WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for May, 2000: Re: post pardum/ wrong sex baby

Re: post pardum/ wrong sex baby

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 30 May 2000 21:20:42 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 30 May 2000, wanda wrote: >
>I just had a baby two and a half weeks ago. I love my son but he was
>supposed to be a girl. I feel like I have lost a child. I feel sad,
>sometimes I find myself tryying to convince myself that it is ok that he
>is a boy. Then I feel guilty becuase I should just be happy he is
>helthy. But I miss my little girl. My sister in-law called and toled
>us she was pregnant and I have become even more depressed, because I
>just know she is going to get my little girl. It makes me want to get
>pregnant again. Are these feelings normal and will they pass? Four
>ultrasounds said it was a girl, and he was a well endowed six pound boy

This is not unusual but if these feelings don't pass soon, couselling may be a good idea. I had a patient who actually became obsessed with having a baby with the "wrong" sex. The sono wasn't wrong. She just "envisioned" a different sex baby.

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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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