Baby showers at work & not knowing

[shootingstar]

Well, a cousin of mine had a baby shower..after the baby was born. They invited relatives and some friends to a Chinese restaurant where we did have a multi-course meal.. There must have been at least 50 guests and big presents. They didn't open the presents there in restaurant. That's not the etiquette anyway for big hosted dinners in a restaurant.

It was the first son for that family, but there was already an older daughter. There wasn't a celebration on the same scale for her.

Yep, that preference-for-sons crappola still hangs abit in minds of certain older Chinese generation.

The shower that I just went to..the parents knew the gender of their baby/fetus. Sorry, I don't buy that foreknowledge of the baby's gender at all before birth. Someone made the joke it's nice to know what gender you are buying for in advance. How ridiculous.

Gender preference of baby, has caused much unwanted pain in centuries of Chinese culture. (including as some of you know, abandoned baby girls and girl infanticide by rare, but real ignorant parent.).

None of my sisters asked nor wanted to know the gender of their babies in advance. Sorry, got off topic.