The person credited with creating the first ever gender reveal party says they don't make any sense anymore and people should stop doing them.
Jenna Karvunidis, a parenting blogger from the US, had a gender reveal party and posted about it on her blog and in a parenting forum in July 2008. From that moment on, a trend was born.
Karvunidis posted on Facebook that she has felt "a lot of mixed feelings" about her "random contribution to the culture".
"It just exploded into crazy after that. Literally - guns firing, forest fires, more emphasis on gender than has ever been necessary for a baby," she wrote.
The mum says people should stop placing so much emphasis on the baby's gender.