Team GREEN: Who's still holding strong?

emp156 · August 2014

I love reading all the team blue/pink announcements on here, but is anyone else still a happy little team greenie like me?

Is the anticipation killing you? Were you tempted to peek/ask at your AS?? Do you have names lined up for both? Any push back from fam/friends for not finding out?

- i'm surprised i'm not more curious at this point! i think the anticipation will mount as we get closer to delivery, but for now i'm happy enough mixing my pronouns and cooing over grey gender-neutral onesies, haha. i'm really happy that at the very least not knowing baby's sex puts a damper on going crazy for some baby items (that i prob don't need). we have a boy name and a girl name ready to go - shockingly this was about a 30second conversation and we immediately agreed on both. i haven't really had any issues w/ fam/friends wanting to know... although every.single.time. we talk to MIL, she says (at least twice) that we "shouldn't worry, I'm picking gender-neutral colors" for whatever she's planning on knitting for baby. haha, does it bother you not to know, MIL?

YAY TEAM GREEN!

LaxMOM44 · August 2014

Still team green.

My MW did tell me that the sex is in my file....I pray she doesn't leave me alone with it, I have no self control.

donovan1 · August 2014

Me too! I've spent enough on the nursery and am glad in that respect that I dk the gender lol.

colliebabe · August 2014

Team Green for life right here. We were TG with DD as well. I have no desire to know until the birth - at our a/s I was afraid the tech might slip up and accidentally tell us! I said "we don't want to know the sex" a couple of times.

mc0113 · August 2014

Still team green here! We had our A/S ultrasound last week and didn't find out and they don't tell my midwives anything. So there's no way for us to know until delivery now. I actually kinda love the anticipation it's making for the next 20 weeks to go by quickly!

emp156 · August 2014

@colliebabe - i was the same way! i must've said we didn't want to know about 10x.

@LAXmom44 - stay strong - you can do it

i think it's so weird that random techs (and my OB!) know the sex, but DH and i don't

BabyBabyHawkins · August 2014

Yay team green!! I love reading other people post what they are having but I am so excited that we are keeping it a surprise!!

emp156 · August 2014

@babybabyhawkins - same here! the entirety of our "birth plan" is hoping that DH can be the one who gets to tell me, "it's a boy/girl!" at delivery hahaha

BabyBabyHawkins · August 2014

@emp156‌ I never even thought about who would announce what it is. I bet my husband would love it if he could yell it out!!!

emp156 · August 2014

@babybabyhawkins - i'm not even sure this is an option, but i will certainly investigate. i mean, i don't see why he wouldn't be able to, right?

mele0301 · August 2014

Still team green for this FTM. Everybody is shocked when I tell them. My parents are old school and fully support us.

Kmm1023 · August 2014

We were going to find out but baby had other plans! We have a 30 week 3d but we decided to become team green!

erien · August 2014

Holding strong! We have our names picked out. The girl name is the same as last time. I think it's another boy so I was eager to settle on a boy's name, and we did just a couple weeks ago. It has been more difficult this time around staying team green. I'm not sure why. We are all set with a bunch of newborn gender neutral clothes and gear so no worries about planning for his/her arrival home.

I was so excited to find out the sex when my DS was born and it felt like an eternity for someone to announce it (can't even remember who did). He was born with the cord wrapped around his neck so they had to get it off before they flipped him over. Those seconds of anticipation were agonizing! Thankfully they immediately put him on my chest after freeing him and those extra few seconds of waiting were totally worth it. Ah, so amazing. So excited to do it all again in December!

esr9435 · August 2014

@emp156‌ same here...that, as well as planning a drug free birth, is the whole reason we're team green in the first place!!! I think about my husband announcing it and I get teary eyed haha damn hormones!

I'm not really the least bit curious! Ask me at 35 weeks and I'm sure I'll be singing a different time

It had also really been helpful in not buying every damn baby outfit out there. Gender neutral is hard to find!

taylojade57 · August 2014

I consider myself part-time team green. The tech wrote it down and the answer is sitting on top of my fridge. The only thing that is keeping me from looking is the fact that I want DH to know first... He needs to get home soon!! I swear time is going backwards!
I'm surprised at the backlash from people about not wanting to tell them. The most came from my friend that was team green with her DD!

sbevann26 · August 2014

Team green still here !! It's hard for me, and I really want to know... But we didn't even put the sex in the file, so there is no way of finding out.

I'm excited though. This means I know nothing about this little angel inside of me! Makes it all that more exciting when I get to meet her/him

emp156 · August 2014

@esr9435 - i'm seriously surprised i'm not more curious too. and you're right - gender neutral is a bit more difficult to find than i anticipated. luckily i have a team green friend who's due next week and plans to pass along a little of their stuff. anyhow, it's freezing here in the winter so i doubt we'll venture too much to show off cute outfits for a bit haha

@taylojade57 - WHOA - i can't believe you have it written and inside your house! i'm not curious at all, but i'm sure that would change if i knew it was lurking within reach

also, so weird that your team green friend gave you backlash!

@sbevann26 - it IS so exciting not knowing anything. and everyone i've talked to who was team green said it was SOOO worth it (even though it was tougher toward the end)

Shortstack06 · August 2014

I had no desire at the a/s to find out. Originally I wanted to and he didn't, i mentioned this to my family and it still bugs the shit out of my mom. So of course I love it that much more. It was very cool at the a/s just to watch the baby kick, wiggle, yawn, throw its arms around. I was in enough aww that I almost think finding out the sex might have over shadowed that. I do hate when I get asked "What are you having?!" And when I say we aren't finding out, the rude reactions I have gotten just stun me.

emp156 · August 2014

@shortstack06 - i hear ya, there's plenty of excitement regardless. i keep getting asked "what are you having" and my blanket response has been "a baby." i find this hilarious, for some reason. the asker usually just thinks i didn't understand the question haha.

BrainCellSup · August 2014

Still team green, too. Not feeling the urge to find out earlier, and really anxious to not find out accidentally. I won't look at the ultrasound results on the web portal through my doctor's office and like others blurted out awkwardly that we didn't want to find out the sex at the start of many appts.

Shortstack06 · August 2014

@emp156 my biggest peeve is that it is a random person asking like it is their business! My tech didn't even put in our file what the sex is, which is totally awesome so no accidentals.

kimba1976 · August 2014

We are team green! I honestly don't want to know until the birth. I absolutely had to know with my daughter, but this time I want to find out with my husband together on delivery day. It's driving the grandparents crazy, which makes the not knowing just a little bit better.

Cristin343 · August 2014

I love it! That is my birth plan too... Keep an open mind and pray that DH hasn't lost consciousness when it's time to announce, "IT'S A ___!!!"

gimmeyronionrings · August 2014

Still going strong! I was tempted to accidentally find out at our A/S, but that didn't happen, thank goodness. Now I have no urge at all to find out before baby's arrival. Our families are both supportive and just as excited to wait to find out, which is wonderful.

I have only had a couple weird comments from acquaintances/strangers about being team green. People are odd!

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saltsandwater · August 2014

Still team green, but I'm also still completely positive it's a girl. If it comes out and is a boy, my whole life will have been a lie. I don't actually have a preference, I'm just positive it's a girl and have been since I knew I was pregnant.

emp156 · August 2014

@saltsandwater - that's crazy! i have no inkling whatsoever at the moment. for a while i would picture our little family unit of 3 with a baby boy (for no reason or preference), but DH said he imagined a girl (so we have our bases covered!). that said, i had an INCREDIBLY vivid, intense dream about two weeks ago when i was holding an infant and we were just staring at each other. i woke up suddenly and woke my DH like, "uhh, i think i just saw our baby in my dream!" (it was a girl). who knows!

Cryssteen · August 2014

I'm still reluctantly team green. DH doesn't want to know. I do, but I figure it doesn't really matter at this point. I had the Harmony testing done at 12ish weeks.. which means, technically I could have known for 3 months... ugh. That's the hard part.

haleyusf · August 2014

Technically team green still, even though I'm pretty sure I saw the goods at the A/S. Tech was measuring the thigh bones and it was hard to miss. But, like I told SO, I have no training in reading u/s so I could be completely wrong about what I thought I saw. We have names picked out for either way and are content to wait until the birth to find out.

xc1148 · August 2014

@emp156 I love that idea!!! I am so stealing it! Is your husband catching the baby or will he just sneak a peek and then come tell you?

Still team green!! The only time I want to know is when I see super-cute baby clothes or bedding. A/S wasn't hard for me but it was hard for the hubby...he was so pouty lol. I am still amazed at how strongly people feel about this decision...some people are mad at me for not "planning" and others say "DONT LET ANYONE TELL YOU THE SEX ITS STUPID TO FIND OUT EARLY"...I personally love surprises but I really have never cared what someone else does with their baby.

the good thing for us is that at my hospital they don't write it down, so no one knows but one lady in radiology! they also write "GENDER SURPRISE" at the top of the file.

Saintelizabeth · August 2014

We are team green!! Our a/s was last week and before we started I told the tech we didn't want to know the sex of the baby so she didn't even skim over that area of the baby. No one knows, not even my OB! Everyone in my family thinks its a boy, but DH thinks its a girl. I honestly have no idea! Sometimes I imagine a boy and sometimes a girl. I think waiting to find out the sex of the baby makes the whole experience so much more exciting.

I get pissed when people think you can't get close to the baby without identifying the LO by its sex or its name. As if the fact that I'm conscious of weather the baby had a penis or a vagina will somehow make me emotionally closer to my unborn child.

emp156 · August 2014

@xc1148 - steal away! we haven't figured out logistics, lol, and we'll prob ask our OB. i do know that he def does not want to catch the baby and would prefer to stay at the "top end" of things. fair enough

@saintelizabeth - i agree w/ you on the bonding thing. i think it's a pretty irritating assumption. i feel like i'm bonding w/ baby just fine and doing so without developing any gender-based preconceived notions of who this person will be. i'm perfectly happy w/ a clean slate, in that regard, until baby makes his/her appearance in the world

ThePregosaurus · August 2014

**ETA: Sorry about the formatting. For some reason my mobile won't make new paragraphs! ** Still team green

. I found it a little tempting at the a/s bc I knew she was looking right at it! BUT my MW said that the tech doesn't tell them the sex so she's the only one who knows. I actually had 2 a/s bc baby was beig stubborn and they couldn't get the head shots they needed. I had 3 u/s at 2 diff offices to get all the pics in (I'm not complaining! Got to see my LO 3 times). Anyway, I was the pro-green team and had to convince DH but he's on board now. Everybody assumes you're going to find out so it's fun to tell them you're waiting. My parents are totally into it while DH's family has been pretty negative. My BIL actually said we were inconveniencing everyone bc they wouldn't know what to buy. Ummm.... Who knew onesies or diapers or blankets had to be blue or pink?? What an inconvenience! If anything, everyone will know exactly what to get us for Christmas! Lol... I've gotten the comments about people not feeling prepared without knowing. My response is usually that I'm not gonna be prepared for what a newborn has to throw at me anyway, so what does it matter what little organ they have? We are having a REALLY hard time with names though. DH is way pickier than I ever imagined lol.

neonsun0419 · August 2014

We're still team green! I'm a STM and was team green then too. I'm way more curious this time though. We've already had our anatomy scan so there is no more temptation!

perfectlove09 · August 2014

Still team green!!! Had our A/S yesterday. It was tempting but we didn't peak. Building up to the A/S was the hardest. I kinda feel like now that it's done and over with I'm not do wrapped up in it.

AZMagnini14 · August 2014

Still team green!

Not tempted. Nervous they'd slip at A/S.

We only have one more growth scan at 36 weeks so we should be fine.

Was team green with our first, so we don't know any different!

kapio2012 · August 2014

Still Team Green and super excited about it! Don't really have a huge desire to know. I don't think it is in my record either - the MD said he didn't know it either. I have another ultrasound in 2 weeks, so I will have to say immediately say we don't want to know. People have been very supportive and excited of Team Green

audraj06 · August 2014

Still team green here too! I love that so many people are waiting to find out. Most people are excited about it...except for some of my husband's coworkers. I find it very surprising actually...I didn't think some grown men would care so much that we don't know what baby is. We have lists of first names...and I think it'll be a last minute decision. But middle names are for sure (boy after my dad, girl after his mom).

Keep strong ladies!!!

MeganK81410 · August 2014

Still going strong here! I wasn't really tempted to peek at the A/S, but that was mostly because DH was stuck working a few hours away so he couldn't be there. I wouldn't have wanted to find out the sex without him, so it made not finding out a little easier! The tech did slip and say something like, "There's hi.. it's little arms!" after she did all of the lower body measurements, but I'm pretending I heard nothing. I could very likely have heard incorrectly anyway. I'm surprisingly not all that anxious to find out now! I know I'll probably really want to know as delivery comes closer, but right now I'm content not knowing. Having a daughter and son already, I'm not in "PLAN ALL THE THINGS!" mode. It's kind of nice being able to just sit back and enjoy this pregnancy!

We're also planning to have DH be the one to tell me boy or girl after delivery, so I keep holding on to the idea of that moment where I give that one last, final push and DH watches the baby be delivered, then comes to my shoulder and says "It's a _____!" We haven't worked out the exact details of how that part will work, but I'm already planning to be explicitly clear with the nurses and doctor that I don't want them to breathe a word until DH tells me. I know in the excitement of the moment, they may slip, so I'll just focus on DH and tune everyone else out

As far as names, we're stuck! I hate every name, and DH is very nonchalant about it. His "ideas" are Bob, Sherlock, and Leonidas, so he's no help! I have a few written down for each sex that I don't hate, and a middle name idea for a girl, but otherwise I'm wading through list after list of names I don't like. I have a feeling I'll just *know* when I see this little one's face, so I'm not focusing too hard on it.

I have had a few people look at me strange when I say we're not finding out, but for the most part people say things like "Good for you!" My grandma is the most disappointed and almost angry that we're not finding out.

And now I've written a novel, so I'll stop

AZMagnini14 · August 2014

@babybabyhawkins We did it that way too. My DH announced it was a boy. So much fun that way. Hope you can too!

lynseyadamson · August 2014

We are team green although OH is desperate to know! He was all pouty at AS scan when I said we didn't want to know! With DS I wanted to be team green but OH was dying to know. It's a long story but oh has had serious health problems and had a heart transplant 8 yrs ago. He nearly didn't make it and he certainly never expected to have children. I asked the sonographer to just fell him after I left the room. He was fab and kept it secret from me but I couldn't bear he knew and I didn't. At a later growth scan I asked the sonographer to tell me as OH wouldn't as he's promised to keep it quiet! I wished I'd never find out though so this time round I was adamant neither of us was going to find out! I'm desperate for the magical moment we find out at the birth. Saying that, I'm incredibly curious to know but I'm sticking with team green! I'm pretty convinced it's another boy though for some reason x

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