How to Plan a Great Baby Shower
Having your first baby is an exciting time and a lovely way to celebrate the occasion with your closest girlfriends and female relatives is to have a baby shower. Traditionally a baby shower is when the mother to be is given all the things she needs for her new baby, such as baby blankets and wraps, clothes, toys and things for the nursery. It is common for the new mum’s sister or mother to organise the party, or if you wanted to make it really special you could organise a party hire company to handle it for you.
Invitations
Send out invitations as early as possible to give your guests plenty of time to get organised. Everyone is always so busy nowadays that it pays to get in early before they end up being busy on the day of your party. An afternoon tea is a good time, or if you are inviting other mothers with young children you might want to choose a time of day that fits in with most nap times. You can buy baby shower invitations from a news agency, or you might want to personalise them by hand making your own. Scrap booking stores sell beautiful paper and extra decorations that are perfect for a baby shower invitation card.
Food
A morning or afternoon tea is easiest, and also means that the event will only go over a few hours. An expectant mother will be tired, particularly towards the end of her pregnancy, which is when most women have their baby shower. Serve tea and coffee in the nicest china you have, or for something different buy an odd assortment of old fashioned cups and saucers from an op shop. Make some scones, served with jam and cream, bake some chocolate chip cookies and a few slices and serve a few assorted sandwiches. If some of the relatives can help with the baking it will make it a lot easier for the host.
Games
Baby shower games are a bit of fun, so give the job of organising them to the new mum’s sister or best friend. Examples of fun games include having each guest pull off enough toilet paper off a roll to the length that they think will fit right around the new mum’s pregnant belly, with the closest length being the winner, or having each guest write on a piece of paper their birth weight and everyone has to guess which weight belongs to who. When you send out the invitations ask everyone to bring a baby photo, which you stick up on a board and guests have to guess who everyone is.
Gifts
The one thing that a new mother receives plenty of is baby clothes. A new baby does go through lots of changes of clothes, but often new parents receive so many tiny clothes at the birth of their baby that they simply don’t get to use them all before their baby grows out of them. If you do feel compelled to buy clothes get them a few sizes bigger, even things for when they are about one years old. A large box of nappies makes a good gift, as well as wipes, as a baby certainly goes through plenty of those. A nice gift could even include something for the mother, like a gift voucher for a massage or relaxing facial which they can use once the baby is born.
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