to find out or not to find out?

Question

Sooooo I've always wanted to be surprised by my healthy baby's gender on the day baby is born. My husband is adamant he wants to know as soon as the doctors know. My mother also wants to know ASAP. I don't understand, there's literally no surprises in life anymore, and I know I'm not going to be surprised with a baby shower (no one ever tries to surprise me)... why can't I be surprised with this?? My husband has suggested gender revealing at the shower so people can get us gender appropriate stuff... but it's not a surprise if you tell everyone ahead of time! I'll be the only one surprised and I might not react well lol but it be overwhelmed....ugh I don't know 🤦

Answer

Don’t find out. I agree... not enough left to the imagination anymore. I think the age of social media makes us that much more impatient. My husband and I didn’t really care one way or another but we ended up finding out. Definitely wouldn’t have hated being surprised... 
Keep in mind... someone will always be upset with your decision. This is not life or death and the people who are upset will get over it when they meet that precious baby. 😊

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If this is your first baby, maybe it's a good idea to find out the sex, so you can get what you really need. Our first kid is a boy, our second one it's a girl, now we are expecting a third baby and we don't want to know the sex.

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I don’t want to know the gender, and I’ve always felt that way. Like you said, there are very few TRUE surprises in life so we need to leave some for ourselves! 
My husband was always argumentative about this before I got pregnant, saying he would need to know...but now that I’m pregnant he’s eased up. I even went to him to try to maybe compromise because I know how he felt about it (was thinking we could know and not tell anyone else) but he said that if that’s what I’ve always wanted to do, we should stick with it. I think seeing what I’m going through in pregnancy and also learning about what I will go through in labor has given him some perspective lol
 
I’m lucky because my mom never knew what she was having with both of her children, so she’s not going to say anything to me. I know I’m going to get blow-back from my husband’s family, but that’s definitely whatever lol and my husband always backs me up on things thankfully.

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Do what makes you feel comfortable. Don’t find out just because your mother wants to know, she’ll know soon enough.

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