Welcome to the world of gender reveal parties, where pretty much anything goes. Years ago, couples announcing the gender of their unborn child just did something simple, like slice open a blue (boy) or pink (girl) cake. But these days gender reveals, like baby showers and “promposals,” are getting more common, creative—and over the top.
—CNN.
You are joyfully invited to join me and Mark as we publicly learn, through a series of elaborate, borderline nonsensical acts of increasingly violent destruction, whether we are expecting a son or a daughter.
What will it be? Tonka trucks or tutus? Baseball bats or Barbie Dreamhouses? Will I suddenly become one of those women who balance a newsboy cap on their baby’s head and start calling him “my little man”? Or will I insist on squeezing giant bow headbands around my infant’s skull so everyone knows that, despite having inherited all of Mark’s most unattractive features, our baby is a girl ?
This used to be the kind of information that a person would receive in the privacy of a doctor’s office and then share with friends and family members who showed a specific interest. But now, thanks to the fact that social media has turned pregnancy, and parenting, and life itself into a competitive performance art, we can all learn the gender of my fetus together!
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