gender reveal

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Hey lovely people,so I had a scan today which gave me the gender of the baby sealed in an envelope so it's a surprise for me and my partner even though I know it's early at 16+5 this is likely my only child as it's an IVF pregnancy so it's all a big deal to us and we want to make the most of it

My question is,with this lock down I can't see my family,as they live in London,I am on the south coast. I would love for the gender reveal to be a surprise for both me and partner but also friends and family,but what I would love most is to capture reactions of everyone.. Most don't even know I am pregnant!

Any ideas? What have you lot all done xx

The general vibe is showing one person the note in envelope, getting them to order the blackballoon with the right coloured confetti and me and my partner blowing it up and popping it whilst on zoom or facetime to others,but I'm not sure if you can record on zoom or if anyone has any other ideas anyway

Thanks x

Congratulations on your pregnancy, hope everything goes smoothly and you can enjoy the experience :)

You could do the reveal and record it - then play it for everyone and see there reactions
I know you can share pictures on zoom with the share screen- not sure about videos

Other people will be pleased for you whatever the gender I would hate to be expected to perform a wild reaction. It's going to be a boy or a girl it's not really going invoke much more than a happy smile or a yay from others?!? Why would you want to replay that over and over. This is too weird.

Ignore everyone making snide comments about doing a gender reveal. I understand how exciting this is for you and I think it's a lovely thing to do with your families.

I'd suggest getting someone to find out and order a confetti cannon or maybe a cake? You can get cakes where you slice in and its blue/pink.

We came back from our 20 week scan and told out families over coffee when we showed them the scan picture and rang/Facetimed those who weren't local.

This is said with kindness so I hope it doesn't sound awful, but whilst most people will have that surprised/super happy response when a couple announced they are expecting, most people don't have the same response to a gender/sex reveal.

Most people would have the same reaction whether it's a boy or a girl, and most of the time the reaction is smiles and 'how lovely'. It sounds like you envision the reveal to be some big surprise where everyone is super animated and you can capture their faces etc, and you might be disappointed (unless your family and friends tend to give big reactions to everything).

So the balloon company was a small business who lived close to us and I posted the envelope through the letter box 😊

Zoom worked really well today and my family and friends were over the moon and just as excited and thrilled as we were to find we was having a baby boy!

Hope all goes well with the planning x

@hayjt24 OH WOW A BOY!! Congratulations hun!! You'll be able to imagine what he's doing to look like, be like and how you're going to plan his nursery and clothes you want him to wear 🤭 so exciting! 💙 xx

EmilyG1989 aw thank you so much yes exactly its so exciting knowing finally 😊 xx

Congratulations @hayjt24 have you named your little boy yet?

This thread would be amusing with all of the "well I have this opinion and my undeveloped theory of mind means I'm projecting it upon the global population regardless of their creed, culture or personal experience and declaring it absolute fact" type statements. Except the op is a woman carrying the tiny person who will be the only child she raises, celebrating with her own family and friends who have supported her through the loss of her babies in the past and she's trying to inject some joy into a time which is difficult for any parent let alone one with a rocky road to motherhood. It's not "cringe" at all.

We done a socially distanced reveal outside our house today! We found out we are having a baby boy also IVF after having 3 miscarriages and trying for 5 years to give our little boy a sibling. Our friends and family have been amazing with their support so we wanted everyone to feel apart of our joy in the whole thing! With our first child, we had the surprise when he was born, this time we wanted to reveal because we feel so happy to finally be here!!!

We posted an envelope in a ladies house who makes the balloons and then picked it up this morning and our little boy popped it...it was perfect 🤩

Go for it OP, it’s nice to celebrate good news for a change xxx

Definitely the sort of route we are going now I think x

Sending you all the positivity for yours x

It wouldn’t be strange for us and friends and family

We don’t know if I will make it to term,we have previously miscarried ivf twins,the beauty in this is trying to celebrate all the moments we can as this is my only and last chance of having a baby ,also Covid,being off work etc x

Thank you,yes think this is along the lines of what we will do ,thanks for your reply x

I’ve actually trusted my brother with the info now and he is a massive joker but knows it will mean death if he screws it up hahah .just kidding but on a serious note ,I don’t care what the gender is ,it’s just to celebrate all the little things just in case,thanks for your reply x

Well you could open the envelope on a recorded zoom call and tell everyone right there? They could all have the champagne ready to pop??

Well most don’t even know I am pregnant yet so it will be a double whammy x

Ahhh congratulations,even I feel excited for you,regardless of gender ,glad it worked out ,and thanks I will have a nose to what I got locally x

Took the words right out of my mouth there xx thank you x

Ah I am so chuffed for you ,and so nice your little boy could be involved too,glad you got the dream come true after all the hardship xx

I think we are definitely doing a recorded reveal ,just waiting for the stuff to be delivered now x

Hey! Ignore people here who are being a bit mean, it’s not to my taste either but you do what you want to do 😊
Just popped on to say I saw someone I used to work with do one during lockdown and they did lollipops, looked like they posted them to everyone in on the video call and then everyone sucked them at the same time until their tongues went blue/pink. Kind of like a race between them all by the looks of it!
Congrats on your baby!

Not sure if you've already done your reveal, but I'm trying to think of ideas to do with my family over in the States. On Etsy I've found gender reveal scratch cards that you can have made. So thinking I might get some made for each family member were including in the reveal and post it to them, then we all can scratch it off together on Zoom etc.

Just another idea! Congrats btw!