OP, are you in agreement with what you shared? Or against it? I think doing a gender reveal announcement (like cute balloon pictures) are ok, but to have a separate party surrounding the reveal is kinda pretentious, IMO. A name reveal even more so. Hello, it's called giving birth and saying "Macie Amelia arrived at 7:05 this morning!" Or putting your birth announcement in your local paper. That's ok, too.
Jews hold a naming ceremony that holds a lot of spiritual significance 8 days after the birth (in conjunction with the bris if it's a boy), and I'm fine with "reveals" of name and/or sex at the baby shower/sprinkle/whatever even if I do think they're hokey, but a separate event during the pregnancy, the sole purpose of which is to announce the name you have chosen is just weird sans religious significance.
Beevol also traditionally jews don't have baby showers or buy much stuff in preparation for the baby because of superstitions, so the naming ceromony/bris can take the place of pre-birth partys instead of adding yet another AW moment
We had a gender reveal party that served as our baby shower... We hoped that doing it this way people would be less likely to buy us clothes and more likely to buy us things we actually needed for baby, which we were right. And it was fun.
We had a gender reveal party that served as our baby shower... We hoped that doing it this way people would be less likely to buy us clothes and more likely to buy us things we actually needed for baby, which we were right. And it was fun.
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