Finding out the gender

[TORino]

Well done for the restraint!!

Did you get good pictures? My pictures from yesterday's scan were so disappointing

 

[ts2573]

Carnat we had everything in blue. Called my mum to say she was a girl and her friend sent over a stack of girl clothes.

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[Wednesday]

Well done for the restraint!!

Did you get good pictures? My pictures from yesterday's scan were so disappointing

Oh no way, how come??

I've postedthem in the Feb thread - they weren't amazimg like 12 week ones but not bad x

 

[April4415]

I don't really believe 'being organised' means you have to find out the sex. Im THE most organised person in the world when I'm excited about something (I'd pretty much planned my whole wedding in about 3 months) and we still went for the surprise. We have lots of clothes, nursery decorated, furniture up, pram built etc, all with no pink or blue! Xx

 

[JoeyClare]

We didn't find out with our first. Hubby has very boy-heavy family, so we assumed boy. I really wanted a girl and I think I was a little worried that I'd be disappointed if it was a boy at the 20 week scan, but knew I wouldn't mind either way once baby was here. We did have a few later scans to check growth and placenta and did once think we saw open legs with nothing there, but still didn't know for definite as I'm not trained and know you can only tell from certain angles. It was lovely finding out we had a little girl when she arrived.

This time we found our because I genuinely didn't mind. I'd have been happy with 2 girls or happy to have one of each. I quite liked the idea of being able to get stuff sorted and I've been buying clothes in the sale from 0-3 up to 12-18 for our little boy. It was amazing finding out at the scan and it's been quite nice to experience it both ways.

 

[CARNAT22]

I don't really believe 'being organised' means you have to find out the sex. Im THE most organised person in the world when I'm excited about something (I'd pretty much planned my whole wedding in about 3 months) and we still went for the surprise. We have lots of clothes, nursery decorated, furniture up, pram built etc, all with no pink or blue! Xx

Completely agree, number one was a surprise and we went for black pram and everything else was neutral.

Although we did buy a shedload of stuff when he arrived as we'd not gone mad with the neutral stuff.

I am not a massive pink fan for girls but I do find the neutral stuff quite limited (and boring? I wonder if there isn't a huge market for the it these days as 'most' people must find out??).

My old bedroom at my folks is filled to the brim of all mine and my sister and SIL baby clothes - we have 10 kids between us - so I'd rather dig through all the clothes before baby is born? Plus I need to break it to my kids which one of them will be sharing a room. Both kids have a preference as well (not the same sex) so I want to manage expectations and get them all prepared....

Biggest issue will be name. I literally do not like a single name? So finding out the sex halves the issue

I've done it both ways and whilst the feeling of finding out immediately after birth is one of the best things ever, knowing the sex already doesn't detract from how amazing it is meeting your baby for the first time.

My surprise was bloody amazing - although I was convinced in my bones he was a boy from early on - but my 'sex known' did allow me to be completely orgsnised. I didn't have to buy or wash a thing for weeks after she arrived.

X

 

[vic30]

I don't really believe 'being organised' means you have to find out the sex. Im THE most organised person in the world when I'm excited about something (I'd pretty much planned my whole wedding in about 3 months) and we still went for the surprise. We have lots of clothes, nursery decorated, furniture up, pram built etc, all with no pink or blue! Xx

I totally agree for the first. This was my argument to people when they said we weren't prepared. The baby had clothes and a room waiting for them, along with everything else they needed. This time we wanted to know as we have all her clothes and a tiny house! It's nice to be able to declutter knowing it's a boy.

Having said that...reading the comment above haha! I'm not sure how you can mistake boy to girl but clearly you can! X

 

[xSebbiesMumx]

I'm finding out at 16 weeks! I think I'm just the really organised sort so like everything in motion sort of thing, colour schemes, furniture etc! I must drive my OH barmy

I'm actually terrible I have a massive preference for a girl as I already have a boy, yes..a healthy baby is grand but it's an added bonus when you get the fender you want, I feel really crap saying that! But I think id be gutted if #2 turns into another boy :/..and I think girls have way nicer clothes than boys do thesedays! And having the youngest granddaughter is also playing on my mind too :/

 

[Crinkles90]

I wanted to keep the gender a surprise.. hubby was 50/50 on the idea but our little ones really wanted to know. As with carnat they have their preference and not the same sex..


We decided that as this baby is our last and the kids really want to find out that we would give them a gender reveal and make a big fuss about it.. as myblittle ones are aged 6,5,4 this is he first pregnancy that any of them get to really enjoy/remember. I have my scan in two weeks and will be taking the tribe along with me... I'm gonna ask the sonographer to write the gender in a card and il give the card to my sister.. cupcake gender reveal will be done the next day. All three are really excited and have a little wager between them! Whoever guesses right gets to choose the games we play that day!

 

[Selphie]

We will be finding out as we need to plan on room sharing/ moving etc. We already have a girl and we are in a two bedroom house which is small, so we need to know if we are staying or moving, depending on gender