Is it OK to find out your baby's gender before s/he is born?
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Kain99
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I think it's fine to find out the sex of the baby before it arrives! Don't listen to those nut's who are looking down their noses! These are the same idiots who will try to make your wife feel bad if she requests DRUGS during the birth!
The sonogram to verify the babies sex will add excitement and joy to the process!
The sonogram to verify the babies sex will add excitement and joy to the process!
I think it is fine and a personal preference. My husband and I decided to wait and find out and were pleasantly surprised to have a girl (which we both wanted). I don't begrudge anyone for wanting to find out ahead of time. And shame on those that tut-tut you for it. It's not their baby or their decision and none of their business.
to the previous posts. Congrats to you and your wife, Tonio! Babies are so fun!
yakky doodle
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sure it is!
it's not like Christmas where there are a dozen options here for what you are having; it's either a boy or a girl. I opted to find out ahead of time what I was having so I could be better prepared (i had several sonograms as well and they were all pointing to a girl). I didn't want to end up with yellow and light green everything for her room/wardrobe.
those nay-sayers are probably the same people who rub on your wife's belly w/o asking permission, huh?
that used to really pee-pee me off! 
it's not like Christmas where there are a dozen options here for what you are having; it's either a boy or a girl. I opted to find out ahead of time what I was having so I could be better prepared (i had several sonograms as well and they were all pointing to a girl). I didn't want to end up with yellow and light green everything for her room/wardrobe.
those nay-sayers are probably the same people who rub on your wife's belly w/o asking permission, huh?
that used to really pee-pee me off! 
Tonio
Asperger's Poster Child
Re: sure it is!
Thankfully, that hasn't happened to my wife. But I've seen that done to other women. Do those people think of pregnant women as living crystal balls or something?
Originally posted by yakky doodle
those nay-sayers are probably the same people who rub on your wife's belly w/o asking permission, huh?
Thankfully, that hasn't happened to my wife. But I've seen that done to other women. Do those people think of pregnant women as living crystal balls or something?
yakky doodle
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you'd think, huh? I was not Ms. Happy-Go-Lucky when I was preggers -- I wanted to deck those people, and I think my face showed it.
My ex didn't want to know, but I did, so I had him leave the sono-room and the doctor told me. Now, the problem came in when his parents, who also wanted to know and who I told that he did NOT want to know, told him during a phone call from him while he was in the middle east ... "How's it feel to be having a baby girl?"
We'd gone months with no slips from me or my mother and his dad dropped the ball. At least it was his dad and not my mother. 
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justhangn
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Originally posted by yakky doodle
At least it was his dad and not my mother.
Ain't that the truth.
Color me guilty as sin when it comes to rubbing pregnant Mommy bellies. I don't do it to strangers or anything like that, but when my sis-in-law was pregnant I could hardly keep my hands off her! Especially when she was all boofed out and the baby was moving a lot.
yakky doodle
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I'm sure that'll give the guys an image you'll regret later!
Family is one thing; a stranger in the mall who jumps the railing and down a level to grope your watermelon belly is another!
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giggles04
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I think when it comes time for me to have kids... I'd want to know. But I do know of a girl that was told she was having a girl... bought all the clothes and what not... then that little boy that came out didn't have any clothes to put on!!! So you can't always trust those things.
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Kimmy
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My husband and I were not going to find out with our second child. But my grandmother was getting ready to pass away and we wanted to tell her before she did. We had the sonogram done and boy did he show himself that day. There was no denying that it was a boy. All that you could see was a turtle with its head sticking out. It is something that we can share with the girlfriends down the road. 
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Kimmy
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Here is our little slugger when he was born.
