@anon25197097 I’m leaning towards not finding out, while my husband wants to know. I’m a planner as well and I like to be prepared for anything, but because the gender really doesn’t matter to me I don’t really feel like I need to know. Not that my husband has a preference for a boy or a girl, but he says it helps him bond with the baby if he knows. We’ve already picked out a first name for both. I respect that some people want to meet their baby before naming them, but I believe that a baby grows into their name rather than the other way around. It’s the first time we’ve settled on a name so early though.
@namergirl3 We’ll have the blood test this time, as we did with my earlier pregnancies, because our baby could have a bigger chance of a certain condition that my twin brother has as well. It wouldn’t be a huge deal if the baby did have it, but I’d like to be prepared. So if we want to keep it a secret, we’d have to ask specifically to not reveal the gender of the baby when they give us the results. When I was pregnant with [name_m]Barnabas[/name_m] I didn’t want to find out but my husband did, so we agreed he’d look at the gender and I wouldn’t. That didn’t work out very well 
This next baby will most likely be our last too, and I think the possibility of never having a daughter plays a role in my husband’s decision of wanting to find out as well.