Who wants to stay "Team Green?"

[oneslybookworm]

How many of you want to find out the baby's gender/sex when the time comes? Are any of planning on not finding out?

(Ps - I also can never remember if it's "baby's gender" or "baby's sex"...I always thought gender, but I feel like there's a rule to this)

[oneslybookworm]

DH and I were just talking in the car about this, and he said he doesn't think he wants to find out. He'd like to have all the health screens done, but would prefer to be surprised when it comes to gender. I was really surprised by this, because he's an engineer and plans EVERYTHING! But, I'm glad, because I don't want to know either.

[ouokie]

I think it would be fun but I'm also a planner and I would need to know. We found out with DD and we would most likely find out with the next one.

I've had a lot of friends who were team green and they have said that it was the best feeling to wait to find out at birth.

[tiptoetulips]

We will find out. I just don't think I could wait!

[oneslybookworm]

Apr 13, 2014 10:44:54 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Apr 13, 2014 10:20:01 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

How many of you want to find out the baby's gender/sex when the time comes? Are any of planning on not finding out?

(Ps - I also can never remember if it's "baby's gender" or "baby's sex"...I always thought gender, but I feel like there's a rule to this)

I'm far too much if a planner to nit find out as soon as possible LOL

Also, it's sex (male or female). 

Gender is the set of social norms around male/female behavior.

Thank you!! I could never remember the rule!

[awick14]

Neither of us care either way. But we are leaning towards team green.

[preppy]

We will find out. I am bad at waiting.

[lms]

We will definitely find out. There's just no way either of us could wait.

[grover]

We will find out.

[pooh8402]

We will definitely find out. We are way too impatient and I have different ideas for the nursery based on the sex.

[nextbigthing]

We want to know the sex. I am a big time planner and not knowing would drive me nuts.

however, I do totally understand people that wait, it is a great surprise if you can stand the wait!

[bk1]

We will find out. There is no way I could wait that long, plus I plan on being more focused on picking a name after we find out the sex.

[fayeelle]

In theory team green sounds amazing. But in reality I don't think we could wait.

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[kellsbelles]

I want to have that connection with the baby and be able to say him or her and not just it. But I also love the fun of a surprise-there aren't many positive surprises like that left in life. But well find out at least for the first one.

[starburst604]

We will find out the minute we are able to! People have tried the "make it a surprise" argument on me but I'm unswayed. To me, a surprise is like someone having a surprise party for you that you had no idea about. And yay, SURPRISE! Not finding out the sex, for me, is like being told there will be a party for me and it might be at a the swankiest restaurant in NYC, or it might be at a rodeo. No way to prepare the right outfit!! I hate being unprepared.

[katie80]

I'm kind of indifferent, but DH feels very strongly about staying on Team Green for the first one. His reasoning is something about there being so few good surprises in life. I'm on board- it sounds like fun to wait, I think. We will probably do whatever genetic testing the dr. recommends but leave that one thing a secret.

With #2 (and any others, if that happens), we'll most likely find out when we can. Mostly so we can plan/buy whatever new stuff we need (I'm hoping this won't be too much of an issue if we get pretty neutral stuff the first time anyway...), but also because I'm sure if #2 is the same sex as #1 I'll probably be just a little disappointed for just a minute, and I don't want to worry about that on their birth day. Of course I'll get over it and be thrilled with either, but I can see needing a minute to get used to the idea and I don't want that to be what I'm focused on in the moment, if that makes sense

[christy082]

I think we will be team green. Although we may change our mind once we are actually pregnant.

[ginkgoleaf]

We were team green with DS. It was the best to have my DH announce the baby's sex after birth. I am a big planner but we wanted all neutral baby stuff to reuse for any future kids, and when people find out ahead off time, they always get tons of pink or blue clothes. We did a green nursery.

We may find out with #2, mainly because if it's a girl, I'll want/ need to get some girl clothes. Plus I think DS might bond better with a baby knowing if it was a girl or boy.

[MrsH2010]

We will find out, at least with our first. I am such a planner. I do think it would be special to wait, so possibly with our second.

[awick14]

Apr 13, 2014 22:42:35 GMT -5 MrsH2010 said:

We will find out, at least with our first. I am such a planner. I do think it would be special to wait, so possibly with our second.

See with me I think not finding out with our first and getting everything neutral colors then finding out with any children that come after would be awesome.

[vanillahip]

I would like to stay team green but it'll remain up in the air until the AS, I'm sure

[estrellita]

I've thought about this a lot and I still don't know. I probably won't make up my mind until the time comes to find out. I really like the idea of keeping it a surprise along with the name and everything else. If we do stay team green, we will probably pick one or two names for each and take those to the hospital. If we do find out, we'd probably take at least two names. I don't know if I like the idea of deciding the name so early, so that will definitely be kept secret if we decide on one before baby is born. I guess I won't really know how I feel until I'm in the situation!

[shauni27]

we will be team green if we get pregnant. I like the idea of knowing ahead (because I am impatient as f*ck), but to me there is nothing I can do to change it, I don't want a lot of gender specific crap before my child is even born, and it is literally natural to not know what you are having, so I figured we will just go with it!

[belle55]

I can definitely see the appeal, but when I've had friends expecting that didn't find out the sex, I've been frustrated at the lack of gender neutral stuff on the market. I can only imagine it would drive me even more nuts when it's my own child! Plus I'm impatient and would just want to know, so we will likely find out.

[coda]

Both dh and I want to find out but I would like to keep it a secret from our family. The last thing I want if we have a girl is having pink everything. I mean, I like pink but there are so many other nice colours for a girl.


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