I didn't want ton know - I had this image of the birth in my head of the doctor going "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!" I thought it would be a lovely surprise. DH however was sooooooooo keen to know.. but every ultrasound the sneaky Snowmonkey was wrapping the umbilical cord around its bits so by week twenty-something we had decided that it was just destiny and we're not supposed to know. Then I had another u/s and DH blurted out "Can you see what it is? Can you see?" and I just shouted "No! I don't want to know". So at the end the doc sent me out of the room and told DH. #-o I was quite annoyed and when DH came out of the room I looked at him and he said "I don't know what to do with the information". I looked at him and didn't know if I should ask or not. I said "It's not what you thought it would be?" (he thought it was a girl) and he shook his head. I said "It's a boy?" and he nodded and then I cried and cried.. I was so happy (I had thought it was a boy but had no preference really). Even though I hadn't wanted to know, finding out was so lovely! I also thought we wouldn't tell people but DH really wanted to, so we called our parents and told them.

I hope that next time round I will get my will and we won't find out. I really would like to leave it a surprise, although it is fabulous knowing that it will be a boy and being able to refer to the baby as "him". I don't call him by his name though - I keep on referring to him as the Snowmonkey - just in case they got it wrong.