Seaneen Molloy · @ms_molly_vog
19th Oct 2014 from TwitLonger
Had so much to get our heads around this week. Now the trying to get my head around having a son and not a daughter. I never imagined having a son, maybe because I have 3 sisters (and a bro too). I'm not upset but it's a mental adjustment after more than 2 months. I think thinking I was growing a girl made pregnancy and motherhood feel less alien, less remote. Because I'm female too, it felt like an extension of my own body. It's also made me think about gender and how I've internalised gender roles and expectations and how careful I need to be not to externalise them onto my son, nor let my own negative experiences of men colour my feelings. What I am really having is a child. Not a boy nor a man.