After you find out the sex...

jewels1020 · October 2015

Anyone else already trying to come up with a cute way to reveal the babies sex after you find out? I know this is premature since we all have a little while till we know, but I thought it might be fun to bounce some ideas off of each other! I'm throwing the idea of somehow incorporating my dogs in the reveal but then I think something to do with Christmas since it will be around that time.. maybe both, but I'm unsure. I don't think we will have a party for it or anything since all of my family lives in other states no where close to me so a cute announcement picture would be best for me I think.

If you have any ideas that you'd like to share I'd love to hear them!

Edit- I might be jumping the gun way to early on this one but my excitement is getting the best of me!

kbrands7 · October 2015

With DS, 20 weeks hit just before Thanksgiving. We didn't do anything special really, we just announced it at Thanksgiving dinner (we hosted that year). With 20 weeks falling the week of Christmas for me, I imagine we'll do something similar for family.

This time I think that I do want to do some kind of cute picture announcement with DS for out of town relatives and friends on FB. I don't have any ideas yet, but I feel like something could be done with gifts and /or solid color Christmas lights. I'll probably be figuring this part out on my own (or with you guys!) as DH isn't too enthused about this kind of thing, but will smile for a picture if I ask him to.

saladflambe · October 2015

I have always always always planned to reveal via cake because I bake cakes for all occasions and everyone in my family loves my cakes. So, I'm hoping to do it around Christmas with a cake.

asunna · October 2015

we've decided to be open about the sex but not tell anyone the name of the child until born and named .

laurenmdrn16 · October 2015

We were going to do gifts for my son (a shirt that says "Big Brother") and a onesie for baby saying either "Little Brother" or "Little Sister" to announce since we open gifts with the whole family Christmas morning.

lalala2004 · October 2015

We have a fortune cookie maker, so I thought it'd be fun to put the message in cookies and give them to our family and friends

kbrands7 · October 2015

asunna said:
we've decided to be open about the sex but not tell anyone the name of the child until born and named .

We did this with DS and plan to do it again. My sister was super pushy about wanting to know the name last time; hopefully she knows the drill now. We didn't want a bunch of stuff with his name all over it and we didn't want people's opinions about names. My family is full of Googlers so even if they like the name, had we announced it earlier, they would have been bringing up alternatives "just for fun."

asunna · October 2015

kbrands7 said:

we've decided to be open about the sex but not tell anyone the name of the child until born and named .

We did this with DS and plan to do it again. My sister was super pushy about wanting to know the name last time; hopefully she knows the drill now. We didn't want a bunch of stuff with his name all over it and we didn't want people's opinions about names. My family is full of Googlers so even if they like the name, had we announced it earlier, they would have been bringing up alternatives "just for fun."

yup hubby does not and refuses to hear peoples opinions on the name weve chosen,
i say okie dokie seems neato

jewels1020 · October 2015

Oh I like the ALL of those ideas and I agree with not revealing the name of baby till its born! Less conflict is always better!! You all are so creative! I'm glad I have you all so we can all figure this out together!

(: I have a feeling I'll be coming up with the idea and hubby will go along with whatever I choose to keep me happy (he's doing so well with me being pregnant however I think he doesn't want to upset the hormones haha) leaning towards dressing our two big dogs one in a pink shirt (she's a girl) the other in blue (he's a boy) and then dressing the mini pin In something that says we're welcoming a new baby blank on it in the middle? Still trying to figure it out I'm sure that will be completely opposite of how we decide though lol.

TheThornBird · October 2015

kbrands7 said:
With DS, 20 weeks hit just before Thanksgiving. We didn't do anything special really, we just announced it at Thanksgiving dinner (we hosted that year). With 20 weeks falling the week of Christmas for me, I imagine we'll do something similar for family.

So, now I really wish we were finding out before thanksgiving because I think it would be hilarious to stuff either a pink or blue mini turkey up the Thanksgiving turkey and reveal it to everyone when the turkey is carved. I may be a little disturbed.

aamm04 · October 2015

We're toying with being team green. If we do find out, we're doing a sex reveal/baby shower combination because we will only be able to travel home once before the baby is here and we want our families there when we find out!

tgortney · October 2015

My parents won't be in the country when we find out

we're planning to FaceTime with my parents and my grandma (who they're going to visit) while having a reveal party with his parents and sister's family. Keeping it family only to save some $.

Will be using panda with bows and monkey with bow ties cupcakes, they will either have blue or pink filling.

jewels1020 · October 2015

TheThornBird said:

kbrands7 said:
With DS, 20 weeks hit just before Thanksgiving. We didn't do anything special really, we just announced it at Thanksgiving dinner (we hosted that year). With 20 weeks falling the week of Christmas for me, I imagine we'll do something similar for family.
So, now I really wish we were finding out before thanksgiving because I think it would be hilarious to stuff either a pink or blue mini turkey up the Thanksgiving turkey and reveal it to everyone when the turkey is carved. I may be a little disturbed.

That would be a cute idea !! Dang it! Lol

kmd0501 · October 2015

We should find out the week between Christmas and New Years so we're (tentatively) planning a NYE gender reveal with colored fireworks

seashellz1223 · October 2015

I'm with @saladflambe on the cake idea- my family loves cake!!

GlenLakeLove · October 2015

For our son, his reveal was Xmas eve. We got 2 small tinsel trees - one pink, one blue from target. We got mini ornaments and had our families write their names on the ornaments and hang them on the tree with their guess. Both trees were lit and we unplugged the tree that was the wrong sex. So the blue tree stayed lit. They all loved it and it was so fun!

sjecc09 · October 2015

I have a friend that sent her US results to an Etsy shop owner that made baby booties. She picked out a boy pair and a girl pair, and had the shop owner send her the appropriate pair and wrapped it when she got it without looking. She and her husband opened the booties at the gender reveal party!

mrsjlopez12 · October 2015

All of these seem like so much fun! We are team green so no finding out for us. Hopefully we can hold out until baby comes! We are planning to announce we are pregnant at Christmas.

It's our 2nd babe.

KnitPearl · October 2015

I'm thinking of baking people-shaped cookies and icing them blue if he's a boy or pink if she's a girl and maybe having a little party to celebrate -- and eat them all.

helleebellee · October 2015

I'm not sure if we'll find out, but either way, I'm making a reveal cake and putting green frosting in it. I've always wanted to.

LizC216 · October 2015

I'm really thinking about not finding out this time. This pregnancy is most likely our last. I'd love to experience that surprise just once.

I do think I'm going to give my younger daughter a middle sister tee for Christmas as a way to announce the pregnancy to our extended family (and also to friends). I know it'll be a bit late to announce, but after having three miscarriages, I like to keep it just to my immediate family.

For my second daughter, my sister baked us a cake with a hole in the center. We filled it with pink m&m's so that when the cake was cut, the m&m's spilled out. Very fun!

LizC216 · October 2015

GlenLakeLove said:
For our son, his reveal was Xmas eve. We got 2 small tinsel trees - one pink, one blue from target. We got mini ornaments and had our families write their names on the ornaments and hang them on the tree with their guess. Both trees were lit and we unplugged the tree that was the wrong sex. So the blue tree stayed lit. They all loved it and it was so fun!

So fun! I'm a sucker for Christmas. Love that idea!

soralette · October 2015

We were Team Green with our first and it was really awesome.

I enjoyed the surprise a lot, and since so few people go Team Green, it was amusing answering people's questions about, "So, do you know what KIND of baby you're having?" with things like, "Human!", because I'm kind of snarky like that.

We originally planned on being Team Green for every kid, but this time, because we had to do IVF with PGS anyway, we already know we're having a second boy. We haven't decided if we're keeping the sex an open secret or if we're going to announce it. If we announce it, it'll be along with the pregnancy announcement around Halloween.

We're thinking of doing something like this, except painting the 'baby' pumpkin blue.

jewels1020 · October 2015

M&ms in the middle of a cake is a super cute idea to! Mostly I think I'm craving cake I had a dream I went to a bakery and I ate over 15 cupcakes and half a regular choclate cake... oh these dreams don't help the cravings lol

On another note I wish I could handle waiting till the birth to find out the sex but I don't think I have it in me I'm way excited, with this being our first and I want to decorate like crazy! BUT kudos to you mommas going green!!!

(:

josie12367 · October 2015

For my husband's family we'll probably send them something baby related in the appropriate color as a Christmas present to opened on Christmas Eve. The outside of the box will read, "A holiday message from Winter Baby #2."

For my family, since i'll be there with them, I've considered doing a cake reveal, or something food related, but also a present. I can't make up my mind. I will probably do the same idea as with the in-laws. We do a family Christmas Eve get together, so the gift would be the last gift under the tree, and i'll give it to my DD to open.

Either way, i'm having some fun with this LO!

LizC216 · October 2015

jewels1020 said:
M&ms in the middle of a cake is a super cute idea to! Mostly I think I'm craving cake I had a dream I went to a bakery and I ate over 15 cupcakes and half a regular choclate cake... oh these dreams don't help the cravings lol

On another note I wish I could handle waiting till the birth to find out the sex but I don't think I have it in me I'm way excited, with this being our first and I want to decorate like crazy! BUT kudos to you mommas going green!!! (:

That dream is hysterical. I also have to be honest, I really want to be team green but I'm not sure that I can make it. I loved buying things for my girls before they were born. Although maybe if I'm team green I'll spend less...maybe not...lol!

schicksal · October 2015

I don't understand green...

I thought yellow was the color everything comes in when you don't know which it's going to be? At least it was for my parents because when I was born they could not do any scans to find out ahead of time.

jewels1020 · October 2015

@LizC216 I woke my husband up about that one and told him to win brownie points cupcakes were the way! Haha still no cupcakes but it's only been a day so we'll see!!

That is a good point spending less money, however with all of my family out of town and this being the first grand baby I know they are going to want to go a little crazy to haha!

lalala2004 · October 2015

schicksal said:
I don't understand green...

I thought yellow was the color everything comes in when you don't know which it's going to be? At least it was for my parents because when I was born they could not do any scans to find out ahead of time.

I don't know why, either. I think it should be purple since that's what blue and pink make when mixed

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yogahh · October 2015

I don't understand green...I thought yellow was the color everything comes in when you don't know which it's going to be?

****stupid qbf
Glad I'm not the only one! For the longest time I thought it meant they were parents who were going to be super green with baby. You know, cloth diapering, organic only baby products..

BlueJuice · October 2015

I don't really know why green either, but hey.

We're toying with being Team Green throughout. I want to do a cute 'impending baby' announcement, but I'm not as excited by the idea of a gender reveal for some reason. Doing it in person at a party or something sounds a bit more fun, but I don't actually think I want to throw a party for this purpose.

On the other hand, we'd be finding out right around the new year, right? I could color champagne! Haha. I'm silly.

ceeesprof · October 2015

schicksal said:

I don't understand green...

I thought yellow was the color everything comes in when you don't know which it's going to be? At least it was for my parents because when I was born they could not do any scans to find out ahead of time.

Based on our experiences with our first, I'd say it's a pretty equal distribution between yellow and green. I don't understand why everything "boy" has to be blue, everything "girl" has to be pink, and everything gender neutral is green/yellow. There are other colors in the world!

autumnlynne1221 · October 2015

Team green here. I'd love to have a cake on Christmas day to reveal the gender but have yellow or green frosting inside. I'm worried it might make some immediate family members a bit testy though lol.

jewels1020 · October 2015

autumnlynne1221 said:
Team green here. I'd love to have a cake on Christmas day to reveal the gender but have yellow or green frosting inside. I'm worried it might make some immediate family members a bit testy though lol.

It might but honestly I think it's a cute idea to let them know you want it to be a suprise.. plus who doesn't love cake??

m6agua · October 2015

I think we will probably do the reveal on my baby shower invite (this is my first). maybe do something special for my parents (there first grandchild).

schicksal · October 2015

Ok so green is the new yellow. Maybe yellow was a more popular color when I was born so that's what they used, who knows. Mom and dad had no choice but to wait anyway since she said there were no ultrasound machines for 100 miles.

I would be perfectly happy not knowing and just waiting until the doctor goes "It's a boy/girl!" at delivery but my other half is impatient and wants to know as soon as possible. Same for Christmas packages that come in the mail. It's only December 17th? Who cares, the package is getting opened right now!

Since we live 1,000 miles away from any family I doubt there will be much of a huge announcement. I mean, wait around long enough and you're bound to find out which one it is!

RanFan28 · October 2015

For my DS, I made homemade scratch off tickets and our families scratched them all off together. It was super fun. For this babe, I like the idea of a Christmasy thing, but I also love the paint bombs or silly string or something crazy. We will probably end up doing a Christmasy thing though. Womp. Womp.

yogahh · October 2015

I never thought that we would be 20ish weeks around the holidays. Based on LMP Ill be 20 weeks on xmas eve. What a nice xmas gift!

2.red.heads · October 2015

For those of you waiting to find out the sex at the delivery it is SO AWESOME!! We did not find out with our son or daughter. This time we have decided to find out plus I'm having twins. Our kids are older (8 & 5) and I think they'll really like knowing (and can get over their disappointment if it's not 'what they wanted'). I think I'm going to keep it simple and inexpensive. I won't want to wait long after the U/S so I'm going to take the envelope straight to a party store and have them put two balloons in a box (it's a boy!/it's a girl!). Then our immediate families can come over and the kids can open the box. I think I'll bake a yellow cake (gotta have dessert!). I may even have the kids at the sonogram but I think I'd just rather wait until we are in our house to tell them (in case one is crying! lol).

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