In my experience the doctors, RNs midwives have always asked when we’ve arrived to deliver who we wanted to have announce it. You could always put it in your birth plan if you’re wanting to as well. 
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I definitely don’t think I was kept from being able to bond with my babies because I chose Team [name_m]Green[/name_m]. I still felt every kick and movement. I still knew their personalities and which one craved one thing or another. Their personalities certainly shined during the ultrasounds. I still felt my baby move when my hubby or kids would talk to my belly. [name_m]Or[/name_m] flashed a light or played certain music. And actually my firstborn we had a girl and boy name figured out early enough that we meshed the two options together to form a nickname. [name_m]Jabez[/name_m] & [name_f]Esther[/name_f] became Jabestie .
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@WildroseofJuillet This! Definitely include it in your birth plan. It has a section for this on our hospital’s birth plan form, and you can tick a box that says you want your partner / support person to tell you.
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Great idea!! I remember filling out a birth plan I had printed off to bring but that went out the window with baby #1 
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Hubby and I already have a boy and 2 girls. It’s been 9 years since the beginning of our last pregnancy. We’ve gained a lot of patience in that time. 
We’ve been TTC for the last 14 months and we don’t care at all what sex we get. We already have a list of combos for each. I just love the idea of him holding up the baby and saying what baby is at birth!
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I had a team green baby (a little girl). I really really wanted a girl (though after four years of fertility treatment I would have been ecstatic with anything). [name_f]My[/name_f] mum had four delivery surprises (the first two because it was the 80s and they couldn’t tell you back then). When she was pregnant with baby number four, we all wanted a girl (there was one girl - me - and two boys at that stage). Mum said she knew she’d have been disappointed if she’d had another boy and she feared that if she’d found out a three months she’d have been disappointed the whole pregnancy but if she waited until delivery, if she’d had a third boy, she’d have been disappointed for five seconds and then she’d have just fallen in love and not cared. So this was my logic - five seconds vs six months. At times it drove me nuts not knowing, but I so thoroughly enjoyed how much it annoyed everyone else (‘but how can you possibly be organized?’) that I never would have actually found out. When she was finally born, everyone temporarily forgot I didn’t know what she was, and I think it was my sister (I’m a solo mum so no hubby there to do the announcement) who asked what she was. The doctor lifted up her little leg and said ‘oh, it’s a girl’ (he’d never checked either). It was the coolest moment! As I got my girl, for baby number two, I really don’t care if I have another girl or a boy, so I’ll not bother finding out this time purely because I’ll be happy either way and I love the surprise. And it never once affected my ability to be organized for bub which was the main excuse most people threw at me.
(Oh and my mum got her second girl).
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