Boy or Girl?

To know or not to know before the birth? That has been the great question of late. The CVS test results will tell us conclusively if it’s a boy or girl. They’ll call us in 1 to 2 weeks so we need to make up our minds before the phone rings. Finding out the sex of your baby via a phone call isn’t exactly they way I imagined it would happen. I thought Jeremy and I would at least be together! I kind of had the idea that I would bring a piece of paper and an envelope to the next doctor’s visit and have him write down the sex and seal it in the envelope so we could open it later under more celebratory circumstances. This whole phone call thing is throwing me for a loop.

Regardless though, why should we find out beforehand?

Pros

• You can concentrate your naming efforts to one gender


• You don’t have to buy unisex clothes; you have more options beyond just yellow and green


• We can refer to it as him or her instead of “it”

Cons

• You don’t have the element of surprise...at birth. BUT, you still get the surprise, you just get it a lot earlier. :)