Finding out sex question

Hi all,

DH has finally decided (after 1 1/2 months of giving him 'time' to think, hmm males ) that he wants to know the sex of the baby too. BUT there's a catch.

For those of you who don't know, there's a 99.99% chance DH will be going to Timor for 6 months in November. He said that he wants to know what it is so he can connect with bubs and know something about it before everyone else does (fair enough), but that means we aren't telling anyone the sex! Not even our parents!

Has anyone done this before? How on earth am I going to keep my big gob shut?

ha ha ha ha... we did this when i had ayja. it was fun, but crazy all at the same time.

i wanted to find out so i could bond with baby cos i had to return to study so soon after i was due.

we found out, BUT Mike told his mum, and i told my sister so we each had at 1 other person we trusted (ie we knew they wouldn't tell anyone)that we could talk to about things so as not to go completely crazy with keeping it to ourselves.   

The problem starts if your family KNOW that you know what baby is. so you can either say oh, we couldn't find out baby had it's legs crossed, or some other excuse.

ours knew that we had found out, they tried to trip us up all the time, if we did slip up we were conscious of making sure next time we said something we'd say the opposite, and change it around so they really had no idea.

the main thing for us was that we had to hide everything we got that wasn't neutral, we even went as far, as once i was close to due and ayja's drawers were full of clothes, we put all pink at the bottom and white/blue on the top, we then turned it round to face the wall so that no-one could open the drawers. .. mum was sooo dissapointed when she came to babysit once as she tried to snoop and got nowhere!!

so yes, my advice is, either tell 1 other person each so you can not go as crazy with keeping secrets... or don't let anyone know that you have actually found out.. otherwise they will constantly be questioning you and it makes you crazy!

when we have another we will find out for sure, but don't mind anymore who knows.

If you want to do Piper's way you can get them to write it down and put it in a sealed envelope. I haven't kept the secret myself but I do know someone who succeeded in finding out and still saying 'it' etc etc and I never could figure it out!

were suposto be doing that.

but i had to tell ppl on here as i couldnt hold out, but so far only me and hubby know, we havnt told parents friends relitives or even our daughter.
we just say we couldnt see on the scan :) but most ppl think its going to be a .............

We keep referring to our baby as a him or her all the time and people think we are trying to tell them something. then when we moved into our new house the room we chose for bubs has a blue feature wall.....that got people going. We honestly have no idea. I have a strong feeling its a girl and everyone seems to agree with me so I am expecting a boy as a result

We did this, found out but didn't tell anyone. We just made up a gender neutral nickname for the baby or called it 'baby' a lot. It was actually lots of fun, just practice your poker face so that even if you slip and people notice, you can pretend like you were throwing them off the scent. We got the whole nine months and no-one had a clue. It was great!
It was actually really lovely to have this little family secret between DH and I, it made us feel very close to each other and connected to the baby (we were already close, but you know what I mean). I think that is a lovely idea for your DH to know before everyone else.