I want a surprise - let's face it, I know I'm going to birth the best baby in the whole wide world (mummies are allowed to be a little biased), so I may as well leave the gender as the only surprise I'm going to have: something to help me through the labour!

DH did want to know to organise gender-specific gifts, but I pointed out that when the baby's coming out we're not going to be waving a train or a doll straight at it, and people can buy gifts after the baby's here if they want to do the blue/pink theme that much. They won't be seeing us for the first week so they have lots of time to buy whatever they want and be as gender-specific as they like!

Clothes are the one area where I've been tempted, but most stuff I like is for three months or older, so I'll know the gender by then! I have stuff knitted in yellow and white, but the stuff I've bought has been in funky cream, brown and orange, so you're not stuck with just yellow and green. Even lime green is funky and better than the grass-green you usually see, so there's lots of variance in the shades of things you can buy.