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yes, I want to know and I am impatient! Plus i think having a baby is exciting enough that way you can spread out the surprises and happy moments!
My willpower isn't strong enough not to. We'll definitely find out ahead of time.
Definitely with my first. MAYBE I'd have the willpower to wait for the surprise w/ my second. Maybe.
i'm a planner, i already have different rooms plan if it's a boy or girl. plus, my favorite color is pink so if i had to do neutral and then had a girl, i'd be very sad.
No one in my family has ever found our the sex before the baby was born, so I think that I would want to be surprised too. But I just asked my fiance this question yesterday and he said he would want to know. So I might be able to be convinced to break with tradition. It just seems so much more exciting to have it be a surprise!
Originally I did not want to know but DH does. SOOO we are going to find out but we aren't going to tell anyone until right before the baby is due. That way we don't get all pink or blue stuff.
I considered not finding out...until I went and looked at the clothing options. There was just so little available in the gender neutral colors and I couldn't handle waiting till after the baby was born to buy all that stuff. I'm just too much of a planner! Plus everything was yellow which is just not one of my favorite colors either.
I'm pretty sure we would find out. Why wait? It's still a surprise when you find out, you just find out earlier.
My sister didn't find out with either of her two. Her first she was sure was a boy so bought all blue and it paid off, she had a boy. Second she was sure would be a girl, she called the baby a she and bought all pink clothes and only picked out girl names.....and then had a boy. Opps. I dont know why she never found out considering she had her mind so made up each time.
My Dad told me to never find out, he said it was like spolining christmas. BUT I found out with each pregnancy and I am so glad I did!! It allowed me to have things planned ahead of time. i don't regret finding out one bit!!
When I was pregnant with Moose, we never wanted to know. It was so much fun because he thought we were having a girl and I a boy.
I miss you Moosey.
Both my hubby and I want to be surprised. I think we are in the minority. :) I want to hear the doctor say, "It's a boy/girl" I think it'll be more exciting to be surprised. I don't mind doing the nursery in neutral colors, because if we have a second baby afterwards of the other gender, we wouldn't spend the money to redo it anyway. (Meaning I'm not going to do a pink nursery, then change to blue for example)...I love greens and yellows. :)
I'm just glad my hubby and I both are in agreement in waiting to be surprised. He's from India and you aren't allowed to find out the gender in advance anyway-due to the baby girl thing-similar to China..it's very sad...but my point is that Indians are used to the gender surprises and I'm glad he wants this too since I've always wanted to be surprised!
@Jenn23: Totally agree with you. I don't want to find out the sex of any of my future babies - I feel like there are too few good surprises in life as it is, why spoil this one? I have no problems doing a nursery in a grass green/chocolate brown, and then adding touches of pink or blue when the baby comes!
Although I'm so curious to find out, in the end I decided to go for the surprise. My husband left it up to me, but pointed out that they can make mistakes telling you the sex ... not usually, but they can. I really didn't want to be all psyched one way and then have to adjust my thinking right after giving birth. I think I'll be feeling wacky enough right then! This way is more exciting, I think.
In terms of decorating the nursery and stuff ... well, the baby is going to be in our room for probably half a year, anyway, so it's not a huge priority right now.
Need to know so we can plan the nursery decor accordingly and pick out a name!!
Yes Yes Yes I would totally find out! Theres no way I would be able to wait. My SIL is pregnant and I cant wait for HER to find out :)
I had a hard time adjusting to being pregnant, so finding out the sex really helped me to bond with the baby! I really respect the ability to wait, but I couldn't do it, especially in light of the fact that we had chromosomes done... so the information was already there! We found out at 13 weeks.
@Miss Snowflake Your nursery color plan sounds beautiful! I LOVE mint green and pale yellow so I'll probably do something with those. However, we are huge, huge ocean and seashore lovers so we may do an ocean-themed nursery. :) I know it will be hard in a way not to know, but at the same time, I think it'll be the best surprise!
I would want to know as soon as I could. I'm terrible with surprises!
I think we would also find out... I'm also one of those people who is terrible with surprises, so I don't know if I could hold out for 9+ months!! Plus, I want to be able to refer to him or her instead of "the baby" or something along those lines.
Neither FI or I want to know ahead of time. We both want to be suprised, and to be honest I really like the more gender neutral clothing and decor. Plus then everything is able to be used for the next child or children. And I think it'll be fun to have everyone guessing.
I second what Mrs DG said also...I'm so glad I found out because in my head I just always knew I would have a girl. We have all girls in my family and it just seemed natural to me that I would have one also. I am so glad that I found out I am having a boy because I have bonded more with the idea of a boy and how different that is from what I expected.
I originally didn't want to find out. I thought I could go with a surprise for the first one and find out for the second (just to know if we can use all hand-me-downs or not). The husband wanted to find out. Now that we're actually pregnant, both of our stances have swapped. Sigh... There's a chance we could find out in 2 weeks but I think we're still on the fence.
We will be finding out the sex for sure! I don't want to have to dress the baby in yellow or green!
We will definitely find out the sex! Just mainly because I would be way too curious and wouldn't be patient enough lol I know someone who is about to have theirs and chose not to find out - they decorated everything in a gender neutral sort of way and it all turned out wonderfully.
I've always wanted a surprise and hubby was adament about finding out. We have a sealed enevelope from our 21 week ultrasound that tells us what it is. I was going to let him open it around 30 or so weeks. I figured that was somewhat fair - but he had to keep it a secret and 'noone' knew he was going to find out. I'm now 36 weeks and he kinda got over his wanting to know. I think he's excited about the surprise now too!
I can't wait for the anticipation in the delivery room :) We're pretty convinced it's a boy though - and will be quite shocked if this little one turns out to be a girl :)
Only 4 more weeks til we find out hopefully!!!!!
By the way - not finding out has saved us SO MUCH MONEY! I know I'd be tempted to buy a LOT more stuff if I knew. But like people say there just isn't very much gender neutral - so we've only bought the basic baby supplies.
@jilian- I NEVER even thought about it from a saving money standpoint!!! Great point. We're planning on not finding out when the time comes, but we'll see if either of us can hold out... I'm dying right now because it's too early to test to even see if if I am pregnant, so I'm curious to see how well I can hold out when the time comes...
I'd definitely find out beforehand. If nothing else I like to be prepared!
FI and I found out. We figured that so many surprises come along with having a baby for the first time, the least we can do is be prepared for the sex.
But baby number 2 we definitely want to wait. We have a ton of left over baby stuff from our first born which is mostly pretty gender neutral, that even if a baby girl comes out, she can wear most of the baby clothes that our first born wore.
A super-cute idea for those of you who do want to find out: my FBIL and his wife brought a gift box and a little pair of baby booties in both blue and pink to their ultrasound. They had the tech look to see the sex and slip the corresponding booties into the gift box. They took it home, wrapped it up, and saved it for a month until Christmas. It was the first gift they opened on Christmas morning, and was by far their favourite present under the tree! So cute!
We don't want to know, I am even thinking if we do have babies, then we will wait to have the baby shower until after the baby is born so we can celebrate the baby being here already!
Like a lot of you, I don't think we'll be able to stand the wait! Also, I know it is kind of awful, but I am not so into the gender neutral styles, and I have a feeling I'd end up spending more because if we had a room full of yellow, I'd have to go out and buy some pink or blue :/
I would want to, just so I could plan accordingly. plus the anticipation would kill me
I LIKE surprises, so the more the merrier! Additionally, I like green (favorite color), orange/peach, & yellow...I tend to gravitate more to these colors anyway, when I'm shopping for someone else's baby, even when I know the sex. Finally, from a different money-saving point of view, getting a bunch of gender neutral stuff will make it easier for hand-me-downs to (God-willing) baby #2.
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Will you find out the sex of your baby ahead of time? Why or why not?