A mom of three who says she invented gender reveal parties is sharing that she now has "mixed feelings" about them.

In a Facebook post, Jenna Karvunidis says she wrote about her own gender reveal party in a blog post on a parenting website in 2008, and it was picked up by The Bump magazine. The idea kind of just took off from there.

"It just exploded into crazy after that. Literally - guns firing, forest fires, more emphasis on gender than has ever been necessary for a baby," Karvunidis writes to Facebook.

"Who cares what gender the baby is? I did at the time because we didn't live in 2019 and didn't know what we know now - that assigning focus on gender at birth leaves out so much of their potential and talents that have nothing to do with what's between their legs."

Finding joy in a viable pregnancy

The mom told USA TODAY that she's only done the gender reveal party with her first child, her daughter Bianca who is now 10 years old..

Karvunidis said that she had a few miscarriages before giving birth to Bianca, so she wanted to celebrate that milestone and that gender is usually the first bit of information you get about your child and you assign gender to "a real person." After going through multiple miscarriages, she wanted to find joy in a viable pregnancy.

"Once you get to know your child, any parent will tell you it doesn’t matter what gender they are," Karvunidis said. "It was more so to celebrate this person being real than to create an identity for her."

'World's first gender-reveal-party baby is a girl who wears suits'

The mom doesn't put too much emphasis on her three kids' gender. They are who they are, she said.

"PLOT TWIST," Karvunidis finished her post that has now been shared more than 6,000 times. "The world's first gender-reveal party baby is a girl who wears suits!"

"She’s a girl that likes to do other things, she’s into wearing black and loves wearing suits," Karvunidis says about her eldest child. "Honestly we kind of need to not worry about gender so much. It’s become a problem."

The mom clarified that Bianca identifies as a girl and asks that people don't attach labels to her.

She also added that she gets bothered by questions asking her if she's going to try having a boy.

"There’s enough diversity with the girls being different. It’s like asking someone who has three brown-haired children if they’re trying for a blonde. It's like 'no,'" she says.

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