There are way too many people out there that don't seem to realize it's the sperm cell that determines the sex of your eventual kid...and that you can't choose which of the millions of sperm get to your egg.

He told his mom what position they use??? Eww!!!

WOW. First the husband and his mother are horrible and dangerous. Second: HOORAY. You go girl, fighting for your baby girl, getting full custody and she's a healthy baby. Congratulations and I hope you can get on with your life and be happy.

Is it just me or are the amount of toxic adults with more toxic mothers, on the rise? Its all you ever here, toxic mammy to her son and he's an adult brat.... come on natural selection where's your help here?

I think that your husband and his family are total bunch of moronic arseholes and that this whole s**t-show may well turn out to be a blessing in disguise if it means that you don't have to spend the rest of your life with them.

Insane! This is too crazy to be real. Is this real?

Firstly, grats on the win. 2ndly, as a Chinese man, I apologize for your ex's stupidity. I know how it feels because I had the same problem with my mom. The only difference was I told her "if its a girl, then you have a granddaughter. If its a boy, a grandson. It shouldn't matter which one is it. Ultimately you're the grandmother and that is your grandchild"

Wow. Just wow. First of all, old wives tales aren't enough to predict the sex of a baby. Secomd of all, you can't rip apart a newborn from their mother, no matter the excuse. What if she decided to breastfeed the baby? Third of all, the monster in law-I mean...mother in law is just batshit crazy. Aparently she needs to know the position. they used? What? Hopefully the mother amd daughter are doing good. 2023 is NOT the year we keep thia misogynistic shjt

How is 27 and 28 "late in the game"?

Words don't even DESCRIBE how mad I feel. OP's MIL is a literal psychopath! And I'm guessing that if they did all the same things, and it turned out to be a boy, OP wouldn't have been "manipulative"?! Good on BIL for distancing himself and his family from that family.

are there seriously people like this? I mean, the husband and mil obviously genuinely believe they are in the right, it's insane. human beings are weird man.

He left her without a second thought. Then his post mentioned girlfriend and it was 'ding, ding' there is your answer. Dude was probably cheating on her the whole time and his mother convinced him to leave her. The whole 'girl baby' as an excuse was so trivial, bonkers and lame.

When he mentioned his girlfriend in passing... wow.

I don't understand any of this. I read it twice. The mil and husband don't want a girl but they want full custody? The mother got full custody because the husband didn't want a girl? There has to be more to this. Maybe someone is an addict or abusive.

I'm sorry, what century is this story from? Didn't those people have biology in school? Anyway... maybe it's better that they showed their true colors early enough, so OP and her daughter will waste less time and herbreak on them.

How long until people like this husband and mother-in-law just stop existing?

Stories like this make me realize that safe loneliness is better than terrifying coupling.

"But I'm a niccccee guy"

It's beyond sad. This person who thought you could choose - for the love, you can't. And having been an unplanned person, I'm the light of my dad's life. Neither of my parents would have planned out the trajectory of their lives, and I was a major road block for both (who are pro-choice, which means choice, and I respect that as a person who may not have been born). This guy. Who thinks we as women or girls are less.

wow. just wow. this is off the charts insane. i'm so glad OP got full custody. wow. i'm gobsmacked. i cannot believe what i've just read

What the actual hell???

Hmmmmm....

So while you two were still married and he's got a girlfriend.

You could have had a 5 year old lawyer and won this case.

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So sick of all these "these people are horrible" articles. People come to this site to avoid that kind of thing!