Gender Reveal Parties What the Hell???

A bit like this.
After looking at the cakes on Google, it’s usually the sponge that is coloured, not the goop

MissAdventure

I think the important thing to remember is that most people couldnt give a silent fart what gender someone else's baby is.

Apart from the parents, grandparents probably, I would agree.

When someone had a baby, you would be quite interested and say “Is it a boy or girl, and is everyone ok?”

Now, we’ve all heard beforehand the sex, due date, expected weight, colour of nursery….

Nothing’s a surprise anymore.

Personally I would hate it, and I agree with MissAdventure, no one will be bothered either way what sex the baby is going to be.

My granddaughter watches them on TikTok and they don’t always go well

Paddyann I know about how Halloween started but the Halloween we know today was started in Usa the witches coffins, Skeletons, the begging, the going round asking for sweets or they ll prank you that was brought over from US
One of things I think s so awful about gender reveal is the whooping and delight that you haven’t got the other sex what if there’s already a child of the other sex in the family what if it’s wrong, it’s just total nonsense, a child should be welcomed whatever sex it is and however it arrives

Something else which America seems to have started. Pointless and just an excuse for unnecessary expenditure. My daughter opted not to know sex of all three of her babies until actual birth but she had to remind medics not to say throughout her pregnancies.

And as grandma isn’t it just magical to get that first phone call “it’s a .... !”
?❤️

I loved not knowing what sex my three were.

It all seems so ridiculous, particularly now that so many couples are bringing their children up as gender neutral.
Maybe we will move onto ceremonies where young people decide their sex?.

Re Hallowe’en, IMO it’s only become such a huge thing here because of the mass of very cheap black and orange tat in the shops - I dare say a lot of it made in China.

Though having said that, yesterday in a big Asda I saw a huge white scary-faced spider-shaped ‘skeleton’ - I know Gdcs would absolutely love it, but luckily not even remotely tempted since they’re going to be away for the H-word this year.

I will be putting a modest-sized pumpkin* in the window and be ready with treats - we usually get at least a dozen children round.
*By culinary magic it turns into a Thai- style soup the next day.

FannyCornforth

Urmstongran

Apologies FC “ice the cake inside. ? never heard of that before.

Sorry Urms I’ve just explained it very poorly.
Just as I’ve never given birth; I’ve never made a cake.
I mean the creamy, icing stuff between the layers of sponge.
My cake vocabulary is letting me down badly here…

Just as I’ve never given birth; I’ve never made a cake.

That tickled me!

I've given birth - it was a doddle in comparison to trying to make a cake

Thanks Dickens.
I must admit that it’s got me a bit worried.
Am I actually allowed on here?
My GN credentials are somewhat lacking.
Am I about to be ostracised?

Element of surprise when born ... also mistakes can be made ... seems like any excuse to have parties & pressies ... to me a waste of money ... my friend was invited to different sorts of parties for just one baby ... also she heard someone say have loads of clothes, so decided to buy the baby something completely different, never been to one of these parties although went to a Sikh one just after the baby was born so instead of clothes bought a lovely cuddly toy & a book for when a little older

FannyCornforth

Thanks Dickens.
I must admit that it’s got me a bit worried.
Am I actually allowed on here?
My GN credentials are somewhat lacking.
Am I about to be ostracised?

GN doesn’t ask for credentials, so I think you’re safe FC.
Just as well. We’d miss your contributions.

The 'surprise' thing will happen just the same if parents find out before the birth though. I've never really understood that line of thought. For me it's not the finding out that seems odd - it's the hullabaloo surrounding it.

paddyann54

Bluebelle Halloween isn't American it started in Scotland and Ireland before America existed and was taken there by us,Of course we didn't do the trick or treat thing ,we all just sang a wee song or recited a poem or danced for out loot ,peanuts an apple and a sweetie usually ,if you were lucky a threepenny bit nowadays a pound .It seems only England didn't celebrate

We did (in England), paddyann, I remember apple bobbing etc, cutting out paper shapes of pumpkins etc but we didn't go round the houses with a bucket doing trick or treat.

Simple fun, not commercialised in the olden days when I was young ?

This sex-reveal party sounds like more commercialism.
I do remember asking what sex our last baby was when I went for a scan because I wanted to go shopping in the sales, but they wouldn't tell me in case they got it wrong.

Dickens

FannyCornforth

Urmstongran

Apologies FC “ice the cake inside. ? never heard of that before.

Sorry Urms I’ve just explained it very poorly.
Just as I’ve never given birth; I’ve never made a cake.
I mean the creamy, icing stuff between the layers of sponge.
My cake vocabulary is letting me down badly here…

Just as I’ve never given birth; I’ve never made a cake.

That tickled me!

I've given birth - it was a doddle in comparison to trying to make a cake

Now then, FannyC off you go and whip up a Victoria sponge (or should that be a Victor sponge?), easy peasy. Slap some raspberry jam in the middle, none of your butter cream stuff.

You don't qualify as a Gransnetter until you've made and shared a cake on here ?

FannyCornforth

Thanks Dickens.
I must admit that it’s got me a bit worried.
Am I actually allowed on here?
My GN credentials are somewhat lacking.
Am I about to be ostracised?

... well, I'm not sure either of us should be admitting on GN that we can't make a cake.

Even tho' you've not given birth you are still part of that unique demographic who've been round the block a few times and know a thing or two - especially about the younger generation

I thought most people were frantically worried about the cost of living without adding another plastic tat party to their repertoire.
Also I’m rather superstitious regarding pregnancy as in Ye Olden Days and only truly celebrate when a birth has gone well and both mother and baby are fine, so no baby showers, Penis Party etc. for me.

I can't understand why apart from medical reasons why parents want to know sex of baby then telling everyone .I was excited to know and thinking I would soon know helped me cope with Labour .neither of my A.c. found out either.

Baby showers and gender-reveal parties (or whatever they're called), etc, are hot in the USA for obvious reasons IMO. Rampant capitalism dictates that anything and everything that can be commoditised will be, basically! Everything's a business / commercial opportunity.

I believe we're fast going down the same route. If Tufton Street has anything to do with it.

... so no baby showers, Penis Party etc. for me.

I thought this was satire - but Penis Parties are actually a 'thing'.

With cakes and other party-food constructed accordingly.

Still, Truss wants to grow the economy...

Apparently the stag and hen do's aren't such a thing in the States. I was watching some videos comparing the US to the UK and this was something that came up. The Americans were quite surprised when someone came up to them, dressed in a gaudy costume and selling some trinket or a small bottle of something. Come to think of it, this may have happened in Germany but it could have been a British hen party.

I can't be the only one boggled that it could have been some sort of LGBT gender reveal party. I can only imagine what that might in involve

Fanny, you mean buttercream

JaneJudge

I can't be the only one boggled that it could have been some sort of LGBT gender reveal party. I can only imagine what that might in involve

Well, I thought that too before I read on!

I think we need to let people have their happiness.

Let them have their gender reveal parties, their Christmas decorations in October, their hobbies we don't understand.

Let people find all the happiness and joy they can in life