In the months before their fifth child was born, Royals starter Ian Kennedy and his wife, Allison, made a choice. They did not want to learn whether they were having a boy or girl until birth.
“We switched it up this time,” Kennedy said in August. “We’re not finding it out.”
The decision went a little deeper than you might think. When Allison was pregnant with each of their first four children, they learned beforehand, Kennedy said. They ended up with four girls.
Not that the Kennedys did not love their family as it was, or that the strategy would have any real effect, but after being severely outnumbered in his own household, Ian Kennedy said he was “praying” for son No.