https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:30:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/3#post-764700 Mon, 06 May 2013 23:56:27 +0000 tysonja 764700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hehe i think dh and i could never ever be team green. we just are dying to know SO much! waiting until 20 weeks is surprise enough for me! :)</p> <p>plus i like to pick names and prepare clothing etc! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/3#post-764699 Mon, 06 May 2013 23:36:19 +0000 Ree723 764699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were Team Green and I LOVED it! I'm a huge, anal retentive planner but this was one of the few occasions where I said that I have no control over this and it's not going to change anything we'd do leading up to the birth of the baby (we were going gender neutral for the nursery and all major purchases regardless) so we opted not to find out.</p> <p>It was so much fun going through all of pregnancy, trying to guess if it was going to be a boy or a girl, picturing life with a son and then a daughter, and really, just enjoying the building anticipation leading up to baby's arrival and finally finding out if it was a girl or a boy!</p> <p>We loved it and will definitely be TG for all future pregnancies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/3#post-764653 Mon, 06 May 2013 22:11:26 +0000 PointeShoesTutus 764653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We won't be team green. My husband wants to know and I can't imagine not knowing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/3#post-764649 Mon, 06 May 2013 22:07:29 +0000 delight 764649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are team green and I am so excited to find out in 14 more weeks! My husband was set on being TG and I have always liked the idea of waiting until the birth. I haven't found it hard to wait at all, and our shower will be after the baby is born. I will go on record saying that I truly believe I am having a girl, but will be thrilled either way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/3#post-764641 Mon, 06 May 2013 21:58:10 +0000 cheesetomywhine 764641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were Team Green and plan on it for future LO's. It was such an amazing surprise :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/3#post-764486 Mon, 06 May 2013 20:39:36 +0000 Tidybee 764486@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am a planner...BIG time. And we were Team Green. We just planned for a baby! It was great and I wouldn't change a thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/3#post-764308 Mon, 06 May 2013 18:30:12 +0000 hummusgirl 764308@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were Team Green and it was awesome! So fun to have the surprise of finding out the gender in the delivery room (in addition to, y'know, having a baby). I loved it and will probably do it again if we have another. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-764284 Mon, 06 May 2013 18:10:13 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 764284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm too much of a planner to be team green. I don't even like surprises from my husband or friends for my birthday or anniversary... for some reason, knowing what's going to happen and the anticipation of it really excites me!</p> <p>It was hard for me to even wait 18-20 weeks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-764282 Mon, 06 May 2013 18:08:31 +0000 marionberry 764282@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were not team green for this pregnancy and I'm not sure we would ever be team green because although I like the idea of a surprise for baby #3, DH works in radiology and I've looked at enough ultrasounds to be pretty sure one way or the other. It would be really hard for us not to know unless we covered our eyes at every ultrasound. I'll think about it when it comes to that point though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-764214 Mon, 06 May 2013 17:26:01 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 764214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarac: Sweet, I'm crazy for having one of each and wanting a third one ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-764209 Mon, 06 May 2013 17:23:39 +0000 BSB 764209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I don't think I could ever be team green. Well, besides adoption but at some point I would like to know. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-764204 Mon, 06 May 2013 17:21:52 +0000 sarac 764204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a girl now, and I reallllllly hope to have a boy next time, just to have one of each. If I got that, and then went crazy and decided to have more babies (not happening, but you know, in theory), I might go team green. If I've already got the full set, more would really just be bonus. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763888 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:56:16 +0000 avivoca 763888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We aren't, but maybe for a future LO. Both of us wanted to find out, plus my husband is SO excited to find out what we're having next week that I don't want to take the joy away from him unless baby is not cooperating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763884 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:54:40 +0000 Grace 763884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're Team Green and one of the great things so far is that it's keeping me from buying too much. Plus, since our kids will share a room one day, it's easier to try to keep stuff gender neutral for a one-day second kid, when we don't know the sex of the first. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763819 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:38:47 +0000 teamjse 763819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I'm a planner and control freak, I would never last being Tean Green, plus shopping was so much more fun after I found out lo's gender. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763797 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:33:12 +0000 MsMini 763797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were team green for S, and it was so amazing there is no possible way I would ever find out the sex of future babies before they are born. There truely is nothing like having your spouse tell you the sex of the baby moments after it is born. The emotions and excitement are so heightened! No amount of gender-specific planning and shopping could ever compare! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763756 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:17:10 +0000 Charm54 763756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are team green and it's so much fun! I love trying to guess what LO is and it's extra fun having other people guess and get excited, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763739 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:09:19 +0000 ModernDayJibarita 763739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're not preg yet but plan on learning the sex of the baby but keeping it a secret and having a gender reveal shower. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763619 Mon, 06 May 2013 13:26:38 +0000 Honeybee 763619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were Team Green with both of ours and would totally do it again if we were having a third (which we're not!). :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763600 Mon, 06 May 2013 13:19:34 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 763600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was team green both times and will be team green for our third one in a few years (think 2 or 3 years but less than 5). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763592 Mon, 06 May 2013 13:16:34 +0000 softcream 763592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yep! currently team green. we obviously don't know and don't really have a feeling either way, but everyone else has their guesses (or more like they are convinced they know it's a boy or a girl). at least half of them are right!</p> <p>we have only a few more weeks until we meet our baby, and at this point, the only reason we'd need to know if it's a boy or girl is so we can start using one of the names we've picked out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763581 Mon, 06 May 2013 13:10:18 +0000 ShootingStar 763581@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I will never be team green, lol. I admire people that have the patience, but I could never do it. And DH can't either, he'd kill me if I said I wanted to, haha. I know a lot of people have fun being team green, but to me part of the fun of the whole experience is knowing what the sex is. I want to plan the girly or boyish room, I want to pick out cute, gender specific clothes and imagine my baby wearing them. </p> <p>And on a more practical note, DH is giving me huge headaches about boy names. He admits that he dislikes pretty much every boy name. The discussions about it were getting so frustrating, so I've stopped bringing it up with him until we find out for sure whether we really need to come up with one we both like.</p> <p>I've also never had that fantasy of DH telling me what the baby is. I'm more excited for us to find out together. And years ago when I was 10 I was staying with my Aunt while she was pregnant with her first child. I went along with them to the ultrasound when they found out the sex, and it was such an exciting moment to them, I can still clearly remember it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763552 Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:20 +0000 Vegmama 763552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're pregnant now, and we're not planning on finding out. There are so few surprises in life, and I imagine this surprise will also act as a little motivation during labor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763543 Mon, 06 May 2013 12:56:08 +0000 heartonastring 763543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were Team Green and I would totally do it again. It was so exciting to hear them announce what we had after she was born. I was CONVINCED, like 99% convinced, the whole pregnancy that I was having a boy, so when they said it was a girl DH and I were hugely surprised. It was a really fun moment - especially amidst all the drama of L&amp;D (mine did not go anywhere close to what our hopes had been!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763537 Mon, 06 May 2013 12:53:51 +0000 ktgee04 763537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I found out I was expecting with my first I just knew I wanted to find out. Everything was so new and scary that I needed one thing I could plan for. Now that we have DS, we are all about being Team Green for our current pregnancy. I knew right away that I wanted it to be a surprise. Maybe it's a confidence thing now...I know I can handle it regardless what gender he/she ends up being! Plus, since my babies will be so close in age (and I basically just went through this the first time around) we needed something to keep this pregnancy interesting/exciting. I can't wait to hear my husband say "It's a ____!!" in the delivery room! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763525 Mon, 06 May 2013 12:48:22 +0000 rattles 763525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We loved being Team Green! It was fun to have the surprise and guess and all that, but it was also useful to get so much necessary gear as gifts beforehand. Everyone sent cute girly clothes when she was born, but it let us get the useful gear at showers and kept me from going too crazy on gender-specific stuff we couldn't use for the next one. It'll be easy to be TG again, since all of the really tiny necessities are neutral. It really was a great surprise too, though! Everyone was CONVINCED I was having a boy - so much so that my MIL wore a blue sweater to the hospital and when my husband came out to announce the (definitely girly) name, my mom's first thought was "that's a funny name for a boy!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763523 Mon, 06 May 2013 12:47:24 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 763523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I want to be team green, at least for the first one. I prefer gender neutral things - nursery, clothing, equipment so I don't see that as a problem. Beside that stuff, I'm not quite that knowing the gender would help me plan for. </p> <p>Also, we have names picked out already (boy and girl) so if we did find out the gender then I'm sure we would think of our baby as our baby name. If we lose the pregnancy for some reason, I think it would be harder, if not impossible to use the same name for any future babies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763507 Mon, 06 May 2013 12:41:42 +0000 travelgirl1 763507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We found out the gender but kept it a secret from all our family and friends, which worked really well. We never told anyone our name choices before she was born, either. My sister is going team green for the first time with her third pregnancy - we can't wait to see if she'll be the first of 2 generations to actually have a boy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763490 Mon, 06 May 2013 12:32:59 +0000 mrsmate 763490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were TG for our first pregnancy bc that's what DH wanted. He had so little control over anything else that I thought it would be nice to do this one thing his way. It turned out to be a good thing bc I really wanted a boy and it turned out to be a girl, but I was so happy to have a baby that I didn't care. If I knew it was a girl all along I probably would have sulked all through pregnancy. Now that I'm pregnant with DC2 I'm not sure what we'll do. DH wants to team green again but if it turns out to be multiples I'm definitely going to find out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-or-will-you-ever-be-team-green/page/2#post-763459 Mon, 06 May 2013 12:18:51 +0000 evenstar982 763459@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>like @Foodnerd81 we're currently Team Green, and for pretty much the same reasons... I like the idea of having gender neutral infant clothes and gear to hand on to the next LO, regardless of what they (or this one!) turn out to be.<br /> I'm a BIG planner, but being TG hasn't been all that hard for me; I decided our nursery scheme (woodland/fox) before we even got pregnant, and I'm enjoying the fact that not knowing means I have to actively curb my buying to neutral things. I have a real aversion to pink anyway, but am a sucker for cute little boy outfits so probably just as well we're in the dark - and anyway, I can't wait to hear DH shout "It's a boy/girl!" when the time comes :-D </p>