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QOTD 1/15
I was on another site and ladies were talking about "gender reveal parties." Basically when you are pregnant and find out the sex of the baby, you have a party to let everyone know what you are having. It is not a shower.
Have you heard of these? Has anyone been to one? Are you planning to have one/did you have one? How are you planning on telling people the gender of your baby?
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Have you heard of these? Saw it on pinterest... and photographer blogs
Has anyone been to one? Not me
Are you planning to have one/did you have one? negative
How are you planning on telling people the gender of your baby? "Doctor said it's a *insertgenderhere*"
yeah, i've heard of it and i love the idea! i'd like to have one but i'm not sure if we will.
we want to know the gender of our baby and have that moment to ourselves. lathen we will probably do a reveal party if we have time to plan one. if not, we will probably tell our families in person and then post it on Facebook for our friends to see.
Have you heard of these? Yes, there are a bunch of posts on the bump about it
Has anyone been to one? Not me
Are you planning to have one/did you have one? no
How are you planning on telling people the gender of your baby? We will find out together sometime in February what the gender is, we will call our families and tell them, then probably post it on FB, we already announced over the weekend on FB we are expecting=)
I once saw a video of a gender reveal party gone wrong. The people decided to have their baker use food coloring in the center of the party cake to reveal the gender (blue for boy and red for girl because the baker said pink didn't always come out vibrant enough.) When the people cut into the cake it was purple inside. The crowd started cheering thinking the couple was having twins, a boy and a girl. Turns out, the baker messed up the order and placed the wrong reveal color in the cake. It was supposed to be red/pink.
I think it's silly to have a whole party just to reveal the gender of the baby. It seems gift-grabby to me. Maybe the cake thing would be a cute way (done correctly of course) to reveal at the shower or maybe with close friends and family.
If DH and I decide to have kids, I think I don't want to know the gender of the baby. There are so few good surprises in life and I think it might be nice to wait to know the gender.
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Have you heard of these? Yes
Has anyone been to one? No
Are you planning to have one/did you have one? No
How are you planning on telling people the gender of your baby? Probably calls to those that are family and FB for everyone else. No one will care as much as I would, so I don't see a need to make a big deal about it.
Have you heard of these? Yes.
Has anyone been to one? Nope.
Are you planning to have one/did you have one? Nope.
How are you planning on telling people the gender of your baby? After the baby is born we'll tell people. But we're not going to find out the sex when we are pregnant so it'd be hard to tell anyone before then!
I've heard of the parties too...
I think it's a bit excessive. I think it would be cute to reveal the sex of the baby in a fun way just for close family (like to our parents, siblings, etc), but I wouldn't go all out and plan a giant party to do it.
I also wouldn't reveal it at the shower, because as other people have said I would want to register for gender specific gifts.
I most definitely will want to know the sex of the baby! DH says he doesn't want to know and my MIL says that it's best to be surprised. But, since I would be the one knocked up I think that my preference trumps their opinion LOL! First, I don't see what's the difference being surprised at 20 weeks vs 40....it'll still be a huge surprise at 20 weeks! Second, I think it would help me to bond with the baby during pregnancy. I have absolutely no maternal instincts, and I think knowing the sex would definitely help me to develop that.
I've heard about them and even have made cakes for them...
As for ourselves we find out on Feb 4th what we are having (if jellybean is cooperating) Once we do find out I will probably make a cake to bring to the inlaws for supper that night and they will find out at dessert when we cut into it...
Then we will take a pic and share that as our reveal...
We want to find out... my son is praying for a boy... lol we'll see hun We'll see
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I've seen it on Pinterest and heard of them. My coworker was just telling me how much he is dreading going to one this weekend.
I don't think I would ever have one, but I do like the idea of a gender reveal between the couple. I could see us doing that....like going to a bakery, giving them the envelope to fill the inside of a cake/cupcake with pink or blue and eating it that night with my husband. I also saw some pictures of a college friend that did a gender reveal on Xmas morning with their two children. They had a friend fill a box with pink or blue balloons that the two kids could rip into. I love the idea, but just keeping it intimate. What is wrong with just telling people in passing the gender of your baby thereafter?! haha I absolutely want to know though.
I've heard of them, but have never been to a "gender revel party." No offense, but I also think it's dumb. Finding out the gender should be something private between you and your H, then with both parents. Anyone else really doesn't matter.
We do not want to know what we are having when we decide to have children. The anticipation during labor and delivery is so much more. I am a big planner and I don't think I need to plan what color my nursery would be.
I saw a video on Facebook from a girl I went to college with at her gender reveal party. They cut into the cake and started shrieking. All you heard was high pitched screams. Her H didn't seem into it at all. Most of the people around the person taking the video weren't even paying attention.
A friend of mine has her ILs close by, but her parents are about 6 hours away. They did the pink cake for dessert at her ILs the day they found out and as soon as they got home, she wrote the baby's name on her belly and Skyped her parents. When they answered the video chat, her belly was exposed with the name. I think that was cute, but anything more is excessive.
I've heard of them, never been to one. I don't think I'd actually want one, but I do think that there are cute ideas out there.
I think that lwoehlk had a good idea with where you can do one for just you and your H....that'd be neat. I agree that I want it to be more personal for just me and H. I definitely want to know the gender before the baby is born, though!! I think a family reveal party would be cute, too.