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What do you think about Gender Reveal Parties?
I just saw a "interesting" video of a Gender Reveal over on the Relationship board . I think the title of the post is "It is finally here"
What do you think about gender reveal parties? Are they cool or tacky? I think they are cool if they involve cake and I dont have to bring a gift.
Would you go to or do this type of party?
Re: What do you think about Gender Reveal Parties?
I think it's a bit AWish.
Although if there is cake and I get to see my friends I guess I can be on board.
What else happens, is the rest of it just a gathering of friends?
Unless it's fruit cake, then I'm out.
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This.
What Ashley did was cute, out to dinner and everyone finds out...when you know and just want to be an AW thats stupid.
Not my thing, but I get the appeal.
I'm not too big on the over the top, cutesy announcement thing though. We called our parents when we found out I was pregnant, called them again to reveal the sex and did a pretty simple "It's a boy" facebook update for everyone else.
It is just a sweet little party celebrating the baby...wait isn't that what a shower is for?! As long as begging for another gift isn't involved, I think it is okay.
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I am also up for dinner.
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Oh jeebus it is the crazy chick's blog! I didn't read the post but that blog is NUTSO.
Is this the crazy lady who won't let anyone near her while she is pregnant, or before she was pregnant? She is a mail order bride, I swear.
We didn't find out either time but if we did we wouldn't have done a party.
That blog is huge right now becuase of how ridiculous and OOT the woman is. I mean she has these posed photos of herself hugging a sparkling clean toilet in her morning sickness post. They have a cleaner for two hours every other day. She had a post about how she was basically going to have to stop doing everything becuase the slightest little thing can cause a miscarriage or some sort of genetic mutation that might make your baby gay (seriously, that was one of the earliest posts, it was HORRENDOUS!).
She even put on there that they found out and then spent the whole next day filming and editing the reveal video. So basically I would say they shot the part where they go to Lowe's to find out and then open the paint and then went back and filmed themselves going into the doctor's office, sitting there waiting, and all the self interviews. They probably only shot the actual reveal and video of the ultrasound as it actually happened. The whole thing is pretty disgusting.
Wow. My head is sooooo not in Nest mode today.
I was thinking that a Gender Reveal Party would be a social event for trans-gendered people.
What can I say? I'm in work mode, and one of my professional contacts lives cross-gender. A lot of people don't realize that h/she is not actually the sex h/she lives as.
Now THIS party sounds interesting!
Also UK I was thinking she does not look pg at all! I know a few girls who are very thin and around 20 weeks and look huge due to being so thin.
I wonder if she is even KU. Which makes me think I should start a really crazy blog like this or $1000/ month which is sent all around the nest and other message boards!
If you have a crazy blog idea send it my way.
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I thought this too!!!
I think baby showers are too over the top for me so I can't imagine having a party to celebrate my having a boy or girl, that's just very, very strange to me.
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Now that is a gender reveal party I would be interested in!
I think they go beyond "a little self-centered and AWish". I find them totally self-centered and AWish. And insufferable.
Ok, so at the risk of being the world's biggest cynic... W(ho)TF cares?
Seriously, if it were me/us... I wouldn't give a hot damn either way-- girl/boy, as long as she/he's healthy, peachy. I can only hope that our families/friends would ditto that.
As for others-- again same deal... if the kid looks good (tests are normal)-- if it's a girl... sweet, she'll be a princess; if it's a boy, great, he'll be a prince.
I just can't imagine giving a sh!t, beyond the healthy part. I mean seriously... do people really give a crap in this day and age? Yeah, I know some girly girls, who would love to dress up a little girl, but I'm sure they'd cope just fine with a little lad. Same for guys who'd "what to throw the ball around w/ their son"... I'm sure that might be an initial feeling upon finding out your SO's pregnant, but when a beautiful baby girl arrives... what he'll want to send her back?
Clearly you haven't spent much time on the bump (and that's a good thing)
I think most people really don't give a crap about the sex of their baby. But there are people out there who do. A lot. Two girls I went to college with were best friends, did everything together, even had their weddings together on the same day (seriously). Then they both got pg and one was having a girl and the other was having a boy. The one having a boy actually refused to speak to the other one for over 6 months because she was angry/jealous that the friend was having a girl and she wasn't.
Mature and rational? No. But it is something some people care about a TON.
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VABeach - As someone who will be finding out the gender, I can honestly say that no, I don't care either way. But I am curious and if I can find out, why not.
I think 'gender reveal party' is a fancy term for something that's been going on forever. If I lived at home and was learning the sex, I'd probably invite my mom, siblings and their spouses over for dinner and tell them all together. (And yes, they'd be excited. They've been asking when I'll know and to call them immediately.) That's essentially a gender reveal party, isn't it? But no, I would not invite everyone I've ever known and make an even bigger production out of it.
I am not cut out to be a mother. If I was pregnant, and someone asked me if I was having a boy or a girl, I hope I'd have the sass to say "The baby has a penis/vagina, if that's what you're asking." I used to think we were beyond gender stereotypes and that it was a non-issue, but I've recently changed my mind.
Sorry, but I think this is going overboard. It is natural to ask if you are having a boy or a girl. If you have a baby and it has a penis will you go around saying 'this is my penis having baby, don't call it a boy!'. I agree that there is a misuse of the word gender but to be annoyed at someone asking if you are having a boy or a girl is ridiculous.
I thought this too. And I was a little grossed out at them actually revealing the new ...instrument. I'm so not in with the baby crowd.
I completely agree! Totally overboard!
And exactly why I'm not cut out to be a mother.
I remember this chic from a past crazy post.
I'm not a fan of big over the top reveals.
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Exactly! See, I understand finding out (I want to pick an name, I want to decorate the nursery, I'm just blazin' curious) your baby's gender. And if you know, hey, why not tell people (if you want). It's more the "party" that throw me... like, I'll reveal a (pick) but not a (pick). IDK, maybe that's just me and a parent to be would throw a party either way, but it just seems like, potentially, it could be stilted and weird.
**Mrs.B**-- You're 100% dead-on, I don't spend much time on the bump! Further, it freaks me out that two good friends would be "angry/annoyed" that they were having different gendered kids. WTH? Call me simple, but I'd just think it was cool that my BFF and I had kids of a similar age and hope that maybe they'd someday be friends (regardless of gender).
I think it's crazy to have a party to reveal the sex of the baby. No one cares but the parents and maybe their families.
Off to check crazy girl's blog!
This. One of my cousins did this on Christmas morning in front of her sister, nephews and parents. They all opened the envelope from the big U/S together and it sounds like the moment was quite sweet. When the rest of us arrived for dinner later, we all found out as well, but it was Christmas, not a "gender reveal party."
Personally, I never really know what to say to most people when they tell me they're having a boy or a girl. It seems like my initial "congratulations" at the pregnancy news should cover it all. What more is there to say?
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