To those who found out the sex of their baby...

[BarbieLovesKen]

I'm 18 + 5 on baby number 2.

I didnt find out with dd as the particular consultant I was with at the time doesnt tell people (think he got it wrong a few years back and has a policy or something..) so I didnt even give it any thought but my current consultant will tell and its driving me mad for months!!.

Initially we were definately, definately going to find out.

Then DHs brother's partner had a little boy a few weeks ago and the whole announcement of "its a boy!!" and excitment surrounding it really put me off. I began to think - if I find out will I regret not having this??.

On top of that, anyone who I told we would probably find out were shocked and were/ are all putting twopence in that we'll be sorry/ will ruin suprise.. blah blah... I dont particulary tend to care what people think but have to admit the negativity sort of put a dampner on it. Also, both grannys said they didnt want to know.

I have NO patience, am DYING to know who this little person moving around in me is, and thought it would help prepare dd whos 3.8 better if she knew she was getting a brother or a sister - I'm back to definately finding out again.. Im so indecisive.. just terrified I'll be sorry then...

Any experiences?

Sorry for rambling...

No its 82%......not bad!

First pregnancy - didn't find out and had ds. Mind you, everyone said we were having a ds (friends / family / strangers in town / lady on checkout in supermarket etc etc) so it wasn't a total shock when he was born.

Second pregnancy - found out at 20 week scan we were having dd. Was my fb status within a few hours. I loved finding out, it was even more exciting as we couldn't wait to meet our little girl .

Not too bad, tryingtobemary but I would probably have to get a couple to check!! And then burn the wrappers before DH found them!! Oh gawwwwd....
Meglet did you find it was a bigger deal second time around? I wasn't as bothered with DC1 I don't think.

everyone has told us all the way along (31weeks now) that we were having a DS - strangers, family, friends, everyone even my friend's 8 year old said about the early scans "It looks like a boy!", so we weren't surprised on a recent scan (having extra scans cos of diabetes) to see the ahem proof emphatically waving around on the screen!! couldn't have missed it, even the sonographer was laughing and saying "Well if you didn't want to know its too late now there he is!!" - we didn't care which way it went, just praying for health, but it is nice to now call him by name and not "it", and buy a few blue things I suppose no-one was surprised when we've been telling them - "well, you were right, its a boy..."

itsallsoscary as soon as we knew I was having dc2 we decided we had to find out the sex. Just because it seemed like fun and partly so I knew whether I needed to pass on the boys clothes from when we had ds.

I'm glad I stumbled across this too - the same dilemma at our house! I am pregnant with DC2. Didn't find out with our first but everyone told us it was a boy and they were right. Genuinely don't care which flavour we have this time around, (as was case last time) as long as healthy and happy etc! DS (2.6) is convinced it's a girl and has been since outset. I'm almost 17 wks so scan in 3 wks. DH keen to know and we both think finding out would help DS get his head round it a bit more. But I think my gut feeling is not to know. Been really interesting to read all your experiences, any advice gratefully recieved!

I'm pg with dc4, and have found out all the babies genders. I had 2 boys, a girl and now another girl.

With this one, i think i wanted a suprise, but went along with DH wanting to know. I think to have discovered i had actually had 2 lots of 2 would have been amazing at the birth!

I didn't find out with DD and felt really strongly that I didn't want to know.

HOWEVER, I was pretty traumatised by her birth and just sort of dazed when they told me the sex and didn't really care as we were both alive and that's all I cared a bout!

In himdsight if I had known before at least I could have appreciated it properly.

I'm pretty sure I'd find out the sex second time round, but I don't think I'd tell anyone as I, too, really like it when it's a surprise to everyone. Specially when you know the name too, so at 20 weeks everyone knows it's a boy called xxx.

I would probably just tell people we hadn;t found out the sex.