Did You Correctly Predict Your Baby’s Gender?

July 31, 2014

Well my radar was off because at my 20-week sonogram the tech revealed: It’s a boy! And it was like Mia walked away to live with another single mother. I quickly rewired my brain, changing the name to a handsome and cool, Jack Domenic, buying a tiny denim jacket and re-thinking that grey and pale pink nursery, to brown and lime green. And from the…

Single mom Christine Coppa is the author of the Target Breakout Book, Rattled! (Broadway Books, 2009) and the founding blogger of glamour.com's acclaimed Storked! blog where she spilled it about navigating an unplanned pregnancy and single motherhood minus her son's father. You can also find her witty (and often controversial blogs) on parenting.com, babble.com and Nickmom.com A professional writer/editor, she's contributed to Glamour, Marie Claire (Australia), First for Women, In Touch, Parenting, Baby Talk, and Parents among other publications and notable websites. Her work has been buzzed about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on ABC's 20/20. Coppa and her son represented the Yoplait Kids brand in 2011. The Sunday London Times called her a writer "at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." Coppa lives in North Jersey with her son Jack Domenic, 6 who is currently campaigning for a Golden Retriever puppy.