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I've been Team Green twice now, and YES! It is totally worth the wait!

With my daughter, the doctor actually forgot to announce her sex right after birth. I had to ask "What is the baby?" and the nurses called back that she was girl. I just looked at my husband and said, "We have a daughter," and we both started crying. It was such an intense moment, realizing that we had a daughter and that we were really parents.

With my son, just before he crowned I told my husband, "I don't think I can do this." Then, with the next push he was out, and my husband told me, "It's a boy!" We both immediately started crying and told everyone in the room our son's name. It was just a very intense, joyful, private moment where we realized we had a son and that our family was now changed forever.

I want to be Team Green for LO#2 but DH doesn't think I can last not knowing! We shall see!

I have had quite a few people tell me that wanting to know the gender helped them to get through labor. So whenever I doubt our decision to be team green I remind myself of that : )

We were/are team green with both pregnancies. It was so worth it when my doctor announced "indoor plumbing, it's a girl" that I can't wait to find out this time around. Neither my husband nor I would make guesses out loud as the to gender the first time around and after everything had settled down and we were snuggling our daughter both said "hmm, I thought we were going to have a boy"; apparently most people thought we were going to have a boy but most of them didn't say anything until we announced we had a girl.
This time we are more vocal about our predictions however I waiver back and forth on pretty much a daily basis on whether I think it is a girl or boy.

@mamamoose: I think for me a lot of my wavering has to do with my LOs having to share a room and I feel it will be somewhat easier long term if they are the same gender; however, I know that DH really would like a boy.

For fun I looked up the Chinese gender prediction charts and last time using my age it said I was having a boy but if I used DH's age (not what the instructions say to do) it said girl. This time regardless of whether I use mine or DH's age it says boy which has me really curious, but not enough to find out ahead of time.

We've pretty much decided that we will be Team Green for our next pregnancy. We lost our first one at 20 wks when we went in for the anatomy scan. For whatever reason, I want to do things somewhat differently the next we get pregnant. If it turns out we are having twins or something, then we might find out, but we don't care if it's boy or girl. We just want a baby with a heartbeat that we can hold in our arms.

@Lindsay05: you had a girl!!!!! Awesome!!!! I was curious what you were going to have. I remember when you got your BFP. (In a non-stalkerish way)

I haven't had the baby yet, but I can say the anticipation is killing me! I'm so excited to hear DH tell me whether we have a son or daughter!

Totally. Even though you know the outcome is either boy or girl, it's still one of the best feelings when your partner announces the gender to you!

@sloaneandpuffy: That's what happened with our first, too! We told the doctor and nurses that we didn't know the baby's sex, but they forgot to announce it in all of the excitement of the birth.

With DS, I reminded the nurses and doctor m ultiple times throughout my labor and like three times during pushing. I really wanted DH to announce it to me, so I didn't want them to forget!