Pick only one name
Buy sex specific clothes
Decorate the nursery
Bonding with a specific baby
We hate green and yellow, P-E-W!
To annoy relatives
Why not?
Reasons to wait:
Like the surprise
Help make the last few weeks of pregnancy bearable, not knowing
To annoy relatives
We've gone back and forth on this issue. I think Adam really wants to know, and if you know Adam he is such a worry wart. It would be one less thing for him to stress over. I don't know...maybe we'll change our minds...maybe we'll find out and not tell anyone who lives "up north".
Thoughts, questions, ideas...
6 comments:
Gee, I feel bad about the green and yellow - guess I can scrap the "special gift" I was making for baby!
People will be supportive with whatever you two choose. I know suspense can be eye twirling!...Good luck!
It reminds us of Wisconsin...
now, we don't mean small things, but we are certainly not going to be able to decorate the room...at all.
There is nothing wrong with Green and Yellow! I will be sure to buy lots of those colors for the baby!
Kathy V.
You better tell us "people up north". We will definitely want to know! Do we still have time to guess the sex at Christmas?
Love, Julie, Kreg, Audra, Kurtis and Olivia
Guesses shall abound at Christmastime! We won't find out until the week we come back anyways. (If the baby isn't a little stinker, that is...) Again, I must stress that we are still a little on the fence about finding out!
As for telling people, Adam isn't sure he wants anyone else to know so bring it up with your brother!
alrightie, this topic gets me all hot and bothered, as i encounter it almost every day at work. whew. deep breth in and deep breath out. before i begin, please remember that the statements below are soley my opinions and thoughts.
ok, trying to be brief, if you do find out, please only tell people and tell yourselves if the U/S tech is SURE of what he/she is seeing (assuming you are not having a level III U/S with a perinatologist or amniocentesis-as i believe those are the only FOR SURE ways to find out the sex). there is a lot of disappointment in people's eyes when they are expecting one sex and then at the birth, it is discovered that they had the other sex. it happens more often than i think people realize.
if the sex is known (correctly), i agree that decorating and planning and naming and color scheming can be done before the birth and ease anxiety. and if it would help make one or both of you less anxious...
personally, i love surprises and i can hardly wait for that moment when i deliver our child and john or i look and see and announce to each other 'we have a daughter' or 'we have a son'. don't get me wrong, that moment of birth (and all the minutes and days following) are still special, even if the sex is known. seeing that little person is a magical moment in and of itself and in that sense, it will still be a surprise.
in summary, though, i agree with meg, in that you two need to do what you WANT to do and what you feel you NEED to do.
ok so, i guess i being brief was not my strongpoint tonight.
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