Bye bye boys! The provocative reason so many moms now only want girls

Stuart Brazell had already given birth to two boys when she convinced her husband to try for a third baby—certain that this time she’d finally have the daughter she’d always dreamed of.Brazell envisioned the little girl so vividly that during sound baths, she imagined them running together through a lavender field.But when she learned she was expecting another son, the Los Angeles mom was devastated.“I just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed,” Brazell recalled.She filmed her emotional reaction and later shared it on TikTok, joining other parents publicly documenting their disappointment when the gender-reveal confetti turns blue.Three years later, she adores her boys, now 8, 6 and 3.Her youngest, she told The Post, is “the best thing that’s ever happened to her” and even has an uncanny resemblance to the daughter she once dreamed of.

 “But I’ll never get the opportunity and privilege to raise a daughter and have that special bond I had with my mother,” she admitted, even as she felt blessed to conceive naturally in her 40s.“I will forever mourn not having a daughter.I think about it daily.

Multiple times a day.I cry about it regularly.”Brazell’s complicated feelings are part of a larger conversation about “gender disappointment,” increasingly playing out at elaborate baby reveals that send expectant parents into tears — and their reactions rack up millions of views on TikTok.Once considered the coveted family heir and the one to carry the family name, baby boys are getting a decidedly less warm reception in some corners of modern parenthood.

Amid fraught conversations about masculinity, gender roles and the challenges of raising sons, research suggests the age-old preference for boys may be losing its grip.Until 2011, research consistently found that when asked, most people preferred to have a son.But a 2018 Cornell University study suggested that the longstanding preference for boys was declining.“It’s being driven by a social-m...