Finding out the gender? Should I?

Question

I’m 14 weeks and 2 days pregnant with my first baby, and a lot of people that know have started to ask if I’ll find out the gender. 
I can’t decide if I want to or not but I’m pretty impatient, and my husband doesn’t really want to know. 
What are your suggestions and reasons you waited or found out?

Answer

It’s my first too, we have decided to not find out, I’m not going to say that I times I haven’t been tempted lol. I feel like we don’t get surprises as adults and I kinda like the idea of both me and hubby being able to have a surprise. I also think not knowing will give me more motivation with pushing and labour!

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I found out because 1. I hate surprises lol and 2. It made it more real for me! At first I didn’t care, just wanted a healthy baby but then when I started shopping for stuff I noticed how gendered everything is 🙄 like all the cute little baby boutiques I walked into only had flowery dresses or “mommy’s little man” onesies for example haha.

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I’ll be finding out. I’m having a hard time with pronouns now. I can’t go this whole pregnancy calling my tummy “baby,” and I refuse to say “it.” For me, I want to find a name early on. 
I think it’s beautiful and amazing when people hold out and make it a surprise. But I’m an obsessive planner who already has a baby boy. If I have a girl; I have WAY more shopping to do.

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I keep flip flopping. My husband would be fine waiting until birth.  If it's a girl she will get my last name and a boy will get my husband's.  I think i want to know now because I'm hoping for a girl and know I'll be disappointed a bit if it's a boy (like I'm thinking it probably is) only because of the name.
I am still happy no matter what but i think i would like time to get past the disappointment of losing a dream before the due date. And have lots of time bonding with baby and building new dreams.

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Thanks for everyone’s comments! It’s really helpful to get some other perspectives.

Finding out the gender? Should I?

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