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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually go further than Miss Martin.  To me it is tacky to reveal the gender before the birth.  [/quote]

Why tacky? 
"Do you know what you're having"
"Yes, a girl" it 
"Congratulations!"

Where's the tackiness?

Although I agree that gender reveal parties are horrible.[/quote]

I'm not PP and maybe wouldn't describe it is "tacky," but any sort of big announcement of a baby's sex does make me uncomfortable.  We told people when they asked like you're describing, but we never made, like, a Facebook announcement of the sex or told anyone who didn't ask.  It just doesn't seem like it should be as important as people sometimes treat it.  And people attach so much weird stuff to the sex of a baby who hasn't even been born yet.  Like, the only thing the ultrasound told me was that my daughter had female genitalia, not anything about her personality.  And she could grow up to be a lesbian, or trans, or whatever.  People start saying all that creepy stuff like calling baby girls heartbreakers or flirts or talking about how much trouble they'll be as teenagers or whatever and just ugh.  I'm sure there are similar things people say about baby boys.  It just seems like putting so much artificial social stuff on a kid who hasn't even been born yet. [/quote]
I also hate gender reveal parties, but PP was saying that telling people the gender at all is tacky. I still don't understand why. [/quote]

DIfferent PP.  That's not the way I read it.  I think that PP was saying that it was tacky to "reveal" the gender like some sort of announcement or making it big news.  Telling people the gender is fine, but don't make it a bigger deal than it is.[/quote]

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