More and more parents opting for gender reveal parties
by Carder
It’s not all about that private 20-week ultrasound anymore! More and more parents are planning gender reveal parties to find out their baby’s sex and share the excitement with family and friends through a big reveal, usually in cake form.
So how is it done? Most moms and dads have their ultrasound technician write the child’s sex on a slip of paper that is placed in an envelope. It’s then dropped off at a bakery where a cake is baked in the appropriate color and iced to hide the news. When the parents-to-be cut into the sweet treat, they learn about their future offspring’s sex.
If you need inspiration for your own gender revealing cake, check out the 30 following adorable options, and happy cake cutting!
~ Rebecca Gruber reporting on the trending gender reveal parties, Lil Sugar, August 24
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
What a cute idea!
When I was young, birth announcements were also the “Big Reveal” of a new boy or a new girl. Hospital gift shops sold boxes of cigars wrapped in labels printed “It’s a Boy!” and “It’s a Girl!”
The surprise used to be central to the celebration of new life. (In contrast with the modern perversion of forcing women to make a “choice.”)
I suppose these “gender reveal” parties are a spontaneous effort to regain that natural wonder.
It’s a bakers’ conspiracy.
What? No “it’s a blog/product of conception/just goo” cakes?
My oldest child is just about 6, and with her and my second daughter, I chose to not find out gender until birth. They were actually the two most thrilling moments of my life- waiting to hear the doctor say “it’s a….!!!!!” With my third I ended up doing a gender reveal party, but not with a gender specific cake. Rather, I had a friend buy a gender specific toy and wrap it up. At the party my husband, daughters, and I unwrapped it to find an adorable blue elephant. It was a special moment for sure, but definitely different than finding out at the birth! :-)
Ha ha Doug. I’m with you! I wish I had the ability to wait to be surprised but I was always too impatient, like a kid on Christmas eve. I wanted to know at the 20 week ultrasound whether I had a son or daughter and so I always had the tech tell me.
I wanted to know…
just so I could find out if I was right or not.
I was. ;)
What! Those cakes all show pink/blue, boy/girl, he/she! You mean everyone doesn’t share the “gender is a spectrum” opinion? Aren’t there people doing their best to educate us that gender =/= sex? They must be very disappointed with this gender reveal party trend.
If I was a baker I’d bake the cake orange or green just to mess with people.
Never liked “IT’s a … ” My aunt (-in-law) called my daughter “it” clear until she was walking & talking.
Gender reveal parties? I don’t know. Seems to me finding out the gender should be celebrated but not dramatized.
Gender roles aren’t the same thing as the gender versus sex debate, Lrning. Don’t really get why it is relevant anyway.
I think this is good. Having the party humanizes the unborn babies.