A pregnant couple told Newsweek they were twice told they would be having a girl, so they purchased pink clothing and prepared a pink bedroom, and were left understandably shocked when their baby finally arrived.
Americans have historically had a preference for having a boy over a girl. The most recent Gallup Poll on the subject found 36 percent of respondents would rather have a boy compared with 28 percent who would rather have a girl. In the UK, older cultural norms placed importance on having a son to carry on the family name, but studies show a narrowing gap in gender preference.
The remaining 36 of the respondents either said it did not matter or simply had no opinion on the subject. Naomi McGann and her partner, who are from the UK, didn’t necessarily mind either way, but from the moment she discovered she was pregnant, they were convinced they knew the gender. Studies show that “intuition of fetal gender is professed by almost half of mothers though, when present, is no better at accurately predicting fetal gender than flipping a coin.”
“We thought it was a boy,” McGann told Newsweek. “My husband and I had picked his name already, then we were told at a private scan at five months that he was a girl.”
A hospital scan a few months later confirmed that their instincts had seemingly been incorrect: they were having a girl. So the excited couple began making all the usual plans of expectant parents.
“We picked a girl’s name instead and did a baby shower for friends and family,” McGann said. The pink theme of that day was matched by their preparations at home, which included an eye-catching gender reveal.
“We bought clothes up to toddler age in pink and dress-up clothing,” McGann said. “We prepared a joint bedroom to share with pink walls, and personalised items with the name we had chosen if we did have a girl.”
As the big day arrived, the couple received yet more confirmation that they were having a girl. “We had a scan at 8 months for growth concerns and the baby was referred to as her,” McGann said.
Yet, when the day finally came for them to meet their new baby, McGann and her husband were told something they did not expect to hear: it’s a boy.
In fact, she said they took a little convincing at first, having been so sure of the gender after multiple confirmations. “The surgeons showed him to us naked to show it was indeed a boy after we had told them it was a girl,” McGann said.
The couple were surprised and they were not alone in expressing shock at how…
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