# Am I about to meet my insipid destiny?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-about-to-meet-my-insipid-destiny/816601>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 22, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-about-to-meet-my-insipid-destiny/816601 "2018-06-22T23:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-about-to-meet-my-insipid-destiny/816601/21 "2018-06-24T12:31:04Z")

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I’m American, and I’ve known enough couples that opted out that I usually ask “Do y’all know if it’s a boy or girl?”. It’s less common, but I bet 10-15% of couples opt not to know. More for the first baby (with later babies, there’s practical reasons to want to know earlier).

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-about-to-meet-my-insipid-destiny/816601/22 "2018-06-24T14:11:20Z")

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> [@Staggerlee](#):
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> We opted not to know, just for a surprise I suppose. Is it really that uncommon? I’m in the UK, and no-one has expressed much bafflement at the unknown gender. I suppose it’s old-fashioned - my generation (born late Seventies) were presumably the last where the gender wasn’t easily deduced in advance.

It’s pretty uncommon these days. A friend of a friend just had a baby and opted not to know in advance. That’s the only person I know of who didn’t find out before in the past five years.

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