To think it's inconsiderate to do gender reveal on Christmas Day

[FestiveOstrich]

A distant relative of mine has announced they will be doing their gender reveal on Christmas Day. It's not their first child and they previously announced their engagement on Christmas Day too.

AIBU to think they should do it another day so Christmas remains about the whole family?

Maybe you could all reveal your gender at the same time so it's not all about them. I suggest just telling each other and taking everyone's word for it, I've found family gets a bit funny about genitalia at the dinner table.

No one cares about anyone else’s babies sex reveal (the unborn are too young to decide their gender) so anyone who makes a thing of it is clearly a twat who doesn’t need any of my mental energy. Let them get on with it and ignore.

Other than the parents, who actually cares about the babies gender? If they want to make a big deal of it, then fine. And 5 mins later carry on with Christmas

Hope you don’t have to play any stupid games.

Well if everyone is already together...

I suppose if they have cleared with the host(s)

Is it a sibling & it's at your parents?

Like a pp mentioned I'd find it really bloody annoying if they were planning on roping everyone into some kind of game for the reveal like you see on tik tok and Facebook and the like. Think at that point they'd definitely be inconsiderate and making Christmas about themselves.

However if its literally just an announcement where they state the sex, get all the 'aww congrats' and then everyone goes back to Christmasy fun then I don't think its that big a deal.

This is my as diplomatic as I can be answer since I think the whole sex reveal thing is bloody stupid on any day of the year really 😂

Pre the stupid over the top gender reveal balloon/cake/game/canon etc., it was very normal at big family get togethers (like Christmas day) to ask other people about significant events in their lives (like pregnancy). It was be very common at this point to ask, "Do you know what your having?" and for the mum-to-be to proudly announce boy/girl/waiting until the birth.

A family event is a very normal time to tell loved ones about a pregnancy.

I think you are misreading my post.

This.

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Babies, yes; they are lovely and cute and a blessing.

Fussy, self-obsessed, narcissistic gender reveals - nope.

’That’s nice dear. Now let me go and check on the pigs and blankets’’

You'll make an excellent mumsnet style mother in law some day