What made you decide to find out the sex?

I also like to be super organised and have everything ready to go.. In saying that I won't be finding out with my next one. Just for that extra surprise! :)

Because where I live is so limited with super cute baby clothes and nursery equiptment I wanted to find out. I made a trip to Melbourne (home) with an empty suitcase at about 6 months UTD and went crazy at the baby shops! I'm going to find out with this one too because I really think it's a boy and I only have really girly stuff! I'll have to get cot sheets and such so he doesn't get stuck with hot pink and fairies :lol:

I wanted to have a surprise with DD but i had this overwhelming feeling that i was carrying a girl. Then when i got closer to 20 weeks i had people saying it was a boy as i was carrying all out the front so it was i had to prove them wrong!

I will find out with our next one, and if its a boy and we choose to have anymore i will leave it as a surprise as we would have both.

i didn't choose to find out

idiotic specialist who did the amniocentesis, after being told by me that i didn't want to know the gender - handed me a page of results, all the pairs of chromosomes etc.

bit hard to miss the XX.

not happy jan, i was planning on finding out when bilby arrived.

i hear you on the "not going shopping" after baby has arrived angle. i did stacks of opshopping for sizes 0000 to 2 whilst pregnant (and lucky i did, cos bilby's delivery was "very eventful" to put it politely.

keep price tags and receipts for baby stuff you buy, so at a pinch, you can get refunds/exchanges.

there is alot of neutral unisex stuff and things that don't really matter. or get white things, to dye, as soon as you find out.

you'll get stuff given to you when baby is born too, i didn't account for that as i didn't have a baby shower.

You could do "research" now, take photos and details of what you like, so if you want them later, you have already done the hard yards. You could give photo and details to a helpful dh/relative/friend and they go off and get it for you.

bookmark the stuff you like online.

Great thread we are having this discussion now with the twins we found our but now we have a boy and a girl and all the baby stuff associated with each i would really like a surprise this time.. now to convince DH :) But saying that we both think its a boy!

We have found out all 3 times. Lots of reasons.
-I am very impatient and DH is an engineer and really likes to be organised.
-We are both scrooges when it comes to money so I wouldn't have been able to spend money on pink or blue stuff without knowing the gender, and didn't want a whole wardrobe of unisex stuff.
-In my opinion the birth is surprising enough, this way I get a surprise half way through the pg, and then I get the surprise of meeting my baby at the end. And TBH, checking the gender of my babies when they were born was the last thing on my mind, I just wanted cuddles.
-This time though there was the extra consideration of DS1. He is old enough to understand sister vs brother and was adamant that he wanted another brother. I had considered not finding out this time, but changed my mind as I didn't want DS1 to have to deal with gender disappointment when the baby arrives. Lucky I did find out cause this one is a girl and he wasn't impressed when he was told. It hasn't taken him long to come around, but I am glad I wasn't dealing with his shock at the same time as bringing home the new baby.