Gender reveal!! 💙🩷 are we having a boy or girl?!!

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]Hi everyone, welcome back to another YouTube video. So for today's video, we have a very very special one because I am going to be doing revealing the gender of our baby. So I'm just the the sex of our baby technically, whether or not we're having a boy or a girl. And I thought a lot about how I wanted to do this on YouTube. So, when Llaya and I obviously first found out that I was pregnant, I was really, really excited, but also had a little bit of fear and worry in me just because of, you know, of course, as I have mentioned on this channel, I did have a miscarriage, my pregnancy before this. So, I think when it came to exciting moments like this, like finding out like whether or not we're having a boy or a girl and just like every little milestone, I always have this little bit of fear. Um, so I think that's kind of what is um made me put this off for so long. I'm going to sit down. So, we already know the gender of the baby. So, we found out together at home, but I of course want to do something special for the YouTube channel and make it a special thing. So, it's not going to be a reveal to me.

[00:01:24]This will be me revealing it to you guys on this channel. And to backtrack for a second here, we found out at home, just one evening, we did the NIPT test, which is a test you can do actually at only 10 weeks. So, we've known for a long time now. Right now, I am 30 weeks pregnant as I'm talking to you. So, yeah, it's it's been a long time. I forget what the original test is for. Along with whatever it's testing for, they do also test the gender. And so we were wondering like, hm, should we find out?

[00:01:59]And we just ultimately decided, yes, let's do it. So once the test results came in, it was basically uploaded to an online portal through my doctor and Lyall and I were sitting on the couch and we got an email notification like the results are ready and we just looked at each other like, okay, should we open it up now? What should we do? And I was such a bundle of nerves. Seriously, I likeoo I can't even really explain what I felt like in that moment, but I was just I don't know, so nervous because it's it really felt like such a a big deal. I mean, of course, we would be happy either way, especially after everything that I went through. I'm just so grateful to be having a healthy pregnancy right now. as I mean as far as I as I know of, I just feel so grateful to be in this position at all and also just the fact that like not only am I grateful from my own experience from going through a miscarriage, which was really hard having that loss to this and just being happy at all with anything, but also just knowing that like we're just grateful to be in this position at all because of how many people also want to have kids that can't. So honestly, I truly like going through this whole experience has really taught me what a miracle like what an incredible miracle life is and like how many things had to come together for all of us to be here. So yeah, if I keep going on and on and on, I I'm just going to get emotional. So um yeah. So, okay.

[00:03:47]So, I thought and thought and thought about since we already know, how will I reveal it to you guys on the channel and I was thinking because I love clothes so much and I just cannot wait to dress the baby. I love tiny little baby clothes and the little tiny shoes and little socks and everything. It's just so adorable that I So, I was thinking that we could go to a store. I'm going to vlog as I do on this channel. Vlog, walk to a store here in New York, a store that sells baby clothes. I will buy an outfit either for a boy or a girl, and then come back, take it out of the bag, and show you guys what I got.

[00:04:34]So, yeah. Okay.

[00:04:37]Hopefully that plan sounds good. So, um, yeah, let's go do it.

[00:04:55]Wake me up. I'm getting tired of sleeping.

[00:05:00]Think I had enough. I've been gone, but I haven't done much.

[00:05:06]It's pretty clear to me. Kind of strange I can take a beat.

[00:05:13]from my better self is like no one else even really scratches the surface cuz nobody gets nobody gets nobody gets I'm looking for faith looking for love in every direction I'm looking for someone >> okay guys so back at my apartment Now I have the bag here. I just had to take the ribbon off because she put a colored ribbon on it that wasn't very gender neutral. I would say it kind of gave it away. So I actually took the bus over to the Upper East Side and I went to a place I don't know why this says Spring Flowers Children's Boutique on it because the actual name of the store started with an F. Oh, okay. Flores by Spring Flowers Children. So, yeah, it was a really nice store. They had really beautiful things. Great. I think if you're going for a baby shower, like a special gift. This was not cheap, but I don't know. I felt like this was a special moment.

[00:06:30]So, are we ready to find out?

[00:06:34]Okay.

[00:06:36]Okay.

[00:06:44]Got to do the whole tissue paper thing.

[00:06:52]And we are having a Oh my goodness, you guys. I when I tell you that I found out I was having a girl, I was so so so excited. I called my like everyone that's I'm close to immediately. I called my parents, Lyall's parents. I called my closest friends. I was just so so so happy to share the news. It really just meant the world. And how adorable is this little dress? Um, and it has a little bow on the back and it's just so cute. So, the one thing with the dress that I was like going back and forth on was the fact that the was the sizing. So, because the because she is due at the end of July, I was kind of counting the months like, oh no, this is a very springy looking outfit. So, if she doesn't wear it in like immediately in like a newborn size, it's going to be winter all of a sudden and then it's going to have to be a whole another year. So, I was like, you know what? Why don't I just get it in a bigger size? That way I won't like miss the window. And I talked to the women in the store and they were like, yeah, you should probably better if you go for a bigger size. So, they actually didn't have 12 months in store. This is 18 months, but it was a similar size to the 12 months because we laid a 12 month dress on top of it. And they were the same like with the cross. How cute is this? Oh my goodness, it's so adorable.

[00:08:44]So anyways, yes, we are having a girl.

[00:08:49]I'm so excited. I mean, like I said before, I really just have always been so grateful for the fact that we are having a healthy baby at all that it we would be so grateful for either. Um, as soon as I found out we were having a girl, something my mind immediately went back to my wedding day because on my wedding day, my mom gave a speech and she said something that I didn't know, which was that I apparently I she said, "Taylor Mel, you come from five generations of firstborn daughters." And something about that really just struck me because women are so powerful and we are so so strong and amazing and smart and capable and I just when I think about raising a girl like my my heart and my mind just races to all these things. I can't wait to teach her everything and dress her up and just let her be whoever she is going to be. You know, like I my mom was such a great mom and that she taught me so many great things and that I hope that I could pass down to my daughter, which was really just my mom always always said to me like, "I just want you to be happy." like she never forced me in any sort of direction or like anything like that. She truly truly just wanted the best for me and wanted me to be happy. And I truly like feel the same exact way for our daughter, whoever she will be. I I just can't wait to see who she will grow into, you know?

[00:10:41]And oh, it's just so exciting. And I mean, obviously you guys know that I love pink and floral things and love shack fancy. So, um, you know, while she's young enough and will let me, of course, I'm going to gravitate towards cutesy little things like this. Um, so, you know, it is what it is. But we have started decorating the nursery. So, we're doing it little by little. So, we've been looking at wallpaper samples and paint samples and we've been getting furniture and everything. So, um it's starting to be it's become clear if you walk into the room right now which um that we're having a girl. So, yeah. Um so, I will be doing a nursery reveal or like a decorate the nursery with me or like nursery tour or something like that. I don't know exactly, but I've been filming it along the way and I will show you guys um like the whole process of it. But uh yeah, I'm just I'm so so excited and happy and I'm just continuing to pray that the rest of this pregnancy just continues to go on healthy like it is and that birth and the labor and delivery and everything goes well and that she is just happy as can be and healthy as can be and I truly truly just can't wait. So yeah. Yay. So, now you guys know, now the secret is out.

[00:12:21]I actually, if any of you guys follow me on Instagram, I did put an Instagram story up months ago when Lyall and I were just like went out shopping one day for baby gear. And we went into a Pottery Barn Kids or Pottery Pottery Barn Baby. Yes, it's Pottery Barn Kids.

[00:12:44]And we and there was like this whole love shack fancy section and I took a picture of it and I posted it to my stories just not even thinking and multiple people saw it and they're like oh did you just reveal to us that you're having a girl and I was like oh like I didn't even realize that it would come off that way cuz I mean I think I was just thinking of it more so of like oh look at all these cute little baby things but a lot a good amount of people were like oh so you're having a girl so I just took it down so that like there wasn't any confusion and so that I could like announce it properly. So to those of you that saw that, yeah, you were right. I guess I was just too excited. But anyways, yeah, so we're we're really really happy and honestly just feeling all the joy and all the excitement and all the feelings. It truly just I don't know, means the world to me. She's about to be my whole little world. So, um yeah, I uh I can't wait to share more with you guys. But, um I hope that you're excited and and yeah, that's it, I guess. Um so, more to come, of course, and subscribe if you haven't already and follow the fashion squirrel as well over on Instagram. And hopefully I will see you guys next time. Okay.