'Gender reveal' without blue or pink

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Our reception aged daughter has seen a 'gender reveal' party with balloons and is excited to find out the sex of the baby with a party. We're not doing the whole party reveal, especially as she's of the age where we're having to remind her that blue isn't just for boys and pink isn't just for girls.

Regardless, we do want to include her and surprise her with something so has anyone seen any fun little ways of sharing the sex of the baby without using blue/pink?

I saw one video where a helium balloon with boy or girl on it was in a box wrapped up like a present. The sibling opened the box so the balloon then rose up and out.

You could do a springtime theme with the Easter decorations that are out atm featuring little ducks and lambs and stuff, it's possible to put a note or a stuffed animal in a balloon for the reveal too, it could say little brother or little sister.

@Cheetocat That's a cool idea :)

OP you could take it one step further and do an Easter egg hunt and when your DD has found all of the eggs she can have a present and a card signed from her new little brother or sister :)

Pair of matching t-shirt... Big sister and little sister/brother

Why do people do this “reveal” thing? Can’t anybody wait for the lovely surprise when the baby arrives?
Do you tell your DC what’s in their Christmas present a few months in advance too?

[quote TheBirdintheCave]@Cheetocat That's a cool idea :)

OP you could take it one step further and do an Easter egg hunt and when your DD has found all of the eggs she can have a present and a card signed from her new little brother or sister :)[/quote]
I like this! Or you could have bigger/different colour egg, put a note inside and reseal with some melted chocolate?

Babies aren't Christmas presents.

HTH

I usually hate gender reveals but as a means of getting a small sibling excited about new baby’s arrival I think we can cut the snark, surely? I know a lot of people who didn’t find out about the sec of DC1 but did for DC2 to help make it more real for their preschooler DC1.

OP I think the Easter hunt is lovely.

I think if DD wants it doing something not using pink/blue is nice - above suggestions all good. Something using a boy doll or a girl doll maybe?

@Echobelly

I think if DD wants it doing something not using pink/blue is nice - above suggestions all good. Something using a boy doll or a girl doll maybe?

I think this seems like a good idea

Tbh we never did any big reveal. It's ok to tell your children something like: other people do that but we don't 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Pair of matching t-shirt... Big sister and little sister/brother

I like this one :-)

Can you take her to your scan? or book a private scan (if funds allow) and take her with you? the radiographers make quite a deal out of telling you, and then she can actually see the baby too

Are you American OP?

Eventually people will say 'girl' isn't just for females and 'boy' isn't just for males.

Point being; its not the serious

Never done one or never bothered op

But the egg hunt and a tshirt inside an eg at the end matching sounds brilliant

No, I'm not American. I'm not sure where she's seen it but she kept going on about being excited about a big party and we pop the balloons to see if it's blue or pink. I told her we're not doing that.

As I said, we don't like the idea of a massive show revealing the sex of the baby. I've had HG and not spent much time with her over the last few months as a result so we want to try and encourage a bond with the baby now. We want to avoid growing resentment from my HG plus new sibling if we can do some things to try to curb it.

Some really lovely ideas, thank you!

@Mulhollandmagoo

Can you take her to your scan? or book a private scan (if funds allow) and take her with you? the radiographers make quite a deal out of telling you, and then she can actually see the baby too

A private scan could be good but I wouldn't take her to the anomaly scan, just in case there are any concerns found.

Yes the anomaly scan is coming up anyway so we won't go down that route, especially as we'll likely find out from the NHS scan.

@Babdoc

Why do people do this “reveal” thing? Can’t anybody wait for the lovely surprise when the baby arrives? Do you tell your DC what’s in their Christmas present a few months in advance too?

This

Amazon do scratchcards without blue or pink www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09C6DN4BD/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_MX4B8EEFGJ9QP0Y6ECPN?psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

@ronjobbins Maybe you should RTFT because I have explained that in a recent post.

I understand it's not for everyone like not everyone finds out what they're having themselves but it's personal preference.

@Cakecakecheese

Amazon do scratchcards without blue or pink ]]

This is a lovely little gesture.

I'm split between this and the tshirts.

How about a present of her own (anatomically correct) baby doll to look after? Boy or girl baby as appropriate.

Or a book about a baby brother/sister.

If you know the name, you could do something around that instead?

If the balloons are key for her, and she can read a little ... Have 5 balloons. A couple have sweets inside, some have little letters inside (like small wooden ones, fridge magnets, Scrabble tiles). She collects the letters to spell out 'girl' or 'boy'. Puts lots of attention on her too :)

I did a "big sister" tshirt for pregnancy reveal to DH really cherish that tshirt. Used it again for reveal of baby 3

@Babdoc

Why do people do this “reveal” thing? Can’t anybody wait for the lovely surprise when the baby arrives? Do you tell your DC what’s in their Christmas present a few months in advance too?

Oh don't be so bloody miserable