My husband and I set up our 20 weeks scan for April 8th. I didn't get the option to have the NT scan done, so I haven't seen my baby in what feels like forever..and the next 5 weeks will go by so slowly, but I'm so excited to see my baby bear and make sure everything checks out good with him/her.
My husband and I are going all out this pregnancy. We take the weekly photos, and do the chalk board updates. We keep a journal, and write letters, and all that good stuff. Anyways, we want to do a gender reveal party, but there are so many cute ideas.
Have any of you guys done one? If so, what did you do, and what did you like about it, dislike/or wish you could've done differently?
Re: Gender reveals?
You're not going to get many positive responses.
I had a small reveal with just us, my mom, my brother and our 3 kids. We did a cake cutting. We absolutely loved it. It was so much fun for us and our children. Our pictures and video are priceless! Kids are not allowed at ultrasounds so it was fantastic to have them apart of it this time (they didn't get to last time).
We have a St. Patrick's Day party every year and we are going to do the gender reveal during our party. I am going to let my niece open a box and let either pink/blue balloons come out. I saw the idea on Pinterest, too.
I agree that the people that care the most are your immediate family, but these parties are very popular in New Orleans. Maybe that's because we like to party in this town! Have fun with yours!
Married DH 9/30/2011 - TTC #1 since 11/2012
BFP 5/30/2013 EDD 2/8/2014 M/C blighted ovum 7/5/2013 8 weeks 3 days
BFP 11/16/2013 Beautiful, perfect heartbeat 12/9/2013 EDD 7/31/2014 Please be our rainbow baby!
We had made our TTC journey public. For me, the party was a way to celebrate the good A/S, get our families together, and have a little fun. Was it a little AWish? Probably. But we had a blast and I know our family did too.
Birthday parties, showers, and bachelorette parties, when done properly, are thrown by somebody else as a gift. If someone were to throw one of the above parties for themselves, yes I think it would scream "look at me!" and I would side-eye it just like a gender reveal.
I think trying to compare a wedding to a party where the sole purpose is to announce wether your kid has a penis or vagina is a stretch.
So because you find my comment irrelevant and rude, I should change how I answer posts? Um, no. I'm sorry if you can't handle honesty, but that's you're problem, not mine. If you're going to get the butthurts every time someone doesn't agree with you on the internet, you should probably find another activity.
You never answer the question. My question was who has done the reveal parties, what they did, and what they liked and disliked about what they did. I didn't ask what your opinion on a gender reveal party was..so yeah, it was pretty irrelevant. Just like your "I'm sorry if you can't handle honesty" comment. Honesty is fine, if you're actually answering my question.
I'm sorry you if you can't read, but that's your problem, not mine.
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It's a public message board. People can respond how they please. Just because you didn't ask opinions specifically from people who don't like gender reveals doesn't mean they can't give their opinion.
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We did balloons for pictures. I went all out decorating the box. It took me several days to complete. I was a bit irritated when it decided to rain. Haha!
__________________________________________Offended? No. Do I find it incredibly narrow-minded to expect that because you have a boy or a girl they'll fit into certain gender-specific sterotypes? Yes. Boys may not like fishing, or football, or whatever other idea people come up with, and girls may not be the pretty pretty princess girly-girl that people use for these parties.
Yeah and? I'm sure because she is having a themed party she is going to force her child to fit that theme for the rest of it's life. Give me a break.
OP, if I am being completely honest, the idea of coming to a party (any party) and being forced to play games for two hours sounds awful. When I go to a party, I want to sit back, relax, have some good food and mingle a bit. I don't want to play word games, guessing games, relay races, trivia and I for sure don't want to pin the tail on anything. That's actually the part of your plan that I find most offensive.
Yes, I know that nosy neighbor of yours keeps asking if you know the sex, and last week Johnny the librarian asked if your H was able to "put the stem on the apple" (or some other equally charming rural colliquisim). People are trying to make conversation with you. When someone asks how you are doing-- you say fine. That's what they want you to say. They don't want to hear that you are sad 'cuz your cat ran away and they discontinued your favorite shade of lipstick.
This is the same thing. They say--" what are you having" and you say boy (or girl) and they say "how nice". That's how polite conversations go.
I don't generally think sex revel parties are great ideas, but I can see in some cases where a family might be extra excited for a new baby (maybe the couple had issues conceiving, or there hasn't been a new baby in a while, or you're having quadruplets-- whatever.)
In those cases, I think there's nothing wrong with inviting your nearest and dearest (truly your dearest- not the grocery clerk, not the town sheriff) and do a balloon release or a cake cutting or whatever cute thing you want to do.
Then serve your guests good food, pass around drinks, talk about baby names and send your guests on their merry way.
Whew. That got long. Take it FWIW OP.
BFP 1- EDD 2/09/11 Missed MC DX @11 weeks D&C- 7/25/10 BFP 2- EDD 12/22/11 Natural MC @ 5w 2d BFP 3- EDD 1/25/12 DD Josephine born 1/16/12
An entire town showed up for your wedding?
BFP 1- EDD 2/09/11 Missed MC DX @11 weeks D&C- 7/25/10 BFP 2- EDD 12/22/11 Natural MC @ 5w 2d BFP 3- EDD 1/25/12 DD Josephine born 1/16/12