Finding out the sex of the baby

[tenar]

I say tell! :P
because who really wants to put a little girl in a green or yellow growth suit!

Meee! I do!

We found our yesterday our baby is a girl, so went shopping (I'd been making Mum wait to take me shopping until we knew all was well with the baby - didn't want to jinx it). And I was so disappointed to find 90% of stuff in the shop was pink or red. And all the boy's stuff was blue and kahki - so obviously "boyish" that I didn't want to buy much of that either. Where was the green, yellow, orange, purple, white?

Who wants to see any child dressed in only one colour? I want my children to wear all the colours of the rainbow (at least until they are old enough to tell me they hate it...)!

Down with "girls must wear pink"!!!!!!!!!!!



(ok, ok, I do know that many people obviously have a different opinion on this)

[helle]

tenar, true that! But i always think while they're new born colour coded is a good idea as you can't always tell what sex some babies are... I know that sounds horrible..

Congrats on your bubby girl though! We're finding out what we're having in 16 days.. Not that i'm counting. DF is convinced we are having a boy and keeps sneaking boy clothes into the shopping trolley during christmas shopping trips! He got the cutest little kahki pair of overalls last night that make me hope he is right! If not I think I can girly-fy them up a bit ^^;

[tenar]

Teagz_88, true, I know that the colour-coding makes it easy to tell, generally, if a baby is a boy or a girl. It's why I didn't want to get too much blue stuff for ours, so people don't think she's a boy (or at least not too often).

But I honestly wonder why that should matter in the least? Anyone who knows your child, or is even introduced to them, will know from the name or from the way you refer to them. And for strangers why does it matter?

Why should the first thing we want to know about anyone is whether they are male or female? Of all the possible things (are they healthy, are they happy, are they blue-eyed, do they like chocolate...?) why should that one question be something so important, of a baby, to need to "colour code" it to the world?

(Not at all having a go at you, it's just something I wonder about. And I really feel sorry for people who don't fit well into "male" or "female" slots, in this world where everyone is so insistent on pigeonholing everyone in that way).

Enjoy your countdown (it drove me mad, waiting for this the last couple of weeks) and I hope you have all good news in 16 days!

[helle]

It's just the way 90% of the human populations brain is programed I guess..