A shower after baby comes?

slgilbert · September 2010

This is my husbands first baby (my second) and he is super excited! He doesn't want to know the gender of the baby until it's born and I respect this. Problem is, my BFF wants to plan a shower for me and I hate receiving green and yellow "uni-gender" things. I was thinking it would be fun to have the shower after the baby is born, this way we can have gender fit clothing for the baby and an added bonus- they can meet the baby as well.

Has anyone done this before? What are your thoughts?

Rink08 · September 2010

I think that it's pretty well accepted to have a "meet the baby" after they are born.

Irishsapphire · September 2010

My work baby shower was after the baby was born, because my son was born two months early. It was kinda fun showing up to Old Spaghetti Factory for lunch with our baby. We passed the baby around the table wrapped in his blanket. So everyone got a chance to hold him and get their baby fix.

juliane2004 · September 2010

I'm not having a "shower" before DS comes, since I just had DD last year, but I will be having a meet the baby thing after he gets here. Not to fish for gifts, but to genuinely have people meet him, and if people bring gifts, super.

sstephen27 · September 2010

We're having a meet the baby party afterwards but that's because we live cross country from family and won't be going home until next summer. MIL is demanding we give her a registry later on so she can send it to her family to buy us "shower" gifts before the baby is born anyway because she's thrown baby showers for all her family members and wants her family to return the favor and buy us gifts. I told her I wasn't comfortable with this and she said she didn't care, she's doing it anyway. That's her response to everything. I have a feeling I'll tell her not to wake the baby and she'll say "I don't care, I'm doing it anyway"

shortstuff15 · September 2010

All I have ever known is after the baby is born showers. I honestly thought before baby showers were rare until here. It works the same way as a before baby shower, you just have a baby there instead of a bump! And we do call them showers after the baby is born, not meet-the-baby parties. The point is to bring gifts for the new baby and mom, therefore shower is an appropriate name.

danilynn17 · September 2010

My only issue with it is the germ-factor for a newborn baby to be passed around, especially if it is during cold and flu season. My daughter was born in February and we avoided gatherings (including church) for the first 2 months at the direction of our pedi.

sarafrank · September 2010

The only shower that I know that I will be having is an "after the baby" shower. 1st, because my sister is hosting and is busy every weekend until the middle of October (my U/S date is Oct 25, original date Nov 1). 2nd, she likes the "after the baby" shower better because everyone gets to SEE the baby.

Besides, I already have all the big stuff except a swing and a rocker, so it's not like I was "expecting" or "relying" on the shower for those things. (I worked at Target when my neice and nephew were born, so I scored great "deals" on stuff then and just kept everything).

This baby is my DH's 2nd and he keeps telling me that all the baby needs when we come home is food, a place to sleep, and diapers...and the baby WON'T go naked:)!

beyoga · September 2010

We're going to have a welcome baby party. It's the first child for both of us and we're very excited.

aloha510 · September 2010

I think a welcome the baby party is really cute. I kind of want to do that instead of a shower, but my family is all about the traditional shower. I went to a friends and it was great to see the little one and hang out with my friend, who was feeling comfortable and relaxed instead of swollen and uncomfortable.

PinkBackPack · September 2010

My aunts gave me a shower after I had DD so they could buy me clothes. It was great!

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