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We found out as soon as we could and we will do the same for all future pregnancies! Team Green isn't for us..we're much too impatient
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We both wanted to find out and I am so glad that we did. I still remember the feeling and excitement when finding out it was a girl.
Plus like Lawbee11, I wouldn't wait cause all gender neutral is ducks these days and I don't like a lot of yellow.
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Team Green is the best! We will be Team Green again if we are lucky enough to have a second. The only way I'd find out is if we had twins.
We actually didn't get a lot of clothes - people gave us gift cards instead which was way better anyways.
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Not knowing gave me a lot of anxiety. If I was very cool/collected about it and had no preference, I would have been fine not knowing! I think it depends on how it makes YOU feel.
I think #1 is the best time to not find out. For #2 you want to know if you have to buy a whole new gender set of anything you have- like if we have a boy for #2 we'd need mostly new clothes, and some people have things like pink walkers, etc that they may want to replace.
(ETA- we found out, actually paid to find out early haha. 16 weeks! And I didn't believe it til 20!)
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I def cannot be team green... I'm a planner and I need to know so I can prepare!
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The way I look at it, it was a surprise to me what we were having regardless of when we found out. So yeah, we found out.
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We were team green! I loved it! I still felt connected with the baby and were able to focus on other things that boy or girl. We were given things from friends that were gender specific, but that doesn't matter to us (our boy walks around in a pink walker). No one cares! For clothes, we have other family and friends that would be generous in giving us some clothes, and I generally shop at consignment stores anyways (both ways are how we got clothes this time around). I'd definitely do it again for our next one(s)!
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We found out, and I'm glad I did. I'm such a planner that I liked being about to be in "control" of something like the nursery/preparing clothes/ect. It helped me be less stressed going into the labor by having stuff ready at home. I loved that we could call her a she too, I hated not knowing what to refer to her as either, people calling her an "it" bothered me! ha
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We found out. I'm a big planner and prefer to have absolutely every bit of information I can.
DH had a hard time connecting to the baby prior to our 20week scan and it really helped him bond.
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When we found out we were having twins, we never considered not finding out. We needed to plan as much as we could and to know as much about these babies as we could to help ease some of the stresses of a twin pregnancy. We are, however, dead set on being Team Green if we have another one. I think it will be fun to have the anticipation and wonder. Also, honestly, the twins get a LOT of attention from people, so I hope the fact that there will be a big question about the gender will help people be interested in this next baby, too, if that makes sense.
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I am a super control freak, so I was surprised at my desire and ability to go the entire pregnancy without finding out. I guess part of it was because I was abroad, I couldn't do all the shopping I normally would have, so it helped to control it a bit.
I felt perfectly bonded to my son, I knew it was a boy from the beginning anyway!
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I thought finding out at birth was so amazing. I will be team green for all future LOs.
I didn't really feel like I couldn't prepare because I didn't know. I got a lot of gender neutral stuff and then some boy, some girl stuff.
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We loved being team green for the first. Other people weren't thrilled with us, but my husband wanted to go into the waiting room and announce, "It's a GIRL!" to our family. Plus since we knew we wanted to have more children, we were fine with gender neutral stuff that could be used for multiple children. We are now pregnant with our second and we are fully supplied for the next boy or girl.
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We're not finding out the sex and I wouldn't have it any other way. I can't wait to meet our baby and find out if it's a boy or girl all at the same time.
I've never really understood when people say that they need to find out the sex so that they can plan. We've still got more than 11 weeks to go and we've already got everything we need - a cute gender-neutral nursery and plenty of gender-neutral clothing for the first couple of months.
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We didn't find out with our twins. DH calling out their (predetermined by gender) names to me as they were born is one of my favorite memories. I get teared up just thinking about it. I'm a huge planner but honestly, not knowing probably helped me. If I'd known we were having two girls I would have gone crazy buying stuff (we wouldn't have needed) ahead of time. There was also a ton of anticipation and excitement all around, family, friends, nurses and even the dr's were excited with us to find out. Also, not knowing didn't effect my bonding with them, there was plenty of that without knowing.
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I don't know if I can stick with it.
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@autumnlove: time out-*can* stick with it currently, or *could*stick with it hypothetically???
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I'm not a team green person because honestly, I just don't feel like I need to not know the sex of the baby.
DH and I cried when we found out at our US, and we had some pretty magical nights staying up imagining what our DD would be like. And when she was born and we got to meet her, it was so incredibly surprising to see how much we felt like we knew this tiny person we had just met.
So for us, we found out and it was still magical and very surprising. In fact, DD surprises us pretty much every day.
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@LovelyPlum: Whoops! Could.
We attempted Team Green last time. We wavered and found out at 16 weeks.
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I think it sounds like such a fun thing if you don't care about the gender. I had a pretty big gender preference and finding out helped me to work through my feelings at not getting my initial preference. It also helped us decide on a name, which was really hard for us. And knowing helped me bond with him, and it was so fun planning out his nursery and not having to be gender neutral.
We'll also probably find out for #2 because I'll be super curious about whether we'll need to get girly stuff. But I could totally see if we were to have a 3rd and already have one of each to do it for fun.
If you have the kind of personality that makes waiting worth it, then go for it! If you're an obsessive planner that likes gender-specific stuff, then better to find out.
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We will be Team Green! My DH will most likely be deploying next month and be gone until week 21 or so. I'm not going to find out alone, and by that point we'll already be 1/2 through! It excites me that there will be a big surprise for both of us at the end of all this. I'm also okay with getting mostly gender neutral things bc ideally, we'd like to use most everything for future baby #2
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@autumnlove: I was gonna say, did you have something to share with the class?
@ShootingStar: it is so interesting how different everyone is. I was afraid of gender disappointment, but that actually encouraged us not to find out. I figured, I was less likely to be disappointed if I could put a face to a gender. I'm glad you were able to do what would help you!
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@Kelli_Deluxe: fun!
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