Baby Shower

Hi Inlove and welcome to OhBaby

Yay for your friend throwing you a shower, I haven't had one myself but really its gunna be up to what you want on most things, the wine thing is completely up to you and whether you are comfortable with everyone else drinking while you can't I personally wouldn't have an issue with it but I know some people just think babies and wine don't mix again up to you and your beliefs. If you know the sex of your baby I think a theme can work a little better than maybe if you didn't know because you could do like a blue or pink theme with your food/decorations etc all matching the theme, I'm not sure what other themes there are around though but haven't looked much into it myself maybe give it a google. As for timing of the shower, I'd probably look a month to two out depending on what time of year you are due, with me being due right at the end of December I would look Oct/Nov ish for a few reasons, Of course you want to be comfortable and able to enjoy your shower so thats one reason, Also depending on whether you are waiting to buy stuff till you see what you are going to get at your shower I wouldn't want to leave any leftover shopping too late being that I will then hit all the xmas shoppers! If I end up having one I think I will have it end of Oct early Nov.

Anyways I have rambled on more than enough sorry for the novel lol! Good luck hun!

I don't think many of the baby showers I've been to have had themes. The one that did, they didn't know the sex of the baby so they had pink & blue decorations and pink and blue icing on cupcakes and other cake type things. The only other 'theme' type stuff people have had is making food baby like eg little stuff or baby decorations on cakes + of course playing baby games.

The one I organised I just had a few decorations and nibbles - though I don't think any were themed. We played games and just had a nice chilled out afternoon (we had wine and juice/soft drink).

If you just google baby shower games you'll probably come up with some ideas there. A few I've been too have given favours to the guests too like fudge in cellophane or handmade choccies of a baby bootie or one was a little soft toy. But most I've been too don't have those, but a nice extra.

I think most baby showers I've been to have had wine served, but most people on have a glass or two, so not heaps just a nice sociable relaxed kind of affair.

I'm having mine 7 weeks before I'm due but I think I've been to them anywhere from 3-1 month before the baby is due. You probably wouldn't want it too close.



Edited by chelle

I helped throw a baby shower recently and the games we had were:

* guess the baby - everyone bought a baby photo of themselves and you had to guess which photo belonged to which person
* guess the belly size - using ribbon each person cut it to the length they thought would go round the mum-to-be's tummy. You can just write down measurements or use something other than ribbon, one shower I went to used toilet paper
* guess the DOB, gender and weight

I just grabbed a few bits and pieces out of the cupboard that I didn't want (newunused of course) for prizes

I had mine last weekend and had a pink theme as we're having a girl. We just had afternoon tea, so pink cupcakes, pink sguiggle tops etcetc and we had pink champaigne and red sparkling grapejuice.

We had two games - guess the baby from the baby photo and then I bought a little tshirt for each person where they drew a picture and message on for the baby. Can use Crayola fabric markers for the drawings. They came out really good!

Just remember it's quite tiring, I was absolutely knackered just after an afternoon tea!

Hi INlove28
I threw my bf a baby shower in the weekend. She doesnt know what she is having, so we went with mainly white and silver. We had balloons, white orchids, cupcakes with white icing and little silver balls.

One of the nicest things that we did, I bought a brag book and asked everyone to write a nice message to the mum and dad to be. Then we had a page where everyone guessed the sex, DOB and weight of bubby. I will be printing out some photos today to put into aswell, and have also put a copy of the invitation in the front. I think its nice also because we have a few friends who werent able to make it, so they will still be able to write in it.

We played some pretty good games that werent too cheesy and embarassing. We did the typical guess the belly size with a piece of string which was really funny! We played a game where everyone split into groups, had a piece of paper, some glue, scissors and a stack of magazines. Then you had to cut out pictures, and make a collage of what you think their baby would look like when he/she is older. We also played one where you had to hold a doll, and talk on the phone, while hanging out washing. The person with the fastest time wins.

We had bottles of bubbles, and made a big bowl of punch for the non drinkers.

Gosh I have babbled on! Hope it helps :)

I went to one for my cousin and a couple of the games we played were
*how big is mummy's tummy - with string
*name the baby food
*memory - was a tray of about 18 items from condoms to saftey pins, dummy, booties etc we could look at the tray for about 60 secs then had to write what we seen down

I had a mix of games at mine coz I had a range of people there. Didn't have decorations or anything.
The memory game was good for oldies and young ones,
we also broke into teams and had a time limit to come up with 5 baby names for each letter of the alphabet - the outlandish names some of them came out with were well outlandish!!
uhm we had a partners game where one person was blindfolded and the other person had to instruct them to put the nappy and clothes on the 'baby' doll and that was hilarious coz we had like 3 teams at a time all doing it and it was really hard to listen to the instructions,
we did the measure the tummy game which was funny coz I got shy at the last minute and refused to stand in the middle of the room to get measured so my brother got down and put his arms round me then kinda held his arms at the right distance so my mum could check the lengths while I hid coz I felt so huge lol everyone there was close to me so that brought out all the stories of me getting shy over stuff and running away to hide
then the most popular game was 'feed the baby' where 2 teams of 2 competed against each other. both people were blindfolded and had to feed their partner a bowl of baby food then the person who had been fed had to give their partner a 'bottle' which were pump bottles half-filled with fizzy. First one finished won. It was hysterically funny and not toooo messy and yeah everyone had a total blast. My mum ended up burying her face in the bowl of custard by accident trying to find where dad was aiming the spoon so she ended up licking out the bowl ROFL and my big cousin took too big a suck of the fizzy and ended up spraying it EVERYWHERE and all over his wife LMAO omg just remembering it has me almost crying with laughter! I have the most awesome memories of that shower. It was one of the few highpoints of my pregnancy!!
Then we had afternoon tea - just sandwiches and punch and stuff and people wrote messages for Jake on a big canvas that was sposed to go on his nursery wall. My granny brought a cask of wine I think coz thats her staple at any celebration and it was fine. My ex brought beer for the guys too. I was happy with sparkling grape juice coz I don't drink wine or beer.
There were heaps of games we wanted coz we're a fun bunch but we kept it at 5 - 3 quiet ones and 2 full-on ones which was a good decision.
Good luck

I threw a shower for a friend last year and she really enjoyed it. Everyone bought a plate and we had some low key games.

She didnt want anything embarrassing so we did the belly measure, guess the date/weight of baby, picking up a safety pin from a bowl of rice blindfolded, tasting and guessing baby food.....

Had presents and then ate and listened to music. I think its really important to listen to what the mum to be wants and ensure she is comfortable.