My daughter is expecting her 3rd baby in early August. She has a 7 1/2 yr. old son and a 6 year old son. She really wants a girl so she took the test a few months ago because she couldn’t stand the suspense. Trust me, she would be 100% fine with another boy. The test said girl and subsequent ultrasounds have confirmed this. Her husband refuses to know the sex of the baby but she wants to prepare as best she can. The baby is going to have club foot and will need clothing that can be worn with casts.
Abortion would never be in her vocabulary.
We wanted to find out the sex of our first baby and would have been thrilled with either sex, just healthy, but we do plan on trying for #2 and I am seriously debating not finding out the sex until birth whereas my hubby says he will want to know the sex. I wonder how that will go...one of us knowing and the other not. And yeah, I’d love another boy but honestly, I will be “thinking pink” :) BTW - glad the test worked for her but if it’s the one I’m thinking of, it is sort of a hoax :) Only an ultrasound or amnio/cvs can tell for sure.
My oldest child, now 30 years old, was born with bilateral club feet --- both 90 degrees from where they should be.
We went through the castings starting at day number two of her life and every week for the first few months. From there, it was shoes with bars at night and then some surgery at age one with more casts, orthopedic shoes and then another final surgery at age five. By the time she was 8 years old, she was done and we no longer needed to see the orthopedist.
If you would see her today you would never know there was ever any problem to begin with. She is just a beautiful young woman, with her own beautiful daughter and she does not even remember the treatments -- even if I remember it vividly every time she had pain from the casting and operations.
Tell your daughter that it is no big deal, because it isn't.
But with modern casting techniques Baby will be fine and will dance beautifully at her own wedding. And the clothing issue is not that big a deal, it'll work out.