I am currently 21 weeks pregnant and going for my morphology scan this Monday. From the beginning both hubby and I decided it would be very exciting and new to not find out if the baby is a boy or girl we are happy as long as baby's healthy. we already have a daughter & son and kept the main things a baby needs apart from clothes and other little things so we said we can go shopping after birth and buy whatever baby needs however I am a person who likes everything organized/neat freak and I get thoughts now that it's getting closer thinking I wont be organized with everything if I don't find out ..hubby is laid back and always tells me after the scan I will get used to it and I will not think about it as much and just enjoy that we have a healthy baby. So my question is if any mum's haven't found out and if they were glad or upset that they didn't?
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I waited didn't know the sex. It was very exciting and still had everything we needed because I bought gender neutral clothing anyway. I'm not really into the pink for girls blue for boys anyway :)
I have a two yr old son and we waited till we had him to find out. It was hard on me by the end I went 10days over and just wanted to know if it was a boy or girl. But saying that I loved the surprise and it was easy to just say to people we don't know rather then lying. I think next time round id want to find out but probably won't. Just buy gender neutral stuff for now & buy the boy/girl colours once you know, you can still be organised :-)
Congratulations!
Just thinking that 20 years ago there was no guarantee we'd find out the babies sex and sometimes it was wrong! We were not disorganised. No baby or parent suffered because we didn't know. It's like a Christmas present, half the fun was waiting to find out what you get!
Don't rely on what they say anyway - bub no 3 for me was scanned twice to be a girl so the pink all came out and then when 'she' arrived she was a boy :)
We didn't find out with our 3 daughters and wouldn't change it for the world. When you hear the doctor/midwife/your mum or hubby say 'ohh its a ____" they are the best 4 words you'll ever hear. We were given a lot of hand-me-down girls and boys clothes prior, I just organised the draws girls one side, boys the other and neutral in the middle. Then once bub was born I could just put away the gender that I didn't need.
I never found out with any of my 3 kids and totally don't regret it, such an amazing surprise ♥
Got told I was having a girl. Made the room pink with pretty stuff and filled the wardrobe with pretty dresses. Baby came... With a penis. I now wish I never found out as it was wrong anyway :)