Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy! ; You'vegotmaleas Victoria Beckham Awaits the Birth of Her Fourth Child - a Longed-for Girl That She Can Dress in Pretty Clothes - Fanny Blake Describes the Unexpected Delights of Having an All-Boy Team...

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When I heard the words, 'It's a boy,' I was sure the midwife had made a mistake. It was inconceivable to me that I'd have a boy. I am one of two sisters whose mother is one of two sisters. A month earlier, my sister had just had her first daughter (of two, as it was to be).

Besides, girls were what I knew. I'd been to an all-girls school, played in all-girl teams, I'd been a Brownie and a Guide. Young boys and what made them tick were alien to me.

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Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy! ; You'vegotmaleas Victoria Beckham Awaits the Birth of Her Fourth Child - a Longed-for Girl That She Can Dress in Pretty Clothes - Fanny Blake Describes the Unexpected Delights of Having an All-Boy Team...

We had asked the radiographer not to tell us the sex of our baby. I thought I knew, and Robin, my husband, wanted the surprise. During those nine pregnant months, I'd imagined us in a world where dolls, fairies and princesses were the stuff of everyday life. We had a shortlist of girls' names but hadn't given a thought to what we might call a boy.

However, as soon as I saw our baby, his sex couldn't have been less important. The bond was instant, although the name was not. In the end we settled on Matthew, a name...

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