Gender Reveals are tacky.

[Anonymous]

Self centered. Especially when the couple already has a boy and a girl...does it really matter to anyone but the parents if the 3rd (4th, 5th, etc.) baby is a boy or girl?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gender reveal parties = tacky

Waiting to reveal the gender until birth = artificially manufactured anticipation to unnecessarily amplify an already pretty cool thing. It's crazy easy and convenient to know the baby's sex before birth. You have to ACTIVELY choose not to find out these days, which seems a very artificial thing to do. So I guess you are right, because in a way, the people who are so adamant that "it be a surprise" may be just as bad as the gender reveal people. When you make the choice NOT to find out the gender, and tell everyone you know that you "want a surprise," you are just creating a fuss over something no one really cares about anyway. People ask the gender of your unborn baby to be polite, not because they actually care.

Just find out the gender at 20 weeks, tell people, and move on. All this fuss is exhausting.

Thank you for confirming that you care waaaaaaay more about this shit than anyone else does. If you care more about a couple finding out the sex in the delivery room than they do, you are f-ing embarrassing yourself.

[Anonymous]

I need to have someone explain to me what exactly they don’t like about gender reveal parties.
I agree with pp, I am excited to go to them. I have baked a cake for one too, and it was a lot of fun. It doesn’t seem worse than any other reason to have a party.

[Anonymous]

If I like the people having one, it’ll probably be a fun party. I like my friends/family. I like babies. I like parties. So what’s the big deal?

[Anonymous]

Part of the objection is because of the incredibly gendered expectations placed on someone you haven't even gotten to know. Maybe she'll be mommy's little cheerleader and wear pink and be sweet, but maybe she'll be an athlete and scientist who loves football. And maybe daddy's little linebacker will love ballet. Ultimately maybe your kids gender isn't as important as you think it is because anyone can be anything they want.

[Anonymous]

Not my thing, but neither are baby showers, so....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Part of the objection is because of the incredibly gendered expectations placed on someone you haven't even gotten to know. Maybe she'll be mommy's little cheerleader and wear pink and be sweet, but maybe she'll be an athlete and scientist who loves football. And maybe daddy's little linebacker will love ballet. Ultimately maybe your kids gender isn't as important as you think it is because anyone can be anything they want.

I don’t think this is the issue. It’s mostly because it’s a “look at me me me “ issue

[Anonymous]

One firefighter dead today. Utter devastation.

This baby is not even born yet and has caused so much devastation and death. Wow! Really inauspicious and hideous beginning and entirely orchestrated by the parents?? Really? This is what they wanted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so much tackiness with expectant parents. I don't care about your child's genitalia. I don't want to see a 8x10 framed photo of the ultrasound. I definitely don't want to see uploaded photos of a diaper blowout on my feed. Just stop it. You are not the first ones to be dealing with this stuff.

Then take us off your feed. It's optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enough said...
Gender reveal videos, parties, announcements, etc. are low class and tacky.

I agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I like the people having one, it’ll probably be a fun party. I like my friends/family. I like babies. I like parties. So what’s the big deal?

If announcing your baby’s genitalia is the only reason you can think of to have a party with friends, families and babies, you have serious problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Part of the objection is because of the incredibly gendered expectations placed on someone you haven't even gotten to know. Maybe she'll be mommy's little cheerleader and wear pink and be sweet, but maybe she'll be an athlete and scientist who loves football. And maybe daddy's little linebacker will love ballet. Ultimately maybe your kids gender isn't as important as you think it is because anyone can be anything they want.

I don’t think this is the issue. It’s mostly because it’s a “look at me me me “ issue

+1. And I want gifts.

[Anonymous]

I think some people are jealous that they didn’t get invited.

[Anonymous]

You have to wait until halfway to find the gender anyway.
With our first we didn't know and had to actively tell the doctors office to not mention it.
I enjoyed getting my surprise. It seemed more a part of the birth announcement.

[Anonymous]

We did something but it was pretty private. We had the doctor/tech write down the gender in a sealed envelope. We then went to Nordstorms and picked a boy outfit and girl outfit and handed the clerk our credit card and asked them to pick the outfit to match whatever was in the envelope. We then went to dinner by ourselves and opened the gift wrapped packaged. It was a nice suprise and a fun way to pick out the first outfit.