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May 2012 Moms
Team Green!
With everyone talking about when they're going to have their gender revealing scans/parties, I was curious to see how many other women on here are going to keep it a secret and not find out.
This is my first baby, and I whole heartedly don't want to find out the gender before birth. A lot of people who I hear about doing this are already on their third baby, and already have one of each.
Anyone else in the same boat as me, or not wanting to find out at all? It's going to be hard to not give in, especially when everyone else will be posting what their's are!
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Re: Team Green!
Due Date May 13!
We were Team Green with DS and it was amazing. When he was born, I was in love with him, and I had not yet known if he was boy or girl. It was a few minutes later that we checked. I recall to this day hearing DH telling me "It's a BOY!"
I didn't need to know the gender to bond more with the baby. I felt it, talked to it, I loved it. We are trying to decide if we want to find out or stay Team Green again.
I will say it was a great experience to learn boy or girl right after birth.
I'm with ya!! Team Green the whole way. I am surprised how many people are upset by this, people I don't really know and who it doesn't really effect. My DH is dealing with it, not 100% on board with the idea, but as he says he's just along for the ride. My family doesn't care whether we find out or not; his family is not thrilled with the idea. Ohhh well!!!
So many people suggest we wait and be surprised. At first, I thought I wanted to know, but now I am on the fence. I think I'd like it to be a surprise but DH wants to know. He gets a lot of anxiety when there are unknowns and I know the birth will be stressful enough for him. We are considering finding out but keeping it "our little secret." I have a few weeks to decide.
My brother and sil wanted to be surprised. Unfortunately, they had an u/s technician who insisted they "had to know. how can you not know?" They protested but the dopey tech left a very obvious still of the baby on the monitor when they left the room. There was no denying that it was a boy. That was just wrong. Shame on the technician for not respecting their wishes.
We'll be Team Green! We were with DS and it was awesome. There's something about hearing in the delivery room knowing for sure that it's a boy or a girl. The tech's can guess for you, and are right most of the time, but not always. I know of 3 people personally who were told one sex to find out the tech was wrong in the delivery room.
Plus, like pp said, it seems to drive everyone else nuts! I think it's fun to have people tell me what they think I'm having and why. Plus, it makes delivery that much more fun for everyone. We aren't sharing names either so they'll be totally in the dark. There really are very few true surprises left anymore, and as far as I'm concerned it's the best one. Team Green all the way!
Yes, we're team green, too. I'd be on the fence about it all but my SO is adamant about being Team Green.
For what it's worth, a good friend of mine wanted to find out the sex and got amnio results saying boy, they prepared for a boy, picked out a name for a boy, and she gave birth to a girl! The dr (who is at the top of her field) flubbed the a/s results and told them the wrong sex. So, sometimes you never know!
We're Team Green as well. We decided long ago to not find out for our first baby and to find out for any subsequent babies (we want 3). We just want the experience of not knowing like everyone else had to do not all that long ago!
Plus, I had the special moment of telling my husband that I'm pregnant.. this way he'll have his special moment of telling me what the baby is when I deliver
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Was team green with DS and it was so amazing. I will never forget when the Drs. in the OR room said its a boy they said it all at once and DH thought girl the whole time and stood up from next to me and had to see for himself.
We are going team green again with this baby. It is driving a lot of people crazy because they think since we were team green with DS we should find out this time.
We were Team Green with our first (a girl) and I loved it. With our second, I gave into my urges to know and we found out at the 20 week ultrasound. Afterwards, finding out it was a boy, I wish we would have waited and had that surprise at birth. So back to Team Green we are going for this one. Can't wait to have that surprise at the birth!
From someone who has done it both ways, I personally found it more exciting to find out at the birth instead of in the ultrasound room. Plus it was so much more fun watching everyone stew about it the whole 9 months and make their predictions!
Team green for me too. DH isn't quite on board with it, I think he just likes to know NOW instead of wait. And I'm normally like that, but I've always felt that if we had children, that I would want to wait until birth to know if its a boy or a girl.
So we're just looking @ gender neutral goods. I hate pink anyway, so if it is a girl, then we would buy a lot of yellows and maybe purple. Either way, we will be blessed.
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