finding out the sex of an unborn baby

make_me_wise

Hi OP, hope your daughter is doing well and the pregnancy going smoothly. Im not in NI so cant advise about the hospitals there. I do have a number of friends who have had babies recently in the UK. Most hospitals will reveal the babies sex if you ask at the scan. I do know of a number of people who were told inaccurately though. Which is why, as someone else mentioned in another post they only commit to saying it appears to be a boy/girl.

If your daughter wants to know for 100% sure then I would recommend a private 3D/4D scan. They are not extortionate and you'd all know for definate then. Plus what an amazing thing to see your new grandchild in photos and cd.

Think there must be something in the air right now. I found out myself a few days ago that I am pregnant and due 4 January. The first signs of morning sickness have hit me today and I feel grotty. Hope your daughter is coping okay with it all, send her my best.

Hard_up,_not_happy

andy.m wrote: »

it saddens me that everyone needs to know these days as to the sex of the unborn baby.

andy.m wrote: »

Everybody who finds out has a great justification why.

We have a beautiful Son, in the first 6 months or so he wore white, blue, yellow whatever.
At no point did the sex of him within my wife's womb have any bearing whatsoever on whether you would have to buy clothes.

The ONLY reason to want to know is impatience

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Could I have your life please, where your greatest worry and upset seems to be whether other people choose to find out the sex of their unborn baby. You are blessed.

taxi36

make_me_wise wrote: »

Hi OP, hope your daughter is doing well and the pregnancy going smoothly. Im not in NI so cant advise about the hospitals there. I do have a number of friends who have had babies recently in the UK. Most hospitals will reveal the babies sex if you ask at the scan. I do know of a number of people who were told inaccurately though. Which is why, as someone else mentioned in another post they only commit to saying it appears to be a boy/girl.

If your daughter wants to know for 100% sure then I would recommend a private 3D/4D scan. They are not extortionate and you'd all know for definate then. Plus what an amazing thing to see your new grandchild in photos and cd.

Think there must be something in the air right now. I found out myself a few days ago that I am pregnant and due 4 January. The first signs of morning sickness have hit me today and I feel grotty. Hope your daughter is coping okay with it all, send her my best.

Hiya Make-me-wise.
I was just reading you're post where you informed everyone about you're pregnancy , what excellent news! I am so pleased for you and you're OH.

You are not far behind my Daughter then, it seems her due date is 9th Dec.
The dreaded morning sickness. My Daughter had a few terrible days of it but it seems to have eased now. She is a tiny wee thing and already the tiny bump is showing

Hopefully it all goes well for you. As you say , there must be something in the air

pigpen

ViolaLass wrote: »

This is the bit I don't really get, why would you care? And why do children have to be dressed in pink for people to think they're a girl?

Would you care if people thought you were a man? I know I would.. not that it is likely.. but it is bad enough being asked what the baby is called how much they weighed yada yada without the added potentially embarrassing for the asker 'is it a boy or girl?' Most people wouldn't want to ask the gender and would hope you hadn't called it something unisex.

Plus there is gender stereotyping.. boy = blue girl = pink. .. I hate green and I don't much like yellow either and I hate tiny babies in bright colours.

I wouldn't buy gender specific bedding, chairs, etc because I would want to use it for the next baby too.. When I had the last one we bought cream bedding that we could save or pass on.. it also increases the resale market by 50%.

I also abhor surprises.

madbird_2

Hi Taxi,

I can only agree with what make me wise says, perfect sense to me. If your daughter really wants to know then why not?!

I always said I wouldn't want to know....but as I'm now 40, and this will be my first (and last!) child I was open to finding out and my OH also wanted to know. So we did. It was obvious at 20 week scan, but as they couldn't get all measurements I had to go back 2 weeks later for a re scan and found out then - even though they can only say "appears to be male" If we hadn't had found out we would have gone for a private scan. Had a growth scan last week...its def a boy;):D

So as we found out it made it easier to buy for, yes I've some neutral stuff, he doesn't have a nursery, but we knew who we were buying for and what we felt would fit in. If I'd had a girl she wouldn't have been an all pink either.

Hope her sickness improves....mine did at 18 weeks...it started at 6 and a half weeks...just the heartburn to contend with now. Wishing her all the best (and you and your wife as fab parents yourselves) x

OrkneyStar

pigpen wrote: »

Would you care if people thought you were a man? I know I would.. not that it is likely.. but it is bad enough being asked what the baby is called how much they weighed yada yada without the added potentially embarrassing for the asker 'is it a boy or girl?' Most people wouldn't want to ask the gender and would hope you hadn't called it something unisex.

Plus there is gender stereotyping.. boy = blue girl = pink. .. I hate green and I don't much like yellow either and I hate tiny babies in bright colours.

I wouldn't buy gender specific bedding, chairs, etc because I would want to use it for the next baby too.. When I had the last one we bought cream bedding that we could save or pass on.. it also increases the resale market by 50%.

I also abhor surprises.

Glad to see someone else would re-use things and not buy gender-specific (although for the record we stopped after one so did not actually re-use them after all!). I love babies in bright colours though (especially contrasted with white!), and think life would be dull without surprises :eek::eek::eek::eek:.
x

Apricot

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Glad to see someone else would re-use things and not buy gender-specific (although for the record we stopped after one so did not actually re-use them after all!). I love babies in bright colours though (especially contrasted with white!), and think life would be dull without surprises :eek::eek::eek::eek:.
x

The reason I mentioned a bouncy chair and highchair is because mine have all come from my sister who had a little girl last year - she has no desire for any more children ever so was able to choose pink for that reason. If it had turned out that I was having a boy, she would have given these things to someone else and we would have bought our own but even then I find myself drawn to the girly/boyish ones rather than neutral things.

Life would indeed be dull without surprises - I was very surprised to find myself pregnant in the first place

pigpen

I am surprised to be pregnant too.. but it is taking a long while to adjust..

OrkneyStar

Apricot wrote: »

The reason I mentioned a bouncy chair and highchair is because mine have all come from my sister who had a little girl last year - she has no desire for any more children ever so was able to choose pink for that reason. If it had turned out that I was having a boy, she would have given these things to someone else and we would have bought our own but even then I find myself drawn to the girly/boyish ones rather than neutral things.

Life would indeed be dull without surprises - I was very surprised to find myself pregnant in the first place

Yeah, you are sensible re-using you sister's stuff, but there are folks who want new everything, in pink, even if they already have/can borrow other neutral things.
And yes, I was about to say, if you don't like surprises pregnancy can be a bit difficult lol (surprises good and bad!) x

OrkneyStar

pigpen wrote: »

I am surprised to be pregnant too.. but it is taking a long while to adjust..

Surely with the 10th, you would have got used to it by now lol x