Gender reveal parties?

[Cersaj]

AIBU to wonder who fills the balloons? I've had a few Facebook acquaintances upload videos of their reveal, and strangers' are always popping up in recommended stories, and they have these balloons filled with either blue or pink confetti which the couple burst to reveal their baby's sex.

I can't get my head around why people have these parties at all who puts the confetti into the balloons. Originally I thought the couple themselves did it to reveal to their family, but I've seen loads where the couple look nervous before bursting the balloons and are weeping with happiness afterwards. Is it all an act? Or is there a special job where a person can be hired to get the information and fill the balloons? Are midwives moonlighting as party planners?

Who is filling the balloons? Even Google has turned up no answers.

Iwas just coming on with my feminists hat on to say "sex reveal party surely?" Then I read @Cariadne's post and thought, yeah it's all pink and blue gendered malarkey. And probably the most self indulgent twaddle ever.

Yes, that's why I made sure to include sex in the body of my post, not gender. The concept of gender is utterly ludicrous and beyond damaging to the feminist movement. It doesn't exist, and I don't think we should humour stereotypes by pretending they align to some fantasy concept of gender.

But I was afraid that titling the post 'sex reveal party' might make people thing it was a bit dodgy...

People don't give a fuck if the baby is going to be a boy or girl- they are equally happy with either outcome

That's true, I don't care. But if my friend wanted to have a party to announce it, I'd be happy for them to do so. I always like a party with friends anyway!

And if I was just bitching about the whole thing behind her back or online, I wouldn't be much of a friend..

We had a private scan at 16 weeks and the clinic provided us a canon that revealed. We did not find out and we found out later that day with out parents and siblings. The canon let out biodegradable confetti! We did not have a party or accept any gifts, we simply shared a moment with our immediate families.

We also did not care if it was a girl or boy but wanted to find out as I had kept a lot of items from our first child.

I'm not an attention seeker, I didn't post it all over social media for likes, I didn't do it to get more gifts and my first child hasn't had a cake smash.

I also don't judge people who want to share their excitement about pregnancy for whatever reason with their friends and families! Not sure how anyone can find this so offensive as it's not hurting anyone!

@BumandChips so they'd of been less excited if you had of had all those things? Sad that

Yes that’s exactly what I said.

Don’t be ridiculous.

They just take a scan along to a party shop, hand it to the cashier, and ask them to supply them with the appropriate balloon, surely

I love the idea that all party shops now require a qualified sonographer to interpret scans correctly

what if he doesn't look like a Toby

I really don't think this factors into most people's decision-making when it comes to choosing a name.

While we didn't tell people our DCs' names until they were born, we'd decided on both their names well before they were born.

I think this is pretty common.

When they arrived, they looked like babies, so it was all good.

It is ridiculous because babies DO NOT HAVE A FUCKING GENDER!!!!

Hahahaaaa there's always one 😂