Gender reveal nonsense

[my3bears]

This whole make a big thing with a gender reveal - glitter, balloons, cakes with coloured centres etc

Then the parents act all surprised 😱

Isn't the biggest 'gender reveal' just to wait until they are born???

This really flipping irritates me and it's so American.

Just watched the LaBrant Family gender reveal (it came up on my timeline..why do I click on things that irritate me 😂) Boy it made my teeth itch!!

Aibu 🙄😂 anyone with me? Don't even get me started on baby showers....

Penny that's why I asked the sonographer "How sure are you?" She replied "There's a definite scrotum!" It still makes me chuckle 7 years on!

Agree totally with the OP. Tacky, tacky, tacky.

So I am not alone and typically English 😂

Every baby is a blessing and i am conscious for some becoming a parent is harder than others.

But it's not about that. It's social media spectacular that's made, the wanting to outdo someone else with their style of announcement. It puts pressure on people unnecessarily. I know I should scroll past and often I do but last night I was really irritated.

Here's what set my teeth itching 😂

The other thing is that sometimes the scan is wrong eg think girl but actually boy

And there is evidence that when this happens it is a correlation for pnd because mother has spent months referring to unborn child as one thing and then doesn’t feel that the baby is actually hers

Oh and I did find out the sex of all 3 of mine before they were born for various reasons 🤪

Massively against both gender reveal parties and baby showers. Having suffered a still-birth, and also know others who have and very late term feel that they are hugely tempting fate. I can’t bring myself to celebrate until the baby (whosevers it is) is actually here

These remind me of the people who video their engagement and pretend to act all surprised.

It's simply people wanting to record every moment of their life for good or bad, but... Of course there's always the ones who take every opportunity just to be the centre of attention. Best to ignore.

This is one of the things I simply file under "not my kind of thing" and move on. If it makes someone happy... meh.

I have a friend who had a gender reveal party and someone filmed the reveal. When the sex was revealed he (the dad) can clearly be heard on the video saying 'oh, fuck' as it wasn't the sex he wanted!! (Will add, now baby is here he absolutely adores them)

That said, I think it's lovely if people want to celebrate anything and everything. I love a party and think anything that makes people happy goes. Didn't do a gender reveal myself but we did find out the sex and let people know

@Whiskeywithwater sorry for your loss. Intended as s lighthearted post and I missed that. I'm sorry. But I know what you mean having suffered early losses myself xxx

I think what other people do with regards to their pregnancy, be it gender reveal or baby shower, is entirely up to them.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Their other child arrives in a carriage pulled by a fucking Shetland pony. This goes beyond gender sex reveal freakery!

My3bears, that video is awful, but it's mostly because they're self-obsessed twats, not because of the gender reveal. What a pair of fools.

Agree. So very tacky and pointless.

@memaymamo 😆🤣 I think those very words were muttered! Couldn't believe what I was seeing

Yes they’re tacky and agree with PPs that I hate the pink or blue thing.

memaymamo ... totally agree .. also I haven't called anyone a "fool" for ages .. it's going to be my word of the day today .. !! And "foolish" . ... an even better word ! 

people have less and less to celebrate in this world.

I’m puzzled by this ^

What have people had to stop celebrating that’s being used to justify the existence of sex parties?

To have a party for revealing the sex of an unborn baby is utter drivel. So are big productions/announcements about it. Social media bollocks. Attention-seeking rubbish.

Don't care for baby showers, either.

I only managed 40 secs of the video before my teeth were so on edge they were screaming for mercy!

Gender reveals just aren't my thing. If it brings someone joy, I'm fine with that but I wouldn't want one and find them a bit of a non-event.

I've only seen this on youtube, never IRL. I would go to one of there was good food on offer, really wouldn't care or be excited for the 'reveal'. The vloggers I have seen doing it all know the sex beforehand, the reveal is for monetizing friends and family.

Fgs you should horrible and miserable.
Stop just stop.

I'm with you OP.
Pointless shit that seems to cost a small fortune.

It's just a bit of fun because the parents are excited.Dont stress it really doesn't affect you.

YANBU
I found out the sex of my baby at the 20 week scan just because I’m nosey. But I find gender reveal parties and big announcements on Facebook cringeworthy and very self-obsessed.