Did you find out the sex of your baby before giving birth?

[sydneybubhub]

It's a hard one these days.

With such wonderful modern technology at our fingertips, many parents are keen to find out the sex of their baby so as to lessen the shock (sorry... I meant to say plan ahead). The nursery can be put in a gender-specific colour scheme, and the baby's wardrobe can be planned without including items that are sooo not the politically correct colour (but is there such a thing these days when it comes to gorgeous clothes for newborns!??).

On top of all that, it certainly helps in narrowing down the names list... well, at least from two genders to one!

Unless, of course, you're old fashioned like me and just want to have a bit of surprise on the night [or day, or early morning (and as if the breaking of waters isn't surprise enough when it's nowhere near your due date!!)].

Did you take a peek? Or did you adopt a-wait-and-see attitude?

[2girls&1angelboy]

found out i was having girls and i had girls

[IndigoJ]

I found out i was having a boy, and i had a boy.

The way i saw it i could buy all the boys clothes and stuff and have a surprise for the next one. As opposed to having a surprise for the first and buying both genders clothes. That would have been too expensive for us.

[earthfairy]

Didnt find out the sex & we had the most beautiful, perfect baby girl....

I was surprised to find that most people were quite shocked that we didn't find out the sex!?!?!
Every time someone asked & we said "NO" they always answered with "WHY?"



Is it the norm these days to find out?

I have to say that initially i wanted to find out & DH didn't, im so glad he convinced me to keep it a surprise...there arent many surprises in life these days...and this was by far THE BEST one ever!

[SammiAnn]

Hi ,

We didn't find out with our first two pregnancies, they were lovely surprises .

With our third we thought we'd see what it was like to find out, but we didn't tell anyone that we knew what bub was. We were told a boy and although I was skeptical after the first scan there was no doubting it on our many growth scans towards the end, particulary a 4D one at 32 weeks !

For our fourth and final we plan to not find out. We enjoyed the surprise and the knowing but watching everyone else's reactions made us want to wait with our last.

Sam

PS I didn't vote in your poll as we did both and I couldn't do mulitple choice, sorry.

[Myosotis]

Cant vote as the poll is not multiple choice..
I didnt find out either time, first time had a boy second time a girl..

[Myztiks#1Fan]

i wanted to find out however coops legs were closed when we did the ultrasould his legs were closed however they took a shot and said boy and i was lucky as i wanted a boy. i couldnt think of any girls names and i just love little boys and i had a boy

[3BoysBlue]

1st time we didn't find out, It was a Boy

2nd time we did find out, It was a Boy and they where right

3rd time we did find out, It was a Boy and I'm guessing we will find out in around 10wks if their right

[MummaFug]

I needed to make 2 selections but couldnt

I found out both times, once boy and once girl. BOTH times were correct.

[Emmi]

We didnt find out. Everyone but my mum said boy, inlcuding me, as baby was sooo active!
I got my girl and it was such an awesome suprise and almost like a little reward for all my hard work in labour and birth!