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* Chazon Ovadyah ([[Brachot]] pg 388) quotes the Chesed LeAlafim that the Sephardic minhag is not to make the HaTov VeHaMeitiv at the time of the birth but to have the [[Shehecheyanu]] at the [[brit milah]] cover the whole occasion. He also quotes Rav Kapach explains that this is the reason the Rambam didn't quote this halacha. Kaf Hachaim 223:6 and Halacha Brurah 223:1 agree that the minhag is to wait to make [[Shehecheyanu]] at the milah. The Birkat Hashem (Rav Moshe HaLevi, vol 4, 2:61) and [[Brachot]] Shir VeHaShevach (pg 475-6), however, argues with the Chesed LeAlafim and says that it is proper to follow Shulchan Aruch to make the bracha.</ref> | * Chazon Ovadyah ([[Brachot]] pg 388) quotes the Chesed LeAlafim that the Sephardic minhag is not to make the HaTov VeHaMeitiv at the time of the birth but to have the [[Shehecheyanu]] at the [[brit milah]] cover the whole occasion. He also quotes Rav Kapach explains that this is the reason the Rambam didn't quote this halacha. Kaf Hachaim 223:6 and Halacha Brurah 223:1 agree that the minhag is to wait to make [[Shehecheyanu]] at the milah. The Birkat Hashem (Rav Moshe HaLevi, vol 4, 2:61) and [[Brachot]] Shir VeHaShevach (pg 475-6), however, argues with the Chesed LeAlafim and says that it is proper to follow Shulchan Aruch to make the bracha.</ref> | ||
# If one didn't make the bracha right away, one may still say the bracha. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 223:3 writes that even if he didn't make the bracha right away he can still make the bracha because certainly it's still great news.</ref> | # If one didn't make the bracha right away, one may still say the bracha. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 223:3 writes that even if he didn't make the bracha right away he can still make the bracha because certainly it's still great news.</ref> | ||
# If one's wife had a baby girl both the father and mother should make the bracha of [[Shehecheyanu]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 223:2. See also Piskei Teshuvot 223:1. Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igrot Moshe 5:43:5) writes that even though a person usually has more worries about the finances and difficulty of finding a proper suitor for a daughter than he has for a boy, these concerns don't prevent his joy upon the birth of a girl. Therefore, it is fitting to recite Shehechiyanu.</ref> | # If one's wife had a baby girl both the father and mother should make the bracha of [[Shehecheyanu]].<ref> Mishna Brurah 223:2. See also Piskei Teshuvot 223:1. Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igrot Moshe 5:43:5) writes that even though a person usually has more worries about the finances and difficulty of finding a proper suitor for a daughter than he has for a boy, these concerns don't prevent his joy upon the birth of a girl. Therefore, it is fitting to recite Shehechiyanu.</ref> According to Sephardim it is proper to recite Shehechiyanu upon a new fruit or new clothing including the happiness of having a baby girl.<ref>Halacha Brurah 223:3 writes that if one is very happy to see one's baby girl for the first time one can recite a Shehechiyanu. However, the Chazon Ovadia Brachot p. 389 implies otherwise. He first quotes the Mishna Brurah and Igrot Moshe who allow reciting Shehechiyanu and then proceeds to quote Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo p. 280), Eshel Avraham Mbuchatch 223, Bear Moshe 5:69, and Mishna Halachot 2:181 who argue. He concludes that it is proper to recite the Shehechiyanu upon a new fruit or new clothing and have intent to include the happy occasion of having a baby girl.</ref> | ||
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