How did you decide whether to know gender

[chickychicchic]

Hey everyone

Going to be TTC this month.
dh already has DC and he assumed we would find out the gender
This will be our only DC due to my age etc so I'm unsure if I want the surprise element or not. Also like the idea of being able to plan for the gender as I like sewing so could make things but also think would I have the energy when pregnant and working full time??

How did you decide?

I also ‘knew’ I was having a girl, I didn’t want to be shocked if it was a boy. (I had a girl.)

Ive done it both ways, didn't find out with DC1, did find out at 22 weeks with DC2.

If there were a third, I definitely wouldn't find out again until the birth. I wish I hadn't been so impatient the second time around.

We found out because if it had been a boy we would have needed to arrange a bris (circumcision in Jewish culture).

we found out - same reason as sheleg, but also we put on a party on the first Friday night after the birth, which was pretty exhausting, but at least it meant we could ask everyone to come to that rather than hassling us for a first hold of the baby.