Hello to all the lovely readers and advice givers! I am currently 19 weeks pregnant and my husband and I find out the sex of our precious baby in a couple of days. I am asking for experiences in finding out the sex of a baby. We have just spend the last 2 years trying to conceive & with countless diagnosis, fertility specialist appointments and scans after a miscarriage, ovarian torsion & emergency surgery resulting in my left ovary being removed-the whole journey so far has been, how can I put it, unromantic and quite clinical. We are going to ask the person doing the scan to write it down on a piece of paper so we can go out to dinner and reveal it together, just us two. Has anyone got any ideas on how we can make this special - I've seen people do this & get balloons sent to the restaurant, etc, so how does this work? As they would have to know the sex to organise balloons. Ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you so much.
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We chose not to find out the sex of our babies but my favourite gender reveals are where the dad knows and gets to tell mum to be in his own special way whether it's balloons, cupcakes, written on a blackboard or my favourite - wrapping up a little gender specific outfit for Bub to wear on their first trip home x
Congrates on your pregnancy. It doesnt matter if you find out the sex or not. Its still going to be a surprise at the birth when you see your baby for the first time. All the best.
Get them to write it down seal it in an envelope, see if there's some place nearby that might help you out with some cupcakes or something with pink or blue baked inside. Then you can share a cake together and discover the sex of the baby. I would totally help you out if I lived nearby.
Take an envelope to the ultrasound.
Get it written down and placed in envelope.
Take envelope to florist and ask if they can put pink or blue balloons in a box for a gender reveal.
Or
Get the florist to put blue or pink confetti inside a black helium filled balloon.
Then video yourselves popping it. The pink or blue confetti will burst everywhere.
We had a similar experience with 3 years of trying to conceive and going through IVF. Our obstetrician told us at 12 weeks he could clearly see the gender and my Husband and I both immediately just said yes tell us....looking back I wish I'd done something special. I would have done a gender reveal cake just us 2 or given $100 to a friend and asked them to buy you girl or boy stuff that you and your hubby could open together.