I'm not the one to be glorifying the birthing or gender conformation of any demon spawn

I’m pretty sure it’s just for extra gifts which I find annoying

Have nothing better to spend money on, I suppose. I think it’s the look at me /IG culture. I also hate the whole “girl mom/dad” and “boy mom/dad” thing. 🙄

It started in the early '00s with some bloggers and social media personalities doing it, and then it somehow took off - I can't trace the exact source of when it became viral. Yeah, they are pretty ridiculous and they do enforce many gender stereotypes. Someone in my family had one and I felt a little uncomfortable there for that reason. It might be an extension of the whole "living vicariously through your child" that some parents do - if they had unfulfilled dreams growing up, maybe they hope to fulfill them through their kid. But that's just speculation.

People just want to have fun. Plus nowadays you can post some pics on social media to get extra happiness. That combined with "family proudness" results in such parties.

Needless to say the results may not scale well when dealing with wealthier/more famous people.

I don't know that it's a class thing, plenty of them go down in trailer parks as well...it's an excuse to throw a party as far as I can tell, but lots of things are that...maybe there's a bit of the ol' narcissism too?

Ive been trying to figure out why people do that as well...and some of these get way to extreme. I heard one even caused a huge forest fire.