Pro-life video of the day: Lucky 13th son
by Hans Johnson
Jay and Kateri Schwandt of Michigan joked when they learned they were having another baby after 12 boys that they would be just fine if it wasn’t a girl, because that would be uncharted territory in their experience. But what would be the odds? Well, it was an estimated .02% chance to have 12 boys in a row. It just dropped even lower when their thirteenth was born a few days after Mother’s Day.
The Schwandts appeared with their sons, aged 22 down to newborn Francisco, on Fox & Friends:
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May.26, 2015 12:00 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Awwww!!! I love this story though. I already had my 2 boys and when I got pregnant with this baby it seemed like EVERYONE wanted baby to be a girl. I think in my heart I KNEW I was carrying another boy because every time someone said “I bet you hope its a girl!” or “You better be having a girl this time!” I felt VERY defensive and protective of the baby.
Because I loved THIS baby no matter the gender. This was MY child and this child had a right to be celebrated and loved no matter WHAT! So when the ultrasound tech got a between-the-legs shot it was clear as day that I was blessed with another baby boy! A family friend actually said to me “Another stinkin boy!!!!!” when she found out the news.
But you know what? I love being a boy mom. I don’t think I’d know how to play with toys with my kids if I weren’t blowing them up or crashing them. My boys are precious to me because they are the children God picked for our family. I can’t wait to meet this newest little son in 3 months. Every time he kicks I just feel so much love for him and I am so thankful for his precious little life.
So I feel solidarity with this other boy mom. Although she’s got me beat by 10 sons. Being a boy mom rules!
“A family friend actually said to me “Another stinkin boy!!!!!””
Egads! Maybe it’s time to change up that family friend list a bit. I know I kept a few on my list way longer than they deserved!
My mom: 4 tries to get a girl.
My brother: 4 tries to get a girl.
My sister: 3 tries to get a girl.
My brother-in-law: 3 tries to get a girl.
The odds of having a girl decrease only slightly after having a boy – for example, after having the first three kids be boys, the odds are only 6.4% greater that the fourth kid will be a boy, versus a girl.
“A family friend actually said to me “Another stinkin boy!!!!!” when she found out the news.”
Um… that’s ridiculously rude.
You’re a great mom Sydney!
Sorry but it is sad to me that families “try” for a child of either gender.
:( As if all of the other children born were just “another try for what we really wanted.”
My dad had 3 girls. It was made quite clear that he didn’t get what he really wanted. A son.
I have a friend who has 5 boys. She has had her fill of those that keep asking when she is going to “try” for her girl. You know. The girl that is promised I guess.
Thank you so much Deluded!
Carla–EXACTLY. I hate that question “Were you trying for a girl?” Um…no. We were trying for a baby and we were successful! As Jewels Green says “My sons are not failed attempts at conceiving girls.”
My friend just had her 3rd girl and she gets the same reactions “Oh you must be so disappointed not to have a boy.” She’s like “I have 3 precious little girls. How on earth can I be disappointed?”
Carla: My dad had 3 girls. It was made quite clear that he didn’t get what he really wanted. A son.
Indeed, that is sad when it’s that way.
I also think the “trying for a baby of ‘the other’ sex” is silly – how, really, would one do that?
Yet and still, in all the families I know where a string of one-sex kids was followed by one of the other sex, everybody is darn glad about that, and in no way would they want to have it not be that way, i.e. have all the kids be one sex only.