Friday, December 30, 2005

Sex and Presents (no, not what you think)

Is it a boy or girl?

Elaine doesn't want to know the sex of our baby until it's born, whereas I want to use all the fancy new gadgets we can and find out as soon as possible. It's kind of like opening Christmas presents, I always want to open a few presents early, but save the big presents for Christmas day. Elaine prefers to not open any presents early (although sometimes she indulges me). Finding out the sex of our baby is just like opening a little present early, and we still get the big present when the baby's born. (I guess it's a bit more like carefully peaking inside your big present early, trying not to tear any of the paper so your parents won't find out, but I did that too as a kid, so the analogy still works. I just hope it's not like opening presents this year, since we've waited untill five days after Christmas to open presents, which pleases my sister to no end, but drives me a little batty).

It used to be that expectant parents didn't have a choice, you simply had to wait 'till the baby was born to find out if it was boy or girl. Now with the advent of sonography, 3D ultrasound, and even 4D ultrasound, not only can you find out the sex of your baby early, you almost can't avoid it. Old sonograms required some skill to determine exactly what you were looking at, so it wasn't too difficult to ask the doctors and nurses to simply not tell you. But some new technology makes the sex of your baby blatantly obvious.

So what are we going to do? Well, we don't have to decide for a few more months, but the plan is that we'll ask the doctors and nurses to not tell us the sex of the baby when we have the sonogram, but if we figure it out ourselves, that's okay. We might even post the picture to the blog and let all of you way in on what sex you think the baby is, but that will have to wait for another post.

1 comment:

Nabeel said...

you won't be ruining any of the surprise.

you can look at the ultrasound, be told what his/her IQ is going to be, and have a fortune teller let you know exactly what age he/she is going to get married and the birth will STILL be a completely overwhelming amazing event.

and the positive side is it helps you realize that this little things really is a person, which helps you adjust.

not that i'm adjusted or anything, even though Kaden is turning one next week, I'm just saying.