This is a highly emotionally charged situation, and I feel very deeply for you concerning the loss of your child.
Could I however add that I feel very uncomfortable with the idea that if this baby is a boy that it will either be seen as a replacement for the one you lost, or that if it turns out to be a girl then you have failed Dominic's soul in not providing a suitable body for him to reincarnate again as a boy?
I do not wish to offend your own beliefs about this, but think about the terrible pressure that a male child will be under to be able to compare to what image you have of Dominic, and what a blow it would be the self confidence of a girl for her birth to be seen as being a failure.
My belief on the other hand is that no child will ever replace Dominic in your heart (or at least your image of what you think Dominic would have turned out to be if the pregnancy had gone full term). Also as a spirit has no sex in itself and can equally inhabit a male or female body in order to learn very different types of lessons, how do you know that Dominic's spirit has not returned this time as a female?
If I say that I feel it is to be a boy and your secret wish was to be realised, then it turned out to be a girl how much more disappointed would you be than if I had never made the prediction? If I said it was to be a girl, how would these influence your attitudes towards your unborn child? If a pregnant woman's thoughts have a power as we have been taught to actually influence the development of her embryo and later her foetus, then I myself would rather encourage you to send them messages of unconditional love and acceptance while still in the womb, instead of giving them a poor start to life by loading them up with expectations of what they must be like.
As long as you do take this prediction with a grain of salt and do not use it to influence how you feel towards the baby growing inside you (especially if it turns out to be a girl),
my first impression is that while it will again be a male child, that it's spirit will not be the one which would have been Dominic's, if he had lived.
There is absolutely no way that you can prevent Dominic's spirit from returning home by your own actions, as our true home is not of this world. You do not owe his spirit anything, as it is not within your control to decide such matters, and we can only each be held responsible for those things which are.
This is I sense going to be a very different and special child when compared to your ideas of what Dominic would have been like, whose mere presence will fill your lives with a joy which you could never have imagined after your significant loss. Rather than placing your feelings of hope for the future with this being a boy and with him being the reincarnated Dominic, place it instead in the belief that there is a much wiser and Higher Power at work here, and that whatever the child is like will be just right for your own development as both an individual and parent.
Hoping that you will understand my reasons for not wanting to give you any preconceived ideas whatsoever as to what your next child will be like, and especially it's gender,
Take extra good care of yourself,
eye_of_tiger
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