Revealing the gender to partner after scan

[Cherryrainbow]

Because of the no partners allowed rule for the scan I was just wondering how people are planning to give their partner the news or how they have told them, to get some ideas please x

A lot more sonographers are happy to put it on a piece of paper at the moment so that you can find out at home.

I was wondering this too!! So gutted my husband won't be able to find out with me. My hospital won't write it down either as that is their policy so want to think of a fun way to tell him. When is your scan op?

Mines on the 11th. So a bit of time to organise something. I've been feeling pretty low lately myself so I thought maybe if I did something a bit special it might be a nice for both of us x

The sonographer was so lovely at my scan. She put a blue bit of paper inside an envelope with a big question mark on the front! Opened it with DP as soon as I got back to the car!

If you want to find out your baby's sex together why not wait until the birth? I did both (didn't find out, then did in next pregnancy) I found not knowing until the birth to be so much more special.

I had my scan a few weeks ago. When I got home I sat my little boy and hubby down in the garden, showed them the scan picture and just said “this is your new baby..... brother”. Very simple but also a very special moment.

Mines the 11th too, apparently my hospital is allowing people to FaceTime their partners, so hopefully We will still find out together.
I did order a kit online that requires a pinprick of blood, it detects the male hormone. I did this at 8 weeks and was told it's a boy but I don't know how much I really trust it, but if they do say it's a girl we will definitely be shocked

I'm hoping by the time my dh may be able to come but not sure what I would do.. I'm not one for a huge deal or gender reveal etc.

How about..

• attach a coloured peg or a sticker or something on the edge of the scan
• ask them to write it down and open together
• if you can or want to get a baby item which is for that sex like pink/blue
• depends on your relationship but could just slide it into the conversation and see if he twigs
• have a date night, maybe cook or bake something with colour hidden like pink or blue icing or something
• just tell him outright.. You want a healthy baby regardless how you tell him it will be special
• get a baby name book and put a bookmark in the page of girls or boys names

I had my gender scan before lockdown. And my husband decided he didn’t want to come and wanted me to surprise him after!! (This was an extra 16 week one, he came to 20 week). We bought golf balls that explode with the colour. You get from Amazon and they send both colours anyway. So I just put the right one down and sat with my daughter to watch him do it. Was really exciting!! Xx

I just bought a Teddy from the hospital (a pink one) and gave it to him.

Great ideas and experiences there ladies!

I had a chat with my bf about what he would like to do as we have my son the same day. We decided to do a kind of mini party - we will put some decorations up in the morning and ill make cakes with my son. When we get back from the scan I'll tell them x

Mine is Wednesday! My plan is that as we will need to go shopping that day anyway, i’ll go to tesco after the scan and pick up a little baby outfit that I can then present to him (one of these babygrow types that says son, daughter on it etc)

Mine was last week Monday!

Same as other posters, the Sonographer was lovely and straight away offered if we wanted to have it written on a piece of paper (which was a really cute announcement style paper with a stork on it).

After my appointment OH and I went home, then for a nice walk and we've got a great view of London on a spot we like, so we opened the envelope together there. I actually felt this was more special than being told in the scan room.

Good luck to everyone having scans. I know I was a nervous wreck beforehand. Everyone I saw was comforting and kind. No waiting around and in and out really quickly.

We had our this weekend, I asked for the gender in an envelope and had the scan with my eyes mostly shut. My step mum filled the balloon with the right confetti colour and we popped it together! The best feeling! Amazing weekend!

Also my sonograoher was amazing and was super kind, told me when to close my eyes and was super sympathetic with my idea and wanting to find out together. That was at Window to the Womb and they made it very special 💙

I found out at my scan last Thursday - the sonographer wrote it on a piece of paper and put in an envelope. When I got home we asked our 4 year old to open the envelope and read it out! So it was lovely - particularly because the sonographer had written in capital letters, and the G threw my daughter as she has been learning writing lower case It all added to the fun!

@TKAAHUARTG agreed, so lovely to have my husband tell me what we'd had after I'd given birth

My hospital is refusing to write it down so I m getting a confetti cannon in each colour so he can pop one when he gets home and I can take a picture of him doing it to show family, my scans not for 4 weeks but not hopeful anything will have changed by then.

Most will write it in a card or something at the moment so you can open it together.

Wait till birth, it will lovely to find out together 💕 32 weeks pregnant and cant wait to find out what we are having in 8 weeks. :)

@TKAAHUARTG
I agree! It's one of the best surprises! Even when we were having weekly scans from 30 weeks it was lovely just guessing if baby was a little boy or girl!
OP if you want to find out together I recommend this 😃

I'll check if they will write it down so we can open it home together if not I'll just have to tell the Mr and little mr when I get home lol.

Sorry ladies I don't have the patience to wait until birth! I'd like to pick names and plan the nursery once we know what's what, plus I can go crazy buying cute outfits and stuff haha x

@TKAAHUARTG Obviously waiting is always an option but this thread is quite clearly aimed at those who want to find out before the birth for whatever reason.
I didn’t find out with my first two, but for this one I will because my older DC have asked me to find out. It will also help sort bedrooms etc

Sex not gender.

We had our scan right at the start of lockdown. I just told him in the car on the way home from the scan. He was far more concerned with whether the baby was healthy/scan had picked up any abnormalities (which thankfully it hadn't). Then we just sent parents and siblings the scan photo on whatsapp with a "say hello to your granddaughter/niece" message. But neither of us are one's for gender reveals in general!