Finding out about Sex

[dotty.]

of my grandchild tomorrow, due mid December. Wasn't it better when we were surprised by Sex?

[MarkRae]

I was expecting something quite different from the thread title, dotty.

Surely you don't have to know if you don't want to...?

[dotty.]

I'd love not to know but I think it will be like the Likely Lads episode where they didn't want to know the match result,

[ummmm]

I only found out with my youngest. The only reason wanted to know was so I could sort the bedrooms out if need be. I just moved to a bigger house in the end..

[dotty.]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPiKQGJZfkc

[MASS1961]

You could ask them not to tell you but it would be very difficult NOT to find out indirectly.

We decided we didn't want to know but funnily enough somehow we knew she was going to be a girl.

[ladyalex]

I definitely did not want to know and didn't until he was born.
To me it is like opening your presents before Christmas. It adds so much to the joy.After all, as soon as the babe has arrived, it is beautiful and exactly what you wanted.

[DaisyNonna]

yes. Prevents stereotyping.

[MASS1961]

I think I understand the reasoning behind wanting to know the sex of the baby but it seems to me it's taking some of the magic away.

[ummmm]

I didn't think it did.

Daisy - How does it prevent stereo typing?

[DaisyNonna]

You expect a boy, decorate the room with boyish stuff. Cars, trains etc. A girl? All too often pink room. Flowers, butterflies. Where is the joy of embracing a new person?

[ummmm]

So you dress a baby in neutral clothes for the first few weeks. Then you replace with clothes of their gender, buy toys of their gender and probably do their room the same.

Hardly going to have an impact on the baby's life.

[DaisyNonna]

No

[bednobs]

when i was pregnant the first time we found out the sex - it was all so new and exciting. When i was pg the second time, i didn't want to know the sex at the scan because i wasn't sure what my face was going to do and i didn't want the sonographer to think any less of me. Because my daughter had died, whatever the sex of the second one was it was going to be emotional. My husband stayed behind to find out and i/he lasted about 24 hours before i tortured it out of him. With the third one, i just had to know!

[tonyav]

DOH, this thread ain't what I thought it was going to be.

[RATTER15]

I never wanted to know the sex of my babies before birth. Each to their own I suppose.

[tonyav]

Never knew the sex of our three, didn't want to know I like the element of surprise.

[rockyracoon]

I didn't want to know the sex of either of mine. When I was 40 weeks pregnant with my second I had to have a scan. My dad came with me as he'd never seen one before, he tortured the life out of me til I asked the scan lady to tell me the sex (grandad was desperate for a grandaughter). Unfortunately for him, the baby was laying wrong so nothing could be seen, he got a pink one 3 days later.

[China Doll]

I would always want to know. It makes practical sense to me and I see no advantage or 'magic' to not knowing, I think it's just unnecessary sentiment.

Mind you, one of the girls at work was told she was having a girl so was a little suprised when a boy popped out.

[B00]

I'm with CD- I/we wanted to know the sex of both of mine. Don't see the point of arguing over two lists of possible names when you can argue over just the one.