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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I felt more excited about my babies after I knew the sex so I could talk about them by name and imagine their futures. It made me feel more connected to my pregnancies. [/quote]

I intentionally didn't find out in part because of this-- had a miscarriage and a friend with a baby lost at 39 weeks (emergency c section and lived a week... ).  I mean a loss is devasting no matter what but I didn't want to get AS emotionally invested until they were in my arms.  The only real con for us was i had to prep for both a potential bris and baby naming (we're Jewish)- nearly everything else can happen after the fact.  In Jewish custom you're not supposed to buy stuff for baby in advance anyway (and we had plenty of hand me downs of both genders)- so there was lots of angst with my husband about a bris that we fortunately didn't need- but now we've done the research and have a plan in case next kid is a boy.  I had at least 8 ultrasounds and NIPT- there was a simple thing we checked with doing NIPT to select don't share gender- we could still find out results immediately on portal without seeing gender.  At our first ultrasound they asked us if we wanted to know the sex and marked no on our emr and they'd confirm that at each scan.  Was never an issue.  The ultrasound techs always would tell us when to close our eyes during scans but still showed us all the relevant health stuff.  It was a very special moment when we found out the sex at birth.  [/quote]

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