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!
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