Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why you finding out the sex of your child means you have to have a gender reveal party. Why can't you jut find out the sex of your baby and go on with your life like a normal person?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I feel like waiting is often something people do for attention. Given that it's so easy to know these days it feels like made up drama.
We found out and sent pink or blue flowers to the grandparents and great grandparent. They were super surprised and each called us to celebrate. It was very fun to share with them, even if long distance. We didn't do a gender reveal. If I had older kids, I'd probably do something special just with them, like pink or blue filled cupcakes after dinner.
This.
Anonymous wrote:Tot. Meet tat. The only name calling or psych evaluations have been bobbed against those who prefer to wait. It’s weird. Why do you care?
Anonymous wrote:I love how we can see the world in such different ways.
I didn’t get genetic testing either. I was going to love the baby no matter what so if they had downs or if they were a boy or a girl or …..whatever…….i was just going to love them. I didn’t have their whole life dreamed out as a ballerina or a football player or whatever in my head.
I found the social trend at the time (2010 or so) was to have gender reveals, set up hashtags unique to baby, call them by name, get monogrammed things and post their pottery room “boy” nursery to the facebooks to be attention seeking.
20 weeks or 40 weeks: same result.
Frankly I find adulthood pretty tedious. Mail comes. Taxes get paid. Electric bill. Red lights.
For me- it was more fun seeing them and meeting them and finding out their sex at birth in that amazing post delivery oxytocin rush. I loved it.
I don’t diminish those who choose otherwise. But I do hope you give your kids their Christmas presents as soon as you buy them. Otherwise you’re just being dramatic

Anonymous wrote:I feel like waiting is often something people do for attention. Given that it's so easy to know these days it feels like made up drama.
We found out and sent pink or blue flowers to the grandparents and great grandparent. They were super surprised and each called us to celebrate. It was very fun to share with them, even if long distance. We didn't do a gender reveal. If I had older kids, I'd probably do something special just with them, like pink or blue filled cupcakes after dinner.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this logic that it “helps with names.” it’s not like there are a million outcomes to prepare for? Pick a name for a girl and a name for a boy and be done.
Some people agonize over names or struggle to agree with their partner. It's easier to do this just once instead of twice.
But also I think it's nice to have the name picked out before the baby is born. I liked talking to the baby in utero using the name. It made it feel like we were already friends by the time the birth happened.
Anonymous wrote:We found out.
Don't understand waiting to find out that crucial news.
Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand this logic that it “helps with names.” it’s not like there are a million outcomes to prepare for? Pick a name for a girl and a name for a boy and be done.