Reddit rallies behind a pregnant mom who doesn't want to have a gender reveal party, despite her mother-in-law insisting on having one.
she feels uncomfortable about the concept. She told her mother-in-law that she would prefer not to, and assumed that the conversation had been dropped.
“Last Thursday, we went to the doctor ,” the Reddit user wrote. “The doctor asks me if I wanna know the gender of the baby and I say yes. My MIL shooshes me. She says no. To put it in an envelope so we can give it to the person responsible for the. I say no again and just ask to tell us. MIL starts getting impatient and saying that’s no big deal. To just let her have this one thing.”
The mom-to-be responded that she was open to having a bigger baby shower in lieu of the gender reveal, but was putting her foot down otherwise. “She left crying,” the user recounted. “After the appointment my husband calls me asking what had happened. Apparently MIL called crying saying I had been horrible to her. I told my husband everything. He said he understands me and that he is also not a fan of gender reveals. But we should play along because his mother is sad.
It also opened up a larger conversation about the idea of gender reveal parties. One person pointed out that the event might not even be something people — outside of the immediate family — would be super interested in taking part in. “I genuinely cannot believe that they are a thing that is considered normal these days,” someone wrote. “The only person other than the parents that care in the slightest about the outcome are the grandmothers, possibly.
Some pointed out that they didn’t like the idea of these parties altogether and what they represent. “If it was just a silly little pink or blue cake under that butter cream that would be fine. Weird but fine,” a user noted. “But folks feel this need to try to go bigger and ‘better’ and it’s literally caused fires etc. and they are often promoting some back-asswards ancient gender norms with trucks and tiaras and sexist onesies etc.
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