To think this woman is being ridiculous re ‘ruined’ gender reveal

[Bouncingbelle]

Just that really. I obviously don’t have much else going on in my life cos her attitude has really riled me!

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/it-devastated-me-bristol-mums-4172602?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

I didn't realise the parents didn't know the sex of the baby, I've always thought it was just a reveal to family and friends.

I think they might be looking for some monetary compensation for this, why else would you go to the papers?

The whole concept of gender reveal parties make me cringe, but pardon my ignorance I thought it was all about revealing the gender to family and guests, not the expectant couple.

I thought this too, the party was to reveal the gender to the family. Maybe the sonographer thought the same and so revealed it to the parents as normal.

What a complete oxygen thief.

Bleurgh. What a silly cow.

Gender reveal parties. A naff concept from the USA. No-none, apart from the parents, gives a shit.

When I saw the headline I genuinely thought the baby had died or something. They found out the gender of their baby before their friends? Does everything have to be a show now?

Well, you can't fix stupid. She needs a reality check. After experiencing not one but two still births, my definition of "devastated" is very difference from hers.

Honestly!! What a vapid girl!

As I understand it the parents are given the sex in a sealed envelope which they then take to people providing stuff for such parties e.g a pink or blue cake covered in white icing so the sex is revealed when it is cut, or a box of pink or blue helium filled balloons which rise up when the box is opened.

No one gives a fuck about the sex of your third child. Gender reveals and baby showers feel grabby and attention seeking and I avoid like the plague.

I was told at 20 weeks pregnant my baby was too poorly to survive and would Likely die before birth. This woman is a disgrace in my opinion and needs to get some perspective.

I should add, it was later discovered this particularly consultant had misdiagnosed the baby and had put us through the hell of days and weeks thinking I was going to give birth to a sleeping baby. My pregnancy and baby have being doing well since.

This woman should consider herself lucky in the grand scheme of things. Does she watch the news?
And being abusive to a skilled NHS worker who made a mistake is darn right wrong.
Her and her partner look like a pair of chavs too.

Obviously gutted she isn’t having a girl.

I both envy and pity them for having lives in which this is genuinely the biggest thing they have to worry about.

Aside from the common misunderstanding about the difference between sex and gender (as a PP has pointed out), I honestly can't see the fascination and jubilating about finding out when there are only two variables and (except in very rare cases where there is a gene in the family for a serious condition that only affects males), neither of those options is better or worse than the other.

It's not like Deal Or No Deal, where people are joining hands 'for luck', crossing their fingers and biting their lips, desperate to see if their box contains a penny or a quarter of a million pounds. It's akin to buying an off-plan new-build on a big development of identical houses and then throwing a party to reveal whether your home ends up having an odd or an even number.

I thoroughly agree that this would be truly devastating to couples unable to have any baby or whose baby has extremely serious health problems - seeing people with a (hopefully) healthy, much-wanted baby on the way throwing such a tantrum about finding out what the baby happens to have between his or her legs.

Why do they allow halfwits like this column inches? Surely printing this extremely insalubrious non story let's them think their nonsense is newsworthy...

Whoever took that call should have laughed them out of the room.

Also sure she was really crying and tantrumming because it wasn’t the gender she wanted!

Reads like she wants someone to reimburse her for her party.

Gee go to the papers and do sad face photos! . Most of us just have a whinge on MN over stuff like this (not that is ever have a gender reveal party).

This woman is a disgrace in my opinion and needs to get some perspective.

This.

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Poor 11 year old Archie who was also ‘heartbroken’ when he heard about the premature reveal a few days later!

Agree this woman is being ridiculous and spoilt, but some of the comments and name calling on here are disgusting.

This woman is over reacting and in the grand scheme of things it's not the biggest upset to happen. At the same time this whole lockdown and being pregnant probably has played up her emotions etc

Personally I don't see anything wrong with the gender reveal parties. It's handy if you have a bigger family and friendship group so that rather then spend half the day on the phone and potentially being accused of favoring one side of the family over another or be trapped in a phone conversation to relatives you don't like to keep the family peace

The woman looks like trailer park trash to me. 👌🏼

I can’t stand these gender reveal parties 🤮 it’s going to be 50/50 🙄

It’s not going to be a fucking alien is it?

There’s only one “stupid bitch” here and it sure as hell isn’t the sonographer.

I’d like to think the pictures on the website linked , showing what story is next, show just what a self obsessed moron she is and maybe will provide her with a bit of perspective .
She’s gone to the paper expecting sympathy and she’s made herself look like an utter cretin, served her right