Submitted by a 26-year-old mother of four.

I knew I was ovulating the night of Dec. 16. Later  on that  night I said to my husband firmly, “It better be a girl.” He assured me that I would not become pregnant and I was being overly paranoid. I took it to mean that he didn’t want another baby (I didn’t either, but we weren’t trying not to) and he was projecting his paranoia onto me. Having already accepted the fact that I would indeed be pregnant, it took presenting … More