Finding Out...

[angelsgirl]

How many of you ladies will be finding out/or have previously found out, the sex of your baby?
Why will you or why won't you???


We have decided not to find out, but it is going to be very hard not to ask when we have my 20 week ultrasound in 2 weeks time.

We would like to have a surprise at the birth... And honestly, it didn't occur to me that i would find out until my dr asked!!!

 

[JayCeeGirl]

We are definitely finding out. Neither of us are patient enough to wait. Plus, we'd like to know what to buy and how to decorate.

 

[Beth1231]

We waited to find out the gender. There are pros and cons to both waiting and finding out....just like every other decision during pregnancy, really

 

[~Mrs. A2J~]

We found out with one and not with the other and probably won't find out again with number 3.

 

[-~Truth_N_Trust~-]

we found out with both. We are too impatient and too practical (needed to sort out clothes/paint rooms etc.)! But for me it is also a huge bonding experience...

 

[angelsgirl]

We are just going to paint the room a yellow and get linen and stuff that is all neutral colours (greens/purples/yellows).
PLus it means i will be able to reuse it when i have other babies!!!

Can it be really obvious at the 20 week ultrasound if it is a girl or a boy?

 

[ChristianMama84]

We are just going to paint the room a yellow and get linen and stuff that is all neutral colours (greens/purples/yellows).
PLus it means i will be able to reuse it when i have other babies!!!

Can it be really obvious at the 20 week ultrasound if it is a girl or a boy?

I said that, too, at first. Know what? Everything is blue now. lol I'm weird like that, though.

With our son it was, but the nurse had to hunt for it. I already knew before then, though. God told me when I was 6 weeks pregnant I was having a boy, I didn't even know I was pregnant until two weeks later.

 

[~Mrs. A2J~]

Can it be really obvious at the 20 week ultrasound if it is a girl or a boy?

Yes, we didn't want to know with our first either but I had an ultrasound with her and it was sooooo obvious.

 

[angelsgirl]

oh... well that is going to make it alot harder not to find out then!!!
I guess we will have to wait and see what happens!!!

 

[HDoggie19]

We find out the sex the second week of January. I'm too impatient and a control freak, so I don't want to wait. I was one of those kids who sneaked around the house to find my Christmas presents early. I'm bratty like that!

 

[Leanna]

I want to find out!!!! Its my favorite appointment of the pregnancy, and I can't wait to find out my surprise.... December 26th..... *jumps up and down*

We live in a 3 bedroom house and I want to paint both kids rooms and the bigger room will be for the two of the same gender so we hope to do that in January.

Can you tell I will be disappointed if I can't find out??? I hope that doesn't happen to me! I'm going to drink orange juice and hope for the best.

 

[Beth1231]

We are just going to paint the room a yellow and get linen and stuff that is all neutral colours (greens/purples/yellows).
PLus it means i will be able to reuse it when i have other babies!!!

Can it be really obvious at the 20 week ultrasound if it is a girl or a boy?

I had everything neutral for those first few weeks and I'm telling you I BADLY wanted something pink! So...you may want to get a pink and a blue blanket (just two little soft ones) so that you can use it in the first week or so before friends and relatives get the happy news and buy you the appropriate color clothes. Or maybe a blue and a pink simple sleeper or onesie to put them in to go home. Just a tip from my own experience.

 

[Leanna]

Or maybe a blue and a pink simple sleeper or onesie to put them in to go home.

I remember telling you the same thing

 

[Beth1231]

I remember telling you the same thing

lol

Yeah, and I didn't listen! So angelsgirl, be smarter than me. If you are going to wait for your surprise till birth...bring along something blue and pink!



(on the way home from the hospital, Hubby stopped to buy newborn PINK onesies, lol)

 

[angelsgirl]

That's actually not a bad idea... I think i might do that!!!

It's actually going to be really hard not to ask. Up until now we haven't been able to find out what the baby is going to be.

Ugh... decisions!!!
My husband doesn't mind either way, i kinda wish he had an opinion one way or the other!!!

I was thinking about it last night and... i really want to know... and i really want to wait... ugh. I feel like i am going crazy!!!

 

[~Mrs. A2J~]

That's actually not a bad idea... I think i might do that!!!

It's actually going to be really hard not to ask. Up until now we haven't been able to find out what the baby is going to be.

Ugh... decisions!!!
My husband doesn't mind either way, i kinda wish he had an opinion one way or the other!!!

I was thinking about it last night and... i really want to know... and i really want to wait... ugh. I feel like i am going crazy!!!

Do you have a preference for a boy or a girl? If you don't I would wait to find out until the birth. That's what I would do having experienced both finding out and waiting until the birth.

 

[Leanna]

lol

Yeah, and I didn't listen! So angelsgirl, be smarter than me. If you are going to wait for your surprise till birth...bring along something blue and pink!



(on the way home from the hospital, Hubby stopped to buy newborn PINK onesies, lol)

I think its fun to see you now on the other side of motherhood.... how it changes things !

That's actually not a bad idea... I think i might do that!!!

It's actually going to be really hard not to ask. Up until now we haven't been able to find out what the baby is going to be.

Ugh... decisions!!!
My husband doesn't mind either way, i kinda wish he had an opinion one way or the other!!!

I was thinking about it last night and... i really want to know... and i really want to wait... ugh. I feel like i am going crazy!!!

I can sort of understand this struggle. I hope you and your husband can decide when you want your secret revealed, I am hoping to know in 21 days (*jumps up and down again*). I think people on both sides of this issue love "their" way so its hard to really give advice on it

 

[CrystalBrooke]

I found out with my daughter and more than likely I'll ask what the next one is (whenever that will be). I'm just far too impatient to not know what it is. I wish I were more patient tho, I think it would be a great to not know until the baby was born and hearing the doctor say "it's a boy/girl"

 

[PinkTulip]

I found out. I wanted to prepare the baby's room early and buy lots of pink items

 

[angelsgirl]

Do you have a preference for a boy or a girl? If you don't I would wait to find out until the birth. That's what I would do having experienced both finding out and waiting until the birth.

No, we don't have a preference. I don't mind either way...
It funny, i've been asking Kaboose (our nickname til he/she is born): "Are you a boy or a girl???"
I feel like an absolute lunatic. I think its cause i 'can' find out that its making me crazy. Once i get through the ultrasound i think it will go back to the way it was before.

Leanna... i hope you bub cooperates for you and you find out!!!
Not very long to go now!!! Will you tell other people? Or is it just for you and your husband to know?