Baby Shower

Usually, the shower is towards the end....7 months or beyond.

I haven't done one in years myself, so......but some sort of games, lots of gifts, and one of the younger members to help you from there!  LOL!  I think someone here did that awesome "cake" made from diapers or something rather useful........

 We don't have baby showers here.  Wish we did.  In late pregnancy when you feel like a hippo and the optimism from the 2nd trimester is wearing off.... I think a party, being spoiled and being the centre of attention for a little while might be just what the doctor ordered!

I got a cute baby shower invitation in the mail for my friends' baby shower, it read

"Baby (last name) is almost due, we still don't know if it's pink or blue"   I thought that was really cute.

She is having two baby showers, which she knows about both and I've been invited to both, she is technically due April 18, but because of complications she might have to have a c-section on March 26.  One baby shower is March 7, the other is March 13

My Grandson was born 6 weeks early so the Shower was post arrival. I had to make a few small changes to the invite. I also did cupcakes similar to these. Around here showers are usually held pretty close to the due date. Sorry it's so big. I still haven't figured out this insert image thing..

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Denise - I think cupcakes are a great idea and I love that invitation. It's been awhile but I love throwing baby showers. It's so much fun to put together and pretty much anything goes. If I were planning this one, I'd wait until about 2 weeks after the wedding.

 Those cupcakes do look great!!

So you figure end of May would be okay then?

What other cool things have you all experienced or seen for baby showers?

My youngest is 17.. I barely remember my baby showers..

 I went to one where they melted and mushed candy bars in diapers and the guests had to guess the candy bar...yep..my MC gross stories have bled into other threads.

maggiesmommy

 I went to one where they melted and mushed candy bars in diapers and the guests had to guess the candy bar...yep..my MC gross stories have bled into other threads.

Oh, Jessica, you're going to get a reputation for this! lol

And, please, ladies, that is such a gross game.  Grandmas won't appreciate it.

I like the suggestion above of doing the baby shower 2 weeks after the wedding - and I'd send the invitations before the wedding, so people who are wondering if there will be a wedding shower will know that they aren't expected to provide a plethora of gifts for wedding shower + wedding + baby shower.

Really, a baby shower is about the food for the guests, and watching the mom open all her gifts so the women can ooh and ahhh over all the clothing.  Another nice thing is to ask people (either before, or at the event) to write their tips or reviews of products on cards that are tied together to help mom.  ie, "This brand of diaper rash cream is soo much more effective than this one." or "Soak your feet by day XX or else you'll never get their shape back" or whatever oddball things nobody tells you until you're a mom and find it out on your own.  (I'm making stuff up because I don't know, I'm not a mom. lol)  But I've been to dozens of baby showers and the only "games" I've enjoyed are the Bingo games - when the mom open gifts and as the gift item shows up on someone's bingo card, the guest marks it off until they get a Bingo or cover-all.

My favorite baby shower game is to freeze little plastic babies (from party or craft store) into ice cubes (baby & water in an ice cube tray) and then each person at the shower gets an ice cube (in a little cup or whatever) and whose ever water breaks (baby completely melted out of ice) first, wins.  It's fun to watch all the different things people do to get the ice to melt.  =)

 The last one I went to, they had a "name that baby" game with baby photos of celebrities. The guests were divided into 3-4 teams, and each team had to name as many of the celebs as they could. (I think there were around 30 photos total.)

Then there was "purse contents bingo," in which the leader would call out an item and if your team had someone who had it in their purse they would get a point. But that got a little awkward because the leader called out, "Birth control pills!" and the expectant mother was very Catholic, and it wasn't exactly a planned pregnancy.... don't go there, peoples....

I've played the smushed candy game and the bingo game at showers. I also prefer the bingo game. The baby ice game though is one I've never heard of but sounds interesting. I got an invitation to one shower in the form of a baby bottle. It was an actual cheapy baby bottle with the invitation rolled up inside. It was really clever but I'm not sure how you mail something like that or if it's worth the effort.

I went to a baby shower in November.

Here are some of the games we did:

Everyone cuts a piece of ribbon to the length they think is the circumference of the mom's belly.  Closest wins a prize.

Shower Gift bingo:
The hostess made up some bingo cards with different baby items in the squares (washclothes, onesies, diaper bag, etc).  As she opened her  gifts, and something she got was on your card, you marked off that box. (I won this game, lol!)

They had a big baby bottle filled with Hershey Kisses.  You guessed the number of kisses in the bottle (written on a little card).  Ya know, like "guess the beans in the jar" type of game.

Oh, and she had these little cards made up where you wrote your name, and also wrote down a bit of advice for the new mom. Mine was, "Make your husband help you!"  LOL

aerial1313

Mine was, "Make your husband help you!"  LOL