On a much, much lighter note, I set up one o’ them thar baby pools at expectnet. It’s in my Babyish links on the left, enter the name ‘gretchen’ for the game name, and have fun guessing gender, delivery date, weight and length and stuff.

FWIW, I actually HAD a gender dream, finally! I’ve had lots of monkey dreams, and dreamed of both genders, but all the other babies I’ve dreamed of were not MINE. i’m holding them, or putting them in a carseat, or whatever as through they WERE mine, but I know that they aren’t, And those dreams have involved both sexes. The last one was that I was taking care of the moominbaby, who is a girl IRL, butin the dream, was a boy, and either way, it wasn’t MY baby, I knew all the way through that it was M’s.

So, in my dream two nights ago, I woke up and had had the baby in my sleep or something. It was very odd. My mom was there, as was a baby in a bassinet, and I said "but, that’s not MY baby, is it?" and my mom insisted it was, so I walked over and read the wrist id label, and saw what it was, and what it weighed. I’ve told Amy (AMY, don’t spill, since I want to see what others guess) and Dave of course (but he doesn’t wander this way) but other than that, I’m just interested in what the internet thinks. My family and Dave’s family thinks BOY, in a big way.  Uni people think boy because I’m carrying high and because I’m carrying low. (Seriously, got that pair of comments in ONE DAY.)  All of the "answer these ten or so questions about cravings and headaches and stuff" quizzes come out, I’m not kidding, 50/50.

So, go ahead, guess!