Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire So, we found out the baby is a girl today

Yep.
Be thankful, period. I think having children is taken for granted.

Gonna go mess with mine now!

Just like you would a son. Trust me, when they would rather hang out with you than with Mom, when they come quietly to you and ask for help with dealing with some of life's hardest problems (for a pre-teen or teenager), when they call you from college and BEG you to take them big game hunting, when they want their "Daddy" just before walking down the aisle, when they just want to talk with their "Dad", and when they make GOOD decisions about their mate because YOU taught them how a man/boyfriend/husband/father should act, you realize that your life wouldn't come close to being the same with a son.

I have one daughter and two sons. I wouldn't trade the world for any of them, but there is something special about a father-daughter bond that cannot be replicated.

My daughter is a much better pistol shot than either of my sons, having wore out my Ruger MKII before she was 16, she isn't much of an angler, but she is into camping, hunting, archery, and she cleans and cooks what she eats.

This initial disappointment will pass, my daughter is the oldest, and I can remember wanting to take the oldest son places and teach him things and then I realized I could work the kinks out of this "Daddy" thing with her. I have never regretted having a daughter and I'm betting you won't either.

Ed

I'm quite aware of basic Biology. Nothing I have done or said has indicated that I think it's my fianc�s fault. Nor do I feel that way, but I am fully entitled to feel dissapointed for a while.

be thankful.....I would not trade a dozen boys for my two daughters.....

That's ridiculous.



Travis

Sorry to hear that you feel that way.
Shortly after that baby girl is born, her mother will, most likely, need to sleep (my wife did anyway.) While mama is sleeping, hold your daughter, watch her, listen to her, talk to her. The emotions that you will experience will be diverse and staggering. Pride, humility, anticipation, fear, and love are a few. I'd be willing to wager that indifference and unexcitement will not.
Best wishes to you and your family.

Years ago I got a women pregnant.


I planned on staying with her until she told me it was going to be a girl.


Adios!


Not sure what ended up happening to either of them.

Can't quite wrap my head around that...

Congrats on the bairn. Healthy is the only thing that matters git.

TFF Sam!

This is so spot on. I've got three boys, we wanted a girl badly but after three the odds (and lack of cash) were stacked against us. I would NEVER trade any sex healthy baby for one that wasn't healthy.

Seriously - it isn't 1950 - girls are far more powerful then boys are. Just look what we all do to get laid!



Congrats by the way.

Maybe you were. I wasn't.

As long as you make the pig shoot, all is well.

Girls are great its women I have a problem with. Think about this, if she is brought up in the goose blind and fishin with you she probably will end up marrying someone you like or at least can tolerate. And girls love their daddy more than momma most of the time. You just have to learn to deal with all the emotional $hit, but boys become kinda brain dead at the onset of teendom. You won't be to disappointed once you hold her.

the original post says a lot about the poster.
I have a daughter, that i adopted when she was 30 for various reasons.
We were dove hunting yesterday, and i never had more fun. She let the ol fahrt sit in the chair and bird dogged the doves for me. And I guarantee she smells better than boys, and when we got home i had three days of dinners made by her. Best thing i ever did is marry her mother and inherit her. Only issue is she thinks too much like me.

as mine say
"Girls rule, boys drool".........

I can see where Gitem_12 is coming from, and from my own experience.....

With our first child we decided not to find out if it was going to be a boy or a girl. Like any first time father I hoped for a boy, mostly because of all the reasons every father wants his own little boy, it is just the way some guys are wired.

8 months or so later, after the babies room had been painted and all of the "stuff" was light greens and other gender neutral colors, out squishes this little person, all covered in icky stuff. The docs plopped that goo covered little person on my wife and said "ITS A GIRL!!!!"

For about 30 seconds I admit to thinking "ugh a girl" ..........then I got to hold her. I am guessing you will follow a similar path.




BTW, when the doc finally gives mom the all clear for extracurricular activities.............be careful.........I got twin boys 14 months after the girl child showed up.

That really isn't important - she will guide you as to what she needs you to teach her. Welcome/embrace it - you have an incredible opportunity awaiting you...

Teach her just like you would a boy. They can do everything a boy can do - don't kid yourself. My two are now 11 and 9, help me reload, cast bullets, target shoot, hunt with me, help me gut deer, butcher everything we shoot, catch fish, load the boat, play in fish guts, fillet fish, catch frogs, play in the mud,bake bread, make breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They earned their black belts in Tae Kwon Do in June. They also are highly skilled pianists and singers (mom and I are both trained musicians with music education degrees), love to play with our dogs, love to play with dolls, make art projects, braid each other's hair, paint fingernails and toenails and do everything that normal girls do. But they also do everything the boys do - and usually do it better. They are at the top of their class in every imaginable way. Don't be disappointed - be excited about learning new stuff with her and be her DADDY!!! One of my favorite quotes is this. "Any human being with the right combination of chromosomes can be a father. It takes a man to be called 'daddy'". Never, ever, ever, ever resent that she is not a boy - you'll regret it for the rest of your life - but you won't know your regret until it's too late.

Chiming in as one with 3 sons and 1 daughter. My first 3 are boys, all of them like Mama more than me. But my last, Baby Girl is MY baby... She wants to spend all her time with Dad.

Girls are wonderful for dads, trust me. She will shoot like her brothers, I'm sure of it.