Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 116: My opinion on gender reveal during pregnancy.

Good day, my fellow Steemians. Today I will be talking about an important subject common in our society today. I'll be talking about the controversy on gender reveal during pregnancy.

This act of gender reveal was so uncommon in the past; all that mattered to them was that they gave birth to a child, regardless of the gender, male or female.
Gender reveals became popular in the US in the late 2000s, slowly making their way over the pond to the UK

Not to be biased or anything, but I personally do not accept a gender reveal party, and I have my reasons for saying so.
It is an idea that you are subjecting your unborn child to a particular gender before they are even born. Also, gender reveal parties over the internet can create a toxic and controversial space over the internet. There is also a chance that one parent might be excited on hearing the news and the other might become a bit disappointed. If proper attention is not taken, it canlead to disunity in the family in the future.

I certainly do not think so. There are more reasons to agree to this than to disagree with it. There could be frustrations, disappointments, and also financial challenges when one adopts this trend.
Frustration can come in the sense that the parents might fall for the society's pressure of having a child of each sex, that is, a boy and a girl. This thought or pressure alone can make the parents have less value for the desired outcome of the child they have. An instance is the parent having two boy children or two girl children, also having triplets of the same gender, and so on.
This is wrong because a parent can value less the child they have instead of counting it as a blessing to them for having a child. They can also become ashamed for even having aparticular prefence in the first place

Disappointment can also come in the sense that the parent might find it hard to connect with a child at first because he/she was not the desired child they pictured beforehand. This disappointment can also affect the present children because they felt that they would have a sister or a brother, as they were told. It can also affect the male parent, as they would be filled with disappointment when hearing the doctor's news.

How safe? Well, I would say it is not so safe, as the negative impact of this outweighs the positive impact. Out there on the internet, mothers have given out their views and also their disappointments on how the gender reveal during pregnancy has affected their marriage and also their parent-daughter bond.
The trend has become commercialized and is also driven in so many places on social media. This act puts pressure on the parents to give in to the act of checking their child gender. And as said earlier, it has a great negative impact.

Photo credit goes to @ubikool

I would not suggest any parent to fully rely on gender reveal before pregnancy in any way. Gender reveal parties can be fun and exciting to celebrate, but there have also been reasons to believe that relying on stereotypes is not sufficient and hence gives the wrong outcome in some cases.
Another piece of advice is that if anyone wants to host a party for an intended child, the focus should be on celebrating a baby into the family and not celebrating the gender of the child. This can help shape the thinking and give great joy to the parent for having a child in the womb.
Lastly, a child is a blessing; it does not depend on the gender. Every parent has a responsibility to love and care for their child, be it a girl or a boy. The love a parent has should be great beyond the gender of a child. This love is greater than anything else.

I invite @bossj23 @alexmartin04 @blessani11 to particpate and read this through.