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We knew we were having a girl. We got lots of pink, but I'm very girly and pink is my favorite color so everyone knew that's what I wanted. But I also got all the big things and things I needed.

Well, if you put things on a registry, people generally buy from that list, so...you should get what you requested.

If you don't get what you asked for, you buy it yourself, right?

eta: we didn't know the sex until birth and we didn't have a shower, just so you know where I'm coming from.

We're team green, and we got a wide range of necessities, clothes and tons of blankets for our shower. After it was all said and done, I just need a few things to top up our supply and we're good to go.

I was just talking to a friend about this. We are planning to find out but were planning to surprise people at the shower because I don't want gender specific clothes. My friend was team green and she said they ended up getting tons of blankets/hats from people that they didn't end up using. Now I'm thinking I'd rather tell people ahead of time and get pink/blue clothes than a bunch of stuff I won't use.

We didn't find out the gender of our first (son). I felt that people got us what we needed from our registry and plenty of things that were not on our registry where gender didn't apply like toys, books, etc. And we still got plenty of clothes. I think the decision is ultimately yours. Gifts from friends and family are great but ultimately you need very little and if you get the "wrong" things you can always return them to get what you need. I only just realized how much stuff we had as I was sorting through it all for our 2nd son and gave much of it to goodwill!!

I don't think you should find out the sex of the baby just to make shopping for your shower easier for other people. Is that really what friends and family are suggesting? We were team green, where I live it's the most common option. People managed fine for the shower, we received gender neutral stuff.