Will/did you find out the gender? Why?

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I'm torn. I want to find out so my brain can stop flip-flopping between calling it a he or a she, but I wish we could find out without telling everybody else. I just don't like things that say "it's a boy" or "it's a girl", and I want to enter neutral things for the second kid. My husband is all for finding out, but he will want to share it with everyone and I just don't want all the gender specific stuff crap. I hated how everybody assumed I loved pink lace and ruffles when I was a little girl, and I don't want similar assumptions being made for our child.

We had genetic testing done, so I know that all the baby's chromosomes are normal, but at the time I asked them to withhold the gender. I just keep waffling about calling to ask for it.  I know that in six months it's not going to matter anyway, and I know that I can't protect our child from all the gender stereotypes and expectations of the world, but I think I'm just not ready yet.

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I CANT stand not knowing things. I get anxiety and i cannot for the life of me wait to find out. Lol.

Be that as it may, im still going to be gender neutral when shes born.

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Because I like to be prepared for everything. And this is my second.

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I couldn't even wait the 16 weeks to find out why would I want to wait the full 40. I'm going to find out either way why wouldn't I find out now. Especially bc I wanted to start shopping/ work on the nursery

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The reason I did find out is because we have two boys and this is our last baby and she's due so close to Christmas so we wanted to have everything ready. If it wasn't a girl I would have had everything but it is a girl so we had to get a lot of clothes. We aren't going to have a baby shower so we needed to get everything on our own and we have a tight budget.

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I have to find out. I want to name him/her while he/she's inside me and buy things with their name on :)

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Nope. Not finding out.  Didn't with our first. I like the surprise and that way not everything is pink or blue.

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I want to find out in advance so I can know if my gut feeling is right lol! And if im not right, i can have time to seriously consider boy names--ive been so sure its a girl that i havent given any boy names any serious thought. It's driving me crazy to wait lol, but I shouldn't hve much longer to find out! I'm 16 weeks :)

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I didn't find out with my first 2. I was adamant that we were not finding out. I had a lot of fun with the baby pole seeing everyone's guesses. It was fun picking names and I found no issues with buying baby stuff. There's lots of gender neutral and I knew I would be using again with at least another baby. Anyway with my second I was gonna find out but my SO didn't want to and I was fine with that.  He didn't have an option with our first so fair is fair.  And with my 3rd I am going to find out. I want to experience the excitement of looking at the screen and having a name picked out before hand... plus I'm going to redecorate the kids room this simmer so the gender of the baby will impact how girly it gets to be☺

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Hard to find gender neutral items and my other kids wanted to know more than me lol