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

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'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.

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-media and media generated narrative about toxic masculinity that’s become pervasive and self-perpetuating, but that’s really not grounded in biological fact,” Heidi Murkoff, author of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” told The Post.'