Throwing ‘cake’ parties for revealing unborn babies’ sex is a new trend, which has recently swept over from the US to the UK. How is it done? Cake sponge, wrapped in decorative icing, coloured blue for a boy or pink for a girl, is being cut by the parents at the occasion of a nice party.
Unlike the UK, the parents in the US sometimes even don’t know themselves the gender of their unborn before cutting the cake. Tens of thousands of these parties are broadcast on You Tube. Nowadays, 60% of the parents want to know the sex of their unborn child.
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Unlike the UK, the parents in the US sometimes even don’t know themselves the gender of their unborn before cutting the cake. Tens of thousands of these parties are broadcast on You Tube. Nowadays, 60% of the parents want to know the sex of their unborn child.
I just watched a few of the videos of the special ‘cake’ parties on You Tube. There are lovely shapes of cakes with pastel colours cut in front of friends and family. Obviously, it is a very exciting moment as the gender of their new relative is to be revealed. The time I was pregnant it was usual to keep the boy/girl knowledge as a surprise until the very moment of the delivering of the baby. If I had been pregnant in these days I surely would have done a party like this with a colourful delicious shaped cake.
British mothers join US craze for party cakes that reveal baby's sex / The Guardian 28 April 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/apr/28/british-mothers-party-cakes-babys-sex
I have never heard of these kind of parties myself. I have organised some babyshowers (for friends, not for myself obviously), but these parties were not meant to reveal the baby's gender, but just to celebrate pregnancy and a newborn baby. I am not sure if I would organize a party to reveal the baby's gender, maybe I would rather keep it to myself...
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