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Post by jessijean on Aug 11, 2017 22:51:08 GMT -6
I know, I know, it is technically a sex reveal, not gender.
I know some of us are having our anatomy scans already and some of you did early testing and know the sex already. I need ideas/examples of super easy reveal picture ideas. In an ideal world I'd like to incorporate DS... but getting a 2 year old to do anything I want is about impossible.
For #1 we found out around easter and I filled a easter egg with blue candy and had grandma open it.
Bonus points for pictures.
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Post by dragonflyinn on Aug 12, 2017 6:16:43 GMT -6
For #1 we found out around Christmas time so I bought some clear ornaments & filled them with pink glitter & wrote "1st grandbaby" on them and we gave them to our parents for Christmas that year to reveal it to them.
For this one I'm no help, I will probably call my mom and say "it's a puppy" lol or whatever the gender is. We aren't posting on FB until we know what it is so that will be our reveal basically.
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Post by helloerrbody on Aug 12, 2017 7:00:36 GMT -6
I posted the pic in another thread, but we put DS (16 months) in a Big Brother shirt and I bought blue balloons for him to hold. Well LOL at me thinking I could get him to do that and hold still. We ended up sitting him at the top of his slide where he actually will stay still for a minute (and is all smiles) and just had the balloons next to/behind him.
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Post by jessijean on Aug 12, 2017 7:48:50 GMT -6
I posted the pic in another thread, but we put DS (16 months) in a Big Brother shirt and I bought blue balloons for him to hold. Well LOL at me thinking I could get him to do that and hold still. We ended up sitting him at the top of his slide where he actually will stay still for a minute (and is all smiles) and just had the balloons next to/behind him. That's similar my initial thought but getting him to stand still for a picture is definitely a problem. Maybe I could just try to get an action shot of him playing with the balloons.
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Post by dragonflyinn on Aug 12, 2017 7:52:42 GMT -6
I posted the pic in another thread, but we put DS (16 months) in a Big Brother shirt and I bought blue balloons for him to hold. Well LOL at me thinking I could get him to do that and hold still. We ended up sitting him at the top of his slide where he actually will stay still for a minute (and is all smiles) and just had the balloons next to/behind him. That's similar my initial thought but getting him to stand still for a picture is definitely a problem. Maybe I could just try to get an action shot of him playing with the balloons. If the balloons don't work, you could get some of that confetti string stuff (like not the tiny pieces but the long strands) and have him play with that? My friend did that for their gender reveal (except it was their first baby so she videoed her dog rolling in it LOL)
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Post by marygracerich on Aug 12, 2017 7:53:16 GMT -6
When people ask what the sex is, I will tell them. I do the least. Lol
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Post by jessijean on Aug 12, 2017 8:15:29 GMT -6
When people ask what the sex is, I will tell them. I do the least. Lol Maybe that's the approach I should take!
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Post by marygracerich on Aug 12, 2017 8:17:30 GMT -6
When people ask what the sex is, I will tell them. I do the least. Lol Maybe that's the approach I should take! I am just a very laid back kind of person when it comes to such things. I don't want the extra attention of a party or big family announcement. I find I enjoy my life so much more without extra stuff for me to do.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 8:58:57 GMT -6
Same as marygracerich. With this baby our announcement pic was putting the girls in matching dresses and then I held a tiny size of the same dress over my belly. That was the most obvious thing we have done.
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Post by amesie on Aug 12, 2017 10:06:55 GMT -6
Maybe that's the approach I should take! I am just a very laid back kind of person when it comes to such things. I don't want the extra attention of a party or big family announcement. I find I enjoy my life so much more without extra stuff for me to do. +1... even for DD we just sent out a "it's a girl" text to our families and will prob be doing the same. I think I also posted a pic on Facebook of her profile (NOT her genitals haha) and just said "it's a girl". I like being creative for the announcement of the pregnancy, but do the least for the sex reveal
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Post by maddisonrose on Aug 12, 2017 10:35:11 GMT -6
+1 to not really being into the extra stuff. We just told immediate family we were having a girl and don't plan on "announcing" it to anyone else
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Post by sunfrogger on Aug 12, 2017 15:33:43 GMT -6
We haven't done any kind of social media thing yet but I think we are just going to wait the 6 weeks until our A/S and then do some kind of cute announcement.
For my DD we put pink confetti in the grandpa's father's day cards since they all knew we were finding out that weekend.
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Post by dragonflyinn on Aug 12, 2017 17:18:19 GMT -6
We haven't done any kind of social media thing yet but I think we are just going to wait the 6 weeks until our A/S and then do some kind of cute announcement. For my DD we put pink confetti in the grandpa's father's day cards since they all knew we were finding out that weekend. Same! I thought it'd be hard to wait until AS for posting on social media/ telling everyone else but now we're just 2w away and I'm pretty proud of myself haha
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Post by flippinchica on Aug 12, 2017 22:23:41 GMT -6
I'm also waiting til after the a/s to announce on social media. 3 more days!
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Post by ajetter on Aug 13, 2017 1:10:21 GMT -6
I posted a boomerang of my girls with pink balloons. Not too complicated but it was cute.
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Post by snowyowl on Aug 13, 2017 10:10:24 GMT -6
This was mine from DS. It was the first thing I put on social media about being pregnant, so I posted this with a "it's a boy! Baby Owl due 6/6/16" message.
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Post by sunfrogger on Aug 14, 2017 5:59:36 GMT -6
Right like.. I already have my DD. Kids are no surprise anymore bahahahahahah.
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Post by aprilz81 on Aug 14, 2017 7:31:16 GMT -6
We kept ours simple both times... A simple sign for the public announcement. Here is where we announced gender and name for this baby.
PDQ because it contains our last name... Will poof later.
*poof*
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Post by bassa on Aug 14, 2017 7:51:05 GMT -6
Our plan is to find out at the anatomy scan and then excitedly send a text to family as soon as we're out in the hallway. So, I guess we don't do gender reveals.
But! If I DID do one, maybe I would do the balloon popping thing with the colored confetti. Or a piñata filled with something colored. Or put finger paint in a dark brown bag and have DD stick her hands in and start painting. Or wait until Halloween, fill a pumpkin with a colored gelatinous substance, and launch it with a catapult.
It's probably a good thing we just send a text.
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Post by aprilz81 on Aug 14, 2017 7:55:33 GMT -6
Our plan is to find out at the anatomy scan and then excitedly send a text to family as soon as we're out in the hallway. So, I guess we don't do gender reveals. With Ava our immediate family (parents and my sister) were with us in the ultrasound room. We did a specialized ultrasound place that caters to early gender reveals that has space for extra people. We made a social media announcement later that day. For Faith we texted/called immediate family as soon as we found out but waited a few weeks to announce publicly.
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Post by stephne on Aug 14, 2017 7:56:33 GMT -6
Last time around we had the ultrasound tech seal the result in an envelope & had a cake made. We had family over for supper & cut the cake to reveal blue frosting inside.
This time around I am trying to talk DH into being sneaky team green.
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Post by teraiin on Aug 14, 2017 9:29:03 GMT -6
Last time H was so excited he posted the ultrasound of ds sucking his thumb on FB and wrote "it's a boy!"
No idea this time. Probably the same... LOL
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Post by dragonflyinn on Aug 14, 2017 9:52:46 GMT -6
Our plan is to find out at the anatomy scan and then excitedly send a text to family as soon as we're out in the hallway. So, I guess we don't do gender reveals. But! If I DID do one, maybe I would do the balloon popping thing with the colored confetti. Or a piñata filled with something colored. Or put finger paint in a dark brown bag and have DD stick her hands in and start painting. Or wait until Halloween, fill a pumpkin with a colored gelatinous substance, and launch it with a catapult. It's probably a good thing we just send a text. With DD we told everyone except our parents haha. I texted all my BFFS right away haha. Will probably do the same this time except include my parents, or I will be naughty & just post it on FB for everyone to see at once haha
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Post by jessijean on Aug 14, 2017 11:46:14 GMT -6
DH wants to go all out. We are into shooting sports so he's seriously considering blowing up/ shooting a colored tanerite bomb thing. Or shooting a balloon full of paint with an arrow.
This is way more involved than I was thinking.
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Post by pippiann on Aug 14, 2017 15:43:28 GMT -6
This was mine from DS. It was the first thing I put on social media about being pregnant, so I posted this with a "it's a boy! Baby Owl due 6/6/16" message. [snip"] Every time I see this pic I want cake! 😜
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Post by blueskiessmiling on Aug 14, 2017 16:34:37 GMT -6
We don't announce on social media. This time around, though, I made a cake similar to snowyowl and had my H and DD close their eyes, then opened them to see the cake cut with blue filling (I found out the sex over the phone from my OB). We took cake over to my parents to "reveal" to them, and then text a picture of DD in her big sis shirt with a slice of cake to everyone else.
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Post by snowyowl on Aug 14, 2017 20:21:34 GMT -6
This was mine from DS. It was the first thing I put on social media about being pregnant, so I posted this with a "it's a boy! Baby Owl due 6/6/16" message. The sad thing is, this cake was at my parents house for the party (just a small family dinner). There was a bad snow storm and I couldn't go. They cut the cake with everyone on Skype. Apparently it was delicious, but by the time I got to try it two days later, it was pretty stale. I already knew the sex, DH and I weren't interested in finding out in front of everyone from a cake, but it was a surprise to everyone else
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Post by wolowizard on Aug 15, 2017 4:18:34 GMT -6
I did a gender reveal dinner party with just our parents. I found out that morning and then went shopping for boy clothes and hung them up on a clothes line in our living room and put a sign out that said 'it's a boy!' The goal was that they would know when they walked in. I ended up telling my mom midday via text because DH told his BFF who told his wife and it felt weird that they knew and not my own mom. Then after dinner, I texted a few people then put an ultrasound picture on FB and said 'it's a boy.' Lol.
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Post by wolowizard on Aug 15, 2017 4:20:36 GMT -6
This time though Idk how I'll announce on Facebook. I have an elective ultrasound scheduled for August 30 and our parents are coming so we won't have to announce to them.
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Post by watermelonseed on Aug 15, 2017 9:11:07 GMT -6
I take my counsyl blood test today! I'm excited to come back here for ideas
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