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1st Trimester
Finding out the Sex VS. Not
Just curious...
How many of you lovely ladies plan to find out the sex of your baby?
We didn't with DS and don't plan to with #2. Call us old fashioned but I LOVED not knowing til the very moment of birth.
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Re: Finding out the Sex VS. Not
We talked about this yesterday. FI wants to know and there is no moving him from that decision. He even told me that if I didn't want to know then he'll just ask the doctor when I'm not around to hear it.
I would like to know though. It's not for planning purposes or anything like that. I would just drive myself crazy not knowing.
I really DON'T want to, but DH is very insistant that he knows....I really think it would be the greatest moment to hear "It's a____"
He's winning the battle so far.
We wanted to know the gender of ours. But, lo and behold, baby wouldn't cooperate. So, we'll be finding out at birth.
Keep that in mind if you want to know... baby might have other plans.
DH won the battle w/ DD, and I think I've won it with this one. Both my family and his entire family asked this weekend and I said this one's a surprise. DH followed up with a couple of "I have no say in this" lines. Victory!
I feel like this is such a special surprise to have in life, so I want it at least once. I'm a suspense junkie
I am not a patient person so I will most definitely find out..as long as the peanut cooperates.
Plus being my first I know I will want to decorate the nursery.
We do. I can't imagine having the patience to wait until the birth.
I don't really get wanting to hear "It's a ____" in the delivery room. I imagine it will be just as exciting to hear it when you get an U/S.?
Love love loved finding out the sex at the birth of my first.
I'm finding it harder not to find out this time, just b/c I want to know if my first will have a brother or sister. It's just a bigger change to the dynamic of our family this time around, it seems. Ironically last time I fought DH and insisted we didn't find out, even though he wanted to. This time around it's the opposite, so we won't find out even though I think I'd like to!
TTC#1 Chart
TTC#2 Chart
IUI #1 - #4 (repronex trigger) = BFN
IUI#5 on 10/28/2008 ** BFP 11/10/08 ** EDD 07/21/09 *** It's a GIRL (07/14/09)
med/treatment free BFP 06/28/10. EDD 03/05/11 *** GIRL #2 (02/23/11)
beta#1 @ 17dpo = 1296 .... beta#2 @ 19dpo = 3034
it's the Bug and Baby Belle!
We are planning on finding out the sex of the baby at our 20 week ultra sound. I think I would have a very difficult time waiting and also want to be able to plan nursery, names, etc. I'm somewhat of a control/planning freak and don't think I could stand to wait 9 months!!!
DH wants to find out and he's slowing convincing me. It is a surprise whenever you find out, but I think we're going to have the tech put an ultrasound pic with the sex in an envelope for us to open later on at home.
Before I was pregnant I always thought I would want to wait to find out!
Me – 33 (no diagnosis), DH – 41 (MFI)
IVF #1/ICSI 2008 – 22 ER, 21 F, Day 3 transfer (8A and 8B) - BFP, 3 Frosties
Surprise BFP 2010
Surprise BFP 2011
Shipped frosties from TX to VA in 2012
FET #1 May 2013, single blast – BFN
FET #2 August 2013 2 blasts – BFN
IVF #2/ICSI/AH Jan 2014 – 8 ER, 7M, 6 F Day 3 transfer (grade 2 & 3), no frosties - BFP!
Malakai - 8.3.09
Ezra - 12.1.11 ASD
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
We did and are doing the same
DH and I want to find out!
I just have to laugh at all the "I am such a planner and NEED to know!" posts. I am the most anal, organized, list-maker, plan in advance person (planning was my job for 7 years) and not knowing the sex with DS did not make it difficult at all to decorate the room and get everything prepared.
DH wanted to know with DS so badly but I said absolutely not - my uterus, my decision. Oh and our OB told us that it never works when one knows and the other doesn't - they always let it slip.
The surprise in the delivery room is unlike anything. That being said, I gave DH the option this time if he wanted to find out. To my surprise, he admitted that I was right and then waiting until the birth was way better than he imagined. So we will again be surprised!
DS 3.12.08
DD 7.11.09
DD 8.01.13
With DD I was desperate to know, DH didn't want to: knocked up ball of hormones always wins. This time I didn't want to, DH did, but after we got the REAL surprise- twins- that's enough for me- we'll find out again.
I was glad to know with DD. During delivery, much to the annoyance of the OB, I was calling her name out as I pushed her out. WHen out she listened to me say her name and cried when I stopped- it was so special and wild.
Bronx Zoo: Summer 2013
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