Gender reveal party.

[Winnyp6174]

Hello,

Me and my partner are planning a gender reveal party for August.

Does anyone know of any good places/websites that we can get good decorations and supplies from in the UK??

I think your party sounds really fun OP, have a great time and enjoy it!

I had a lovely baby shower with DS1, everyone together eating cake and being excited, it was a lovely time in a pregnancy that was otherwise high risk and painful!

I wouldn't worry about a few naysayers trying to piss on your parade, I think a few people must have stumbled accidentally onto the pregnancy board from elsewhere (and should go back there rather than being unnecessarily hurtful to someone who is pregnant and potentially feeling a bit vulnerable as a result).

Oh, and I 100% knew that I was having boys as I had the NIPT which looks at the baby's DNA in both pregnancies. It's not uncommon nowadays.

Enjoy and congratulations!

nasty witches???

You need to take a good looooong hard look in the mirror, YouJustDoYou.

I'm with the previous poster, I think @Sux2buthen the people who think this is "horrendous" and "grim" are clearly living some very sheltered lives. Turn the news on fgs there's some really grim stuff out there to get wound up about!!

Maybe not to everyone's tastes but if you don't like it surely just keep it to yourself?

Op try amazon! Let's face it there is nothing that cannot be ordered from Amazon

It’s sex, you really mustn’t be squeamish and use the proper word.

jelly I think gender stereotyping is very grim indeed. Clearly you don't. Clearly the OP doesn't. But a lot of MNers do.

It's not about 'taste'. It's about bringing up children within the confines of sex role stereotyping and the implications of that. You think this is all very benign, but it's just the very first part of the subtle drip drip drip of sex role stereotypes that this baby will be faced with.

OP ignore the rude comments. There are plenty of lovely people on here who don't seek to criticise every single thing other people post about and there's lots of support available. Some posters seem to think they have to dive in and be nasty about anything they deem to be beneath them without accounting for the fact that we don't all like the same things.

I have found ebay great for party supplies in the past so take a look on there!

@VapeVamp12 I was about to say the exact same thing!! It’s a shame that the AIBU nastiness has crept onto this board.
@Winnyp6174 eBay would be good to start, you can get all sorts on there. I’m sure if you have a google, people may have blogged on the subject and you could get some inspiration. Good luck and have a wicked time 🙂

If you have a Range or B M bargains near you it might be worth a look there. I know our Range had things for a baby shower as my friend bought a load of stuff from there for her party.

Users, what is wrong with some of you?

OP did NOT ask for your opinion of whether to have sex/gender reveal party or not She can have any party she wants! It is also none of you concern if OP wants to identify her baby with particular sex.

I second Amazon and Ebay for any party stuff. Great ideas there.
OP, enjoy your pregnancy and the party!

I don't get why people are saying it's sex not gender. Statistically, the baby is likely to have a gender and sex that correspond. So statistically, there is a very good chance that you ARE revealing the gender.

And there's no point saying but what if they're the % that don't identify with their sex. It's such a rare occurrence that it's if anything more likely that the sonographer made a mistake (especially if you think it's a girl!).

So either you think that a small chance of being wrong matters and you can't reveal sex OR gender, or you think a small chance of being wrong doesn't matter, and you can go ahead and assume that your child is likely enough to have had correct ultrasound sex identification, and likely enough to identify with their sex, so you can reveal sex AND gender.

Anyway, Aldi, etsy and ebay. Etsy do fun printable games.

I don't get why people are saying it's sex not gender. Statistically, the baby is likely to have a gender and sex that correspond. So statistically, there is a very good chance that you ARE revealing the gender.

Exactly this!

People in this board are talking like 1 in 2 babies born don’t identify with their assigned “sex”. Let OP have a lovely party

What's really exciting is not finding out the sex till it's born. I highly recommend it. I had 2 I didn't know the sex of and 1 I did, it is by far and away more exciting to not know till they are born - imo, obviously.

Congratulations on your baby. eBay is a good place to start.

I don't get why people are saying it's sex not gender. Statistically, the baby is likely to have a gender and sex that correspond. So statistically, there is a very good chance that you ARE revealing the gender.

Because this is a much wider problem. Sex and gender are not the same thing and reinforcing the same old bill shit before a baby is even born is compounding the issues. Self indulgent, tacky parties are the tip of the ice berg, but it doesn't lessen the problems they cause.

Op, do what you want but please use sex and not gender.

I don't get why people are saying it's sex not gender. Statistically, the baby is likely to have a gender and sex that correspond. So statistically, there is a very good chance that you ARE revealing the gender.

Assuming all this is quite transphobic.

Sex is biology and it isn't assigned at birth, that is utter nonsense.

sex: male/female, boy/girl, man/woman (biology, objective)

gender: masculine/feminine (society, subjective)

I really hate when the mumsnet brand of feminism leaks on to other boards

Jesus wept, the OP was only asking if anyone knew where to get good party stuff from, not a bloody lecture on the gender/ sex debate. That's a thread for a different board.
Everyone knows what the OP meant and to hijack it is just rude.

OP Theres a good party stall on our market that has most events covered. Maybe have a look if you have a market near you.

Enjoy your pregnancy and have fun at your reveal.

OP, given that you say you're planning the party for August, I'm guessing you haven't had your twenty-week scan yet. Bear in mind that at some hospitals, the sonographer will refuse to write down the baby's sex for you and put it in an envelope. It may sound harsh, but we've reached the stage where many people nowadays seem to think that the purpose of the anomaly scan is to determine the baby's sex! I've heard stories of couples pestering the sonographer about the sex while he/she is trying to concentrate, getting angry with the sonographer if he/she can't tell the sex, and even leaving the scan early without checking to see if the baby is okay after they've been told the sex. Some hospitals have decided that enough is enough, and that it needs to be made clear that the anomaly scan is a medical procedure, not a treat.

Another thing to remember is that some hospitals will refuse to tell you the baby's sex at all. This may be because there is a high percentage of sex-selective abortions in the area, or because of potential lawsuits (there was actually a case a few years ago where parents of a healthy baby boy sued the hospital because the sonographer had mistakenly told them he would be a girl!). All in all, I wouldn't go overboard on the party planning, as there's no guarantee you will be able to find out the baby's sex at all at this stage.

I'm not a feminist, I just like accuracy, so sex, not gender. HTH.

I have been informed by my teenagers you should never assume someone's gender 🤷🏻‍♀️

We found out whether we had a boy or girl once baby was born and we rang people, I think we even out a notice in the local newspaper!
Awww them were the days

I'm sure there's a point to be made here but I stopped listening when people started needlessly insulting someone who asked for tips on where to buy party supplies, fact or not.

"Nobody cares but you and your partner" - that is utter bollocks, the first thing everyone has asked me is "do you know what you are having?" Enjoy your party OP, not got websites for buying but some lovely ideas on Pinterest and also on the blog www.hwtm.com. Also usually the pregnancy board is very supportive, maybe the perpetually nasties from AIBU have smelt blood and made their way over

Nobody cares but you and your partner" - that is utter bollocks, the first thing everyone has asked me is "do you know what you are having?

Yeah but they're just making polite conversation. It doesn't actually matter to anyone else what it is.

I've always used a website called partyrama for any party supplies. I just checked and they do have a gender (sex) reveal party section. I have always found there prices good and the quality of items good as well.