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@lawbee11: Amen!!
Same here. I could never be TG and DH has zero desire to try it so we will be finding out with all LOs
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I'm too crazy to not find out. I think I would drive myself nuts!
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I think it would totally add to the awesome excitement of delivery, but I could never wait. I obsess too much about planning, and it's hard enough to choose one name for a baby, let alone 2!
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I definitely wanted to know with DS. I thought I might be interested in being on team green with my next pregnancy, but the suspense is already killing me. I'm only 13 weeks along, and I can't wait to find out.
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I am team green right now! I'm due June 17 and I'm so excited to meet this LO. I just had my baby shower and we got a LOT of things we registered for because people couldn't buy us pink or blue. We will probably find out for the next one though since I will not be having another baby shower.
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We were team green! Although it is a "surprise" whenever you find out the sex, we were obsessed with the idea of DH being the first to call out the sex when I delivered! I also thought it would be added motivation during labor
We were so, so excited about being team green and everyone thought we were crazy for it! Alas, in the end I ended up having an emergency csection and we never got to have our special moment. So, since that could happen again I am pretty sure we are just going to find out for subsequent LO's. Wah Wah...
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I wanted to wait for Baby 2 but DH changed his mind and I was wavering so we dropped out of being Team Green. I don't think we can wait next time!
@yin: I can't wait to find out!
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Nope, we're not even considering it. It's a surprise no matter when you find out so i'd rather find out sooner!
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We're team green. DH doesn't care, but I don't want to know. He does like the idea of team green, so he was good either way. I like the ultimate surprise at the end, and I also like that people aren't tempted to go out and buy all gender specific items (not even just clothing-towels, blankets, everything), so for multiples aren't stuck with the opposite gender color, or we aren't stuck buying it.
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I wouldn't mind it, but since I have all girl clothes, I'd like to know ahead of time what I'd need to do with them. I won't have time after I have a baby to get it sorted out, if it were going to be a boy.
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We want to be team green! It'll take all my willpower not to find out, but I'm sure it'll be worth it
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DH and I made a promise when we got pregnant the first time that we would find our for #1 and team green for #2. Ughhi swear I'm too controlling to be team green but I want to do it for him
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We plan on it!! Definitely team green for #1, and then we will take it how it comes going forward! I think it would be fun being team green for all of ours! We will see though
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@swurlygurl: The name thing was the ONLY issue that made me waver a bit towards the end. And I'll tell you what it's a good thing our baby was a girl because if it was a boy he may have come home nameless!
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DH and I compromised. For our first LO we found out. For our second one we will be TG.
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Nope because we both want to know!
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We were and loved it! I'm a planner, and I don't think we weren't able to "plan" for our baby. If anything, we were better equipped because now it doesn't matter what hypothetical #2 is because everything is gender neutral! We will do it again, for sure.
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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.
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
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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.
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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!
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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.
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.
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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!"
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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!
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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&D (mine did not go anywhere close to what our hopes had been!).
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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!
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.
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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).
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We were Team Green with both of ours and would totally do it again if we were having a third (which we're not!).
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No, I don't think I could ever be team green. Well, besides adoption but at some point I would like to know.
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@sarac: Sweet, I'm crazy for having one of each and wanting a third one
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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.
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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!
It was hard for me to even wait 18-20 weeks!
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