# What do y'all think about "Reveal Parties"? (sex of unborn babies)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 30, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-think-about-reveal-parties-sex-of-unborn-babies/839503 "2019-08-30T23:47:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-think-about-reveal-parties-sex-of-unborn-babies/839503/141 "2020-09-07T15:32:05Z")

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To be fair I’m sure that strictly numerically far more fires/airplane crashes/disease outbreaks are caused by casual “let’s get together and drink” encounters than reveal parties; but it would be interesting to know if there is a percentage-wise disparity or it’s just that news editors have an eye out for those…

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**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-think-about-reveal-parties-sex-of-unborn-babies/839503/142 "2020-09-07T17:00:37Z")

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Best not to risk having a party. There was a woman on the maternity ward with me who was told she was having a girl, and when the baby was born it turned out to be a boy! She was busy calling her family to organise selling all the pink baby things they’d bought, and she and her husband hadn’t even thought about any boy’s names.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-yall-think-about-reveal-parties-sex-of-unborn-babies/839503/143 "2020-09-07T19:56:28Z")

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They strike me as silly beyond all get out. I never heard of them until I returned to the US four years ago, so I know they’re a fairly recent phenomenon.

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