a ‘boy’ tummy, pooching out way up under her ribs. But I wanted her to have a girl so bad, I just went on and called it a girl.

Well, heck. There are two good things about this (besides the simple joy of beautiful babies).

1. If I keep predicting a girl (I also predicted a girl for my brother and his wife and was very wrong) eventually I’ll get it right. Right? I haven’t gotten one right since I predicted my own baby was a girl and predicted my LLL Leader friend’s baby.

2. If my friends keep having boys, statistically speaking, my chances of having a girl are greatly improved, right?

It’s very sad to me to admit that whether one gets a boy or a girl is a completely random process. I can’t accept that. If nothing else, there is scientific evidence that sperm carrying boy vs girl genes swim faster and slower or are weaker and stronger, such that the time of the month supposedly makes a difference. So, in a way, perhaps it’s not random, and perhaps it comes as well from the spiritual and emotional state of the parents– their needs, their desires, their level of closeness to each other at any given time, their spiritual destiny.

My two girlfriends do seem like the quintessential parents of boys, when I step back, but I know, of course, plenty of women who have some of each. So there’s just no saying, is there?