It's a boy!

My brother called me this evening from Spokane to let me know that the baby his daughter and her husband are expecting in early June is a boy. They're very pleased.  Their first child is a girl so now they will have one of each. It made me wonder, would I have wanted to know. When I had my two children, 40+ years ago, it wasn't an option, but I think I might have liked to know.  It seems to me the baby might seem a little more real a little sooner, although, as I recall, they become awfully real very quickly once they're born.  Life is never the same and that's a very good thing.