Sex Announcement

britvahok

Post the sex of your baby here and a story about the sex reveal (if you had one)!!

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britvahok

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Vamason89

Yay! Thank you!!

We're having a boy! We went to an ultrasound clinic and paid to find out at 13 weeks because I have no patience for surprises lol our daughter and son will be 18 months apart. (Prayers, please! lol)

NatSprat0703

We are having a girl!!! We found out Monday. We did some NIPT testing at 10 weeks.
Doctor called and told me all was negative and she had the gender. I left work and went straight to her office to pick up the sealed envelope! We wanted to do something that night, just us. I called some bakeries and they said we couldn't get a cake same day. So I brought the envelope to a party store. They put 6 little colored balloons inside a big black balloon. When we got home, we popped it and little pink balloons went flying around!!! 

imwithbaby

@NatSprat0703 what a CUTE idea for the two of you! Totally might steal that!

middy411

@Vamason89 congratulations! I also have a daughter who will be 17 months when this baby is born. Are you a Feb '16 mama? DD was born Feb 28. I really think this baby is a boy but I am waiting til 16 weeks to do the elective ultrasound! Can't wait!

rugbybaby-2

We did the DNA blood test at 10 weeks and two weeks later we got the call that all is well with our baby GIRL! We have two boys already so this was the best news ever! Still have to pinch myself. Already started shopping too... heaven help me!

knottie0d8cc4d43bacc09f

We found out we're having a baby girl last week.. so excited! I can't wait to see DH wrapped around this little girl's finger..he has no idea what he's in for. Our doctor's office mailed us an envelope with the sex inside. They had a cute image with a scratch-off. We were frantically searching around the house for a coin and then started scratching and saw those pink letters! It was so fun to share that moment together.. felt like we won the lottery

pbandjyummies

@secicc12 wow that's incredible cute of your doctor's office to do and what a great idea!

chayamosko

This is so exciting! I won't find out till my 20 week US but it's so exciting to hear everyone else's! I want a girl so badly so my DS can have a little sister that seems to be the trend here so far! 

DoulaTog13

Vamason89 said:

Yay! Thank you!!

We're having a boy! We went to an ultrasound clinic and paid to find out at 13 weeks because I have no patience for surprises lol our daughter and son will be 18 months apart. (Prayers, please! lol)

I'm actually surprised they did this.  At 13weeks all genitilia is external.   I wouldn't go buying a bunch of blue stuff just yet. 

mkayslurp

We are having a boy!! We are going to do a reveal with our kids/grandparents tomorrow night.   I got a bunch of blue silly string and we are going to have our kids close their eyes, then spray them down.   My poor daughter is going to be a little disappointed but my son is going to be soooo excited.  Can't wait to see their reaction.

Nxy

@DoulaTog13 right! Our Dr said he'd give us a guess at 13 weeks for fun if he could see but not to go out and buy anything yet. 
I've never been so this is a real non snarky question. Don't most of the ultrasound places make you wait until 16 weeks?

taylormarie923

A lot of the places around here do them as early as 14 weeks, but I had to wait until 16 with my son. Definitely wait to paint your nursery! 

middy411

@Nxy All the elective ultrasound places around here make you wait til at least 15 weeks. I have also heard it can be wrong if seen on ultrasound before then and usually the error is guessed boy since, as PP said, it's external before that point.

JWatt5

@Nxy - I have to wait until my anatomy scan at 19 weeks - and then the techs cant tell you, you have to wait until your next appointment

Nxy

@JWatt5 I had to wait until 21 weeks for DD. There really wasn't anywhere that did elective ultrasounds where we were so I have no idea what to protocol is normally. I guess I just assumed it was after 16 weeks most places.
Here though the dr said he'd guess if he had a good view but we won't know for sure until 16-20 weeks which is fine because I'm still really pulling for team green. BUT all these ladies who already know are really testing my resolve!

smallbutmighty77

I just got the call...since I did a horrible job at telling DH we were expecting, I wanted to do something fun to reveal gender. I got little twinkle lights in both colors and ribbon that says little girl and little boy. Tonight while he walks the dog, I'm going to decorate the empty nursery with the lights and tie the ribbon around my stomach, so when he comes in it will reveal what we are expecting. I'm really excited. Will update tonight what color I went with!! Since we haven't officially announced we are expecting, we will reveal the gender to everyone at the same time.

Mango517

I'm so jealous people know already! I feel like knowing would help me connect more with the pregnancy...
If we don't end up getting the NIPT test done then I'm going to wait until the 20 week u/s. I don't want to hear one thing only to find out it's the other later on down the road.

Everything I've read said that early U/S guesses aren't entirely accurate. My nephew was a "75% chance he's a girl" at the 12-week ultrasound. He's all boy.

Vamason89

@DoulaTog13 Thanks for your input. 

@middy411 I'm a Jan '16 momma. Our daughter just turned 1 a few days ago. It's crazy!

knottie0d8cc4d43bacc09f

@smallbutmighty77 That is SO sweet! Such a great idea- take some pics and let us know how it goes.

morgy_bee

I'm so impatient that we have a private gender ultrasound scheduled in two weeks! This is one of my favorite parts! (No pun intended!) 

we did the 15 week U/S with my daughter and it was clear she was a girl!  I'm so excited! 

taylormarie923

I asked a magic 8 ball while shopping at target tonight. It said the answer wasn't clear yet. 

rachelfozo

I did the MaterniT21 testing.  Got the call this week that the tests were all negative, and we are having a BOY!!!  We have two girls so we are over the moon excited! 

morgy_bee

taylormarie923 said:

I asked a magic 8 ball while shopping at target tonight. It said the answer wasn't clear yet. 

Trusty old 8 ball is so wise

mborn24

I could have found out today through our M21 testing, but we agreed to have them send it in an envelope and open it at dinner. I hope the envelope comes in the mail tomorrow. It was so hard to not have them tell me on the phone!!!!!

asfiore

I'm so cofused bc we did NIPT but they didn't say anything about gender, just told us our genetic screening results. Which were negative. Yay! We were so happy about that, I didn't even think to ask about gender.

smallbutmighty77

It's hard to see in.the photo but I spelled out girl with the pink lights...then called him in to help me with something. He was really surprised and happy...so much more real. DH kept repeating 'daughter' for like an hour. 

BabyFeld

@smallbutmighty77 - legit choked up here.. beautiful idea!

I was team green turned pink last time around.. it was nice at birth but the curiosity beforehand near killed me! You ladies are definitely swaying me to find out this time... not gonna be for a while tho, I'm 11w1d and probably wont know till 20weeks.. but it seems like so much fun to find out!

mborn24

We are having a BOY.  I am still shocked because I thought sure it was a girl. We had the results of our M21 tests put in an envelope and opened them
at dinner. My husband was so surprised. 

We already have a son, so just a few new things for a nursery and diapers, we'll be set! 

a2003tiger

BOY! Found out with a blood test. 

anokoch

a2003tiger said:

BOY! Found out with a blood test. 

That is just too cute!!! 

I'm team green for my first pregnancy and you guys are making it sooo hard!

Lindstothee

I don't get to find out until March, i'm so impatient! 

szwill86

@anokoch me too! I'm team green but am having that internal Kermit meme struggle while filling out my Panorama NIPT paperwork with checking the "find out the sex/do not find out the sex" box!

DeansGirl14

TEAM PINK!!!!!

I'm not gonna lie, I was hoping to get to shop for adorable clothes and ruffle-butt diaper covers and tights. 

Just got the call this morning about the M21 results. Everything was negative (thank God) and they found no Y chromosomes. 

As far as announcements, I called DH at work and just sent the family and e-mail and shot some texts off to my closest friends. Everybody can't wait to shop and one of my sorority sisters texted that we have a little ADeePi legacy coming. I love it. 

middy411

Someone should make this into a poll so we can keep track of boys/girls/twins/team greens. It's fun to see how things equal out

britvahok

@middy411 I think that's why we have sex on the August spreadsheet so we can keep track of everything. But that's a great reminder to update the spreadsheet if you already know boy or girl!

smallbutmighty77

We announced to my parents by giving them a gift from Sprout. Sprout is our baby nickname. My sister has a 6yr old daughter so they are Super excited for another girl in the family. Yay hand me downs!! 

aeholden-2

@smallbutmighty77 that was our nickname before we found out we were having a girl last time ... this time it has been speck bc m husband kept touching my stomach and I told him to back off bc the baby is only the size of a speck lol

middy411

@britvahok I'm not sure I'll ever see this spreadsheet as I only use the mobile app. We had something like this for Feb '16. 
I checked it constantly to see how it changed even after people were giving birth. Nice to have something you can just see on the app itself.

dallasmommy-2

@middy411 love that!