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Do you know what Pickle's gender is and are not telling or are you choosing to be suprised? If you don't know will you share the reason that you're not finding out? The idea of not finding out intrigues me. Seems like the one actual suprise in life ywim?
Re: Tasty
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Groomz that makes a lot of sense. I had no idea what team green meant either.
Winged, did you just buy the essentials in gender neutral and then get gender specific items after he became known as a he? I love the idea of not knowing and Dh would agree with me but I've never known anyone IRL who didn't find out.
I wish I could have waited to find out, but it's just not my personality. If the information is out there, I MUST have it. Though I will say it was a great moment when the tech told us that I had a peen in me (though I knew beforehand. I just knew from the first sonogram he was a boy).
yeah, neutral colors which are really pretty easy to find. and i wanted a neutral nursery anyway (oranges, greens, browns, bright blue)
Buddah it's generally not my personality to wait either but I think this is something I might do. It woulddrive my MIL INSANE. That would be worth the wait in and of itself. A quiet form of torture. but knowing her she'd probably try to get it out of the dr. Illegal I know but she'd try.
honestly, i knew he was a boy too. but i kept worrying it was just because i wanted a boy.
its not my personality either but my h really wanted to wait. atr first i was unsure but i ended up loving not knowing.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Have you started the pool yet? Gambling is a surefire way of alleviating the pain of torture.
We didn't find out beforehand either, and I never even considered doing it any other way. Having the midwife hold him up for me to say "it's a boy" is such a great memory for me. I was surprised how many people were upset with us for not finding out.
I also knew it was a boy, but F and I never talked about it, because F didn't want to be in Miller's position of thinking it was weird that we had a daughter when we were convinced we were having a son.
I never get the "life's one actual surprise" argument. First, I have found a lot of life surprising and in this case it's a 50-50 shot so not so shocking whatever it is. More, it's a surprise whenever you hear the info. It's just a question of when you get the surprise.
I'd be interested in waiting, but only to avoid getting all blue and (especially) pink stuff. Gender neutral is good--and reusable. However, like November, if the info is available, I doubt I could resist having it.
I just knew Ethan was a girl. 100% certainty.
It was a surprise and just as happy for us to find out at the US (not that I am in any way knocking anyone that wanted to wait). I'm just a planner. I like my ducks in a row and my i's dotted and my t's crossed. I just had to know. It would have stressed me out not to.
It's weird because I really really wanted a girl, but as soon as I found out it was a boy I so did not care anymore. And now, if we have a second one, I kind of want another boy.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Seriously. Katelynn's big blue eyes all "*plink* *plink*" through her her little pink glasses are murdering me dead. So. Sweet.
it's really because I just like to torture Calie.
actually, it's mostly because I am using these 9+ months to kind of "dream" about my baby. I didn't want to have the baby's name, style, etc. all picked out before it's born. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, and I can totally see why people find out ahead of time, but for me I knew this way was right.
and I want H to know first and tell me because I am having all the fun of carrying him/her. we both prefer more neutral styles anyway, so buying stuffs and doing the nursery hasn't been hard at all. Plus this is our first out of 2 or 3 so it will be nice and easy to reuse all the baby crap.
ETA: babies in glasses kill me every time.
I am thissing all over the place. Except the reusable part, I am pretty sure I am only having one. Kev really doesn't want to know the sex, and I am ok with it.
He is positive it's a girl. I have no feelings either way. A girl would be nice because we don't have to have the junior argument.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
The life's few surprises thing. i just think for me it relates to the fact that it is because of technology that we can now know and it wasn't always that way. People had to wait until birth. i just like that concept.
This is well put. Technology has come so far we can literally see what the faces of our kids will look like while they're still cooking. It's really cool but really kinda creepy too. Delayed gratification maybe?