If you’re choosing to hire a venue, don’t just jump on the cheapest price you can find. Think about how much value you’re receiving for your money. Try to think about where everyone will be coming for and try to come up with somewhere that’s central for everyone. Just as you wouldn’t ask them to come to a big bash at 9 am on a workday, so too you shouldn’t make them drive too far. For the last 9 years, he has been blogging at and tweeting as His blog has had more than 3,700,000 page views, and he has over 21,000 followers on Twitter.You need to think about your guests and make sure not to inconvenience them too much. He is board-certified in general surgery and a surgical sub-specialty and has re-certified in both several times. Skeptical Scalpel is a retired surgeon and was a surgical department chair and residency program director for many years. ![]() Could we just stop having these stupid parties and then the problem would solve itself? Thanks.” She tweeted this last year: “I’m getting a lot of hateful messages about the gender reveal party that set California on fire yesterday. In a Facebook post 2 years ago, she said, “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.” The mother-to-be, Jenna Myers Karvunidis ( blogged about the event, and the idea went viral. The first gender reveal party occurred in 2008 and was simply a gathering where a couple cut into a cake with pink frosting inside. These parties should really be called “sex reveal parties.” We have learned over the last several years that gender may change. ![]() An even better reason to stop is they are misguided. But a low fatality rate is not a good reason to continue them. I conducted a Twitter poll last week asking the same question as the one that begins this post, and 55% of 300 respondents voted for more than 15 deaths.īecause of all the media coverage, most people think gender reveal parties are more dangerous than they really are. Instead of the planned loud noise and flash, the cannon exploded and shrapnel struck and killed a 26-year-old guest. This was technically not a gender reveal-associated death, but worth mentioning: In Michigan last month, the parents-to-be fired a celebratory cannon as partygoers were standing outside. A 56-year-old grandmother standing 45 feet away was killed by a flying piece of metal.Ī 39-year-old California firefighter died while battling the 2020 El Dorado wildfire, which started during a gender reveal party when a couple set off a smoke bomb that was supposed to announce the baby’s sex. In October 2019, a homemade device meant to release colored powder to indicate the gender of the child exploded. It exploded, killing the expectant father and seriously injuring his 27-year-old brother. A 28-year-old father-to-be was making a pyrotechnic device for a gender reveal party later that day. The most recent death occurred on February 21 of this year. ![]() After a thorough Google search, I found only two deaths directly caused by gender reveal parties and two somewhat related deaths. Pop quiz: In the last 5years, how many people have died as a result of mishaps at gender reveal parties? ![]() By Physician’s Weekly Blogger, Skeptical Scalpel
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