Team Green!

therealfrizzle · July 2016

Who's on Team Green?!

I thought it would be nice to have a Team Green thread going where we can share anxieties, excitements, and tips on how to prepare for a Green child.

LastMango · July 2016

Team green over here! I was with my last pregnancy as well and there really is no special preparation. We knew we wanted more than one kid so everything "big" that we bought was gender neutral (car seat, pack n play, high chair, etc). Even the nursery was done in a beach theme so now that kiddo #2 is on the way, we are moving DD into the guest room and this baby straight into the nursery as is without having to change a thing.

I love not knowing and wouldn't have it any other way.

therealfrizzle · July 2016

A beach theme sounds awesome! We are going for a jungle/Noah's ark theme since I have so many stuffed animals from my childhood I refuse to get rid of LOL. I never realized how hard it would be to be on Team Green; from people saying it's silly and we'll change our minds to others telling us, 'Oh, it's a (insert gender)' so confidently without any evidence to back it up. But we are having so much fun not knowing!

KRB22 · July 2016

Also team green!
I have to admit I've been more tempted lately to find out, but that might just be because everyone keeps asking. this is my first, but like @LastMango we are planning to have more, so it makes sense for all the basics and big gear items to be gender neutral. We'll also probably keep the nursery as the nursery and move this babe to the guest room next time around, so either way we'd be going with some neutral decor.

SquirrelGiggles83 · July 2016

I've been contemplating team green. Or, that even if we find out, that we will go relatively gender neutral. I was thinking about a stars/space theme. What do you guys think about that in terms of neutrality?

ceclarlinetlo · July 2016

@SquirrelGiggles83 love a stars/space/cute alien theme for a neutral nursery. I thought I wanted to be team green until we decided on names and now I want to use our name for baby so I want to find out lol. We are still going very neutral for most things partially for economics and partially because that's just our esthetic. We were thinking space/alien until we remembered we have a poster of the periodic table of elephants so now we are doing elephants/sciency things.

LastMango · July 2016

@SquirrelGiggles83 It's absolutely neutral. I'd recommend going with a theme that YOU like as I'm pretty sure the babies could care less. You will be spending so much time in the nursery that you want to make it's an atmosphere that you enjoy.

LoneStar21416 · July 2016

Green here! The doctor was definitely able to tell at our appointment today, but we asked her not to share. Proud of our will power!!! But if I'm being honest, I'm not even that curious right now!

ETA: I'm not sure we will really have a theme to the nursery. We'ee set on the colors we want though.

lindsladle15 · July 2016

This is our third pregnancy and we are trying to go team green this time. We found out (both girls) with the first two because DH wanted to know and I think it helped him feel more connected to the pregnancy, but I'm trying to be adamant to wait this time! In my mind, it's like the ultimate surprise!!
Anyone who's done it before have any fun stories I can share with DH?!

ashanne88 · July 2016

Team green (x2) too! With all the extra ultrasounds this time, I'm hoping we don't accidentally find out. We were team green last time and it was great. We did get comments from strangers that I found odd, like "how can you prepare if you don't know" or "so are you waiting to buy everything until the baby is born". Face palm. Everything we got before he was born is all neutral - greens, yellows and light blues - so we knew it would work for an additional child.

@lindsladle15 Finding out he was a he when he was born was such a special moment for DH and me. Obviously meeting your child for the first time is a special moment whether you know or not, but I think it made it that much more special for us. I don't quite know how to describe it. Hope you can convince your DH!

KRB22 · July 2016

@LoneStar21416 I don't think we will really do a theme either.
The room gets a lot of good light so I want to stick with bright colors, and not a whole lot of pastels. Originally I was thinking red, white and blue, but now leaning towards just white and blue. That way if it's a girl we can still mix in some pink accents after she's born.

BAJDesigns · July 2016

Team Green here! Like PP, we plan on having more than one and neither DH and I are fans of super gendered baby gear so we knew we'd be Team Green from the beginning. I get a kick out of everyone's predictions, especially when two people use the same symptom to justify opposite sex guesses! We just started painting the nursery this weekend (we are early birds, I know, but I think DH needed something tangible to do 'for baby') and are going with a gray and minty blue color scheme.

Mylitta · July 2016

Me too team green! Like @ashanne88 I've had a lot of people ask me how I can prepare for the child if I don't know... most frequently my brother. I've asked what will be different, and other than clothes he can't come up with anything. Apparently it's too odd to contemplate for many.
The only thing I thought of was circumcision, but that discussion can happen regardless. I'm excited to get to know my child as they come.

We're going with a mythological theme... I'm pretty excited about it. I have two color schemes I'm deciding between, but they're both neutral. We want more kids so it's nice that all of this can be reused without too much fuss (though to be honest I'd reuse it anyway for the most part, at least all but clothes)

mommywesley · July 2016

We were tram green the last 2x and I think we will be again this time. DH loved it so much when we did it! He thought it was the best to go into the waiting room and announce to family "it's a boy!" :-)

therealfrizzle · July 2016

@mommywesley I think that's what I look forward to the most! I can see the grandmas tearing up now lol

lindsladle15 · July 2016

I agree, @mommywesley and @PMForbie...we haven't done it, but I can just imagine the anticipation from all around as your due date nears! People will definitely be looking for the news

agea · September 2016

Just seein if I can revive the team green board

hows everyone doing? Still holding strong??

now that most of us are past the point when we can find out I'm curious if anyone has experienced any slips from ultrasound techs or docs?

Do do you feel like you're expecting one over the other?

any interesting reactions from people who want you to find out?

We're doing pretty well as we could have found out several weeks ago- now that the option to not know is old, were committed! Just hoping no one slips! Most people are positive about the unknown although we get a few annoyed reactions - which annoys me!

lydia-deetz · September 2016

Team green and holding strong! ILs make me batty with their obvious preference for boys, which makes me super protective of my potential girl, but whatever. They'd be annoying no matter what!

MrsRahl · September 2016

Green here for the second time. First time around my daughter had to be whisked away for emergency before they even told me her sex! I was yelling "what is it?" Lol. I echo @LastMango. We have little to prepare because everything first round was neutral, plus my cousins were team green, so we got all their neutral hand me down stuff for my daughter, so my 2nd kid will be the 4th through these outfits lol poor kid! But babies wear things for such a short period, they all look practically new.

We did our nursery in blue, gray and yellow. My daughter is moving into our room and the new babe will go into her nursery. I have all the feels!!

KRB22 · September 2016

Still team green here too! I'll admit we almost caved at the AS 2 weeks ago, but I reminded myself the wait will be worth it.

I've been having ultrasounds with a MFM, and the doctor and techs all know we're not finding out and have reconfirmed at the beginning of each visit. And I guess my MWs don't know at all - so no potential slip ups there! I asked at my last visit and she said it is probably buried somewhere in the ultrasound reports, but it's not something they explicitly look for.

My mom has also stopped bugging me to find out.

I have actually had a feeling since the beginning this is a girl, but obviously don't want to put too much stock into that. Also, as a FTM I don't know how reliable my hunches really are!

LoneStar21416 · September 2016

Holding strong!!! I love this thread. Thanks for resurrecting. We told our anatomy scan tech we didn't want to know and she didn't slip. She was very professional; I liked her a lot. I had a follow up call w my doctor about the anatomy scan about a week later, and I meant to say, "we don't want to know the sex!" at the beginning of the call, just in case. I totally forgot, because I was so anxious to just hear that everything was OK. Luckily, the doctor said NOTHING about it and used no pronouns. I'm going to have to ask if it's even on the report she was looking at (just out of curiousity).

I really like being team green. At first I had no desire to know the sex at all really. Then I had a week or so where I was sort of getting anxious to know, and was starting to get really curious. Now that's totally passed and I'm back to not being that curious. Very strange!

therealfrizzle · September 2016

I'm so glad this thread is resurrected! Being team green is so much fun and I love hearing how other TG mamas are doing. We had our Anatomy US 2 weeks ago and, for DH, the hardest part was looking away when they got to the that part of the scan. But we were talking just last night about how we don't really feel bothered now. I don't even know when my next US is going to be. The midwife told us they don't even put the sex of the baby on the file so they can't mess it up, they have to ask first.

No one in our family is bothering us; they are all excited to find out at the same time. Co-workers think I'm crazy, but, then again, I've always been a tad on the crazy side Those in my close circles are having fun guessing what we're having. I think more people are leaning to girl, but I really think Baby is a boy. Heart rate is in the boy area (not that I put much stock in that, but one of my friends SWEARS by it) and I keep dreaming of a baby boy. I'd like to have a girl first, maybe because I'm the oldest with a younger brother, but I'm good with a healthy, babbling baby

LastMango · September 2016

Still team green over here! The AS was tempting of course, especially when we had to look away while the tech took pictures of the bladder. I asked her if she saw anything and she winked at me so it's tough having someone else know when you don't. Hopefully she's forgotten by now!

Everyone is really supportive of us not finding out. I think it's because we were team green with our first so they were expecting it this time. Although I am tired of hearing people assume that we want this one to be a boy since we have a girl already.

Is is anyone else having a hard time coming up with and agreeing on two names?

LoneStar21416 · September 2016

@lastmango we are good with a girl name, I think, but stuck with boy names. I've ranted about this before, but everything just seems too popular. Our preference is for traditional names (James, Robert, etc.). My husband seems ok with the few we have floating around for boys, but I'm not in love with them -- mostly because I just think they're too common and popular. The contender we have for a boy name would be my dad's name and my FIL's name (first and middle name, respectively), which would help me get over the popularity issue because it would have more meaning, and both names are very traditional, but I'm still not sold yet...

LastMango · September 2016

@LoneStar21416 Boy names are where we hit a wall, too. Although we don't have a girl name picked out yet, we have a long list of possibilities. Boys? None. They all seem either too trendy/popular or just wacky and made up.

LoneStar21416 · September 2016

Completely! I really dislike the idea of my child having a common name, but I also can't stand "unique"/made up names. I guess I want it all lol

therealfrizzle · September 2016

We've had our names picked out for a while. It was so hard to come up with girl names for us! Everything seems either too trendy or prudish. We decided we are going to use names after family members, which does help. Boy is going to be after my granddad, Edward, and I can't wait to use Eddie as a nickname, since that's what my granddad went by. For girls, we decided to use FIL's middle name Sidney. I like that it's a name that isn't uncommon, but with an old fashioned spelling. And it was the only thing we could really agree on. Names are tough. Sometimes I still question our choices.

KRB22 · September 2016

@LastMango @LoneStar21416 agree about boy names! I feel like options for girl names that are not super common but also not made up are endless, but the boy options seem more limited.

Right now we have 2 potential boy names - 1 is very common/traditional (but is a family name and has always been a favorite of mine). The other is a surname from my family, which is definitely not common as a first name, but isn't completely out there in terms of spelling/pronunciation. We have a good middle name to use with it, which would also allow for some good nickname options. We really don't have much else for boys at this point though.

For or girls we have 2 top contenders that we both agree on, and there's probably a 95% chance if we have a girl she will be named 1 of these. We have a decent sized list of backup girl names, too.

I I don't think we'll decide on anything for sure until the baby is born. I'm happy we have a short list right now, but also worried that come January we will have changed our minds and won't love any of the current top choices.

ashanne88 · September 2016

Still holding strong as Team Green too! It's a lot harder this time having weekly ultrasounds, but the techs are always really good about confirming I don't want to know, telling me to close my eyes and reminding the perinatologist when he/she comes in to check. My gut still says they're boys. I do get a little annoyed when people say they hope they're girls since we have DS already or ask me if I'm hoping for girls. Nope, just want two healthy babies.

I think we have settled on our 4 name choices. Our boy name was so easy last time and it took so much longer to settle on a girl name. This time, the girl names were pretty easy and the boy names took forever to decide on. The only way we were able to decide was by narrowing it down to a 'D' and 'E' name so that our options were limited (we have an accidental alphabet theme going on - DH, DS and I are A, B and C).

lindsladle15 · September 2016

That's pretty cool, @ashanne88 about your name theme! And it's a good idea considering how many names you had to decide on.
You are so strong not finding out with twins!
I've been struggling because my DH wants to know, but we found out with the first two (which are girls)! We got past our a/s today and looked away when it was time. Phew.

Kurtni · September 2016

I browse the bump on my lunch at work and was literally just excited to see this thread revived and I was going to post after my anatomy scan today. We told the tech we didn't want to know the sex and she told us when not to look. Then while she was getting the abdomen circumference baby moved and flashed us. It was clearly a boy. The tech didn't say anything until I asked if that was what I thought it was... but I am kicked off of team green.

KRB22 · September 2016

Kurtni said:

I browse the bump on my lunch at work and was literally just excited to see this thread revived and I was going to post after my anatomy scan today. We told the tech we didn't want to know the sex and she told us when not to look. Then while she was getting the abdomen circumference baby moved and flashed us. It was clearly a boy. The tech didn't say anything until I asked if that was what I thought it was... but I am kicked off of team green.

Ahh I'm sorry you inadvertently found out! But congrats on your baby boy!!

therealfrizzle · September 2016

@kurtni, that was my biggest fear! But, you could totally throw a surprise gender reveal party if you haven't told many people. I told DH I had already planned a get together involving balloons and/or cupcakes just in case baby doesn't listen. Sorry Baby wasn't cooperating with you guys, but yay for having a healthy boy!

ashanne88 · September 2016

@Kurtni Aw I'm sorry you accidentally found out, but yay for your baby boy!! Little boys are so much fun. I second throwing a surprise reveal party.

Kurtni · September 2016

Thanks ladies. It was funny telling people it was a boy. We didn't find out with our first and didn't plan to this time, so I think the fact that we knew was a bigger surprise than the actual sex.

agea · September 2016

@Kurtni Congrats on your boy! We've got our big anatomy scan tomorrow and are hoping to avoid a sneak peak. It was a little challenging at our 16 week but hopefully we can get through it without issue!

We are calling our bump a boy as we find it to be the default pronoun, we're both from boy-first families, so we assume that's what we'll start with. But our guess doesn't extend beyond that. At the 16 weeks I asked the tech a question on "him" and she answered with "he" - so I wasn't sure if she was referring to the sex or just responding in kind to my question. Hard to not read into that though!

MrsRahl · September 2016

Same with names here. @LastMango same scenario! Team green last time, had a girl, now everyone thinks we want a boy. Last I around we couldn't agree on a boy name and luckily had a girl, now it's the other way around because we used the only girl name we had

lindsladle15 · September 2016

Oh man, @Kurtni I'm sorry (that is, if you are frustrated about it!). Sometimes those babies have a mind of their own!

lindsladle15 · September 2016

I also must make a confession.....I actually had the doctor write the sex on a piece of paper in an envelope as a surprise for my husband. We do not know the sex and he actually has no idea I had this done. I had been feeling guilty about being selfish and wanting to wait so I had the doctor do that. I'm trying to decide what to do. I considered surprising him with it sometime, along with a boy and girl outfit, or just talking about it with him and seeing what he thinks we should do.
Argh! It was a moment of weakness, but I know he wants to know so badly (and my mom/sister).

LastMango · September 2016

lindsladle15 said:

I also must make a confession.....I actually had the doctor write the sex on a piece of paper in an envelope as a surprise for my husband. We do not know the sex and he actually has no idea I had this done. I had been feeling guilty about being selfish and wanting to wait so I had the doctor do that. I'm trying to decide what to do. I considered surprising him with it sometime, along with a boy and girl outfit, or just talking about it with him and seeing what he thinks we should do.
Argh! It was a moment of weakness, but I know he wants to know so badly (and my mom/sister).

Is letting him open it but not telling you an option? Or would you be able to "read" him?

Don't feel guilty. He'll find out in a couple of weeks.

lindsladle15 · September 2016

@LastMango We have considered him knowing and me not, but I think that would drive me nuts! I'd definitely have to know then. Also, if he happened to let anyone know that he knew, they'd get it out of him! I think he'd slip to me, too.
So if we are going to find out, we will together. He still doesn't know the envelope exists

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