Mama Drama


It’s not as if they’re eating babies…


by min, who thinks cakes are big liars


I just had to click on this one:

Let Them Eat Baby!

I fell for it. The blog isn’t about eating babies, it’s about eating cake and I’m not sure why Lizzie Skurnick tried to make it sound as if it was about cannibalism. I guess it was a creative approach to the subject of ‘Gender Reveal’ and probably did get more traffic to her site than had she just done a straight forward piece on using cakes to announce the sex of one’s upcoming child.

Lizzie seems to be a little snarky on the subject, but I get the feeling she approves of the practice.

I don’t really have an opinion on the subject of blue cake versus pink cake and I’m not sure how I feel about the subject of revealing the baby’s gender before birth.

I guess it doesn’t hurt anything to know in advance. My husband and I decided to have our unborn fetus’s gender checked. We were very excited and if ‘cake reveal’ parties had been popular back then, we’d all have stuffed ourselves silly with pink cake.

A month later Reggie was brought into the world.

Maybe it’s best to wait until you know for sure…then make the cake.

Categories: General
Mindy Sterba

7 Responses

  1. Sandy says:

    You are so right…my baby girl’s name was Sean Mario and Michael Gaetano since she was twin boys! I would have eaten all that blue for nothing!

  2. Ahbud says:

    Seems patience is a rapidly disappearing virtue. What’s the difference when one knows what gender? It’s not like anything can be done about it.

  3. Sayre says:

    Oh, man… I thought this would be a post about punctuation!

  4. Mindy says:

    Sandy–You got my blue cake and I got your pink. One of these days we should get together and trade kids to make that right.

    Ahbud–It’s all about what color to paint the nursery…and whether or not to put the money down on the circumcision (they make you pay for that in advance.)

    Sayre–”Eats Babies and Leaves”? That one is a challenge.

  5. gender mattered not to us…. 10 fingers / toes

    no extended epicanthic fold… as long as the gender was one or the other….

  6. Mindy says:

    Vanessa’sOldGoat–With six you get eggroll.

    Think about it.