January 2012 Moms

When are you having showers?

The other day, my friend asked me when would be a good time to throw me a baby shower. And I looked at my calendar and realized....it's going to be a huge pain in the behind. Traditionally, it's held at 8 months, right? 8 months is right around finals time (it's my last semester, so that's a really big deal), and there are holidays on either side of that...I was wondering how you ladies are planning on scheduling yours?
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  • OCT 29th! (to be far away enough from holidays)
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  • Mine is going to be Oct 1st, bc that's what worked best with some out of town people. I would do it whenever it's convenient for you. No sense in being stressed out if you don't need to be.
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  • My sister recently moved to TX and will need to fly back to Upstate NY for my shower, but she works retail and can't travel after 11/1 - so I think we're doing mine the last weekend in October.  :)  
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  • Mine is scheduled for Oct. 16th. I'll be a week shy of 8 months at that time. It just fit for us schedule wise to do it then.

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  • I'm having a shower with DH's side (out of state) in October & a local shower with my side in November.
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  • Not sure, but probably sometime in late October or early November.


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  • Dates were hard for us too, as the Oct 15 tax deadline is worse for DH than April 15, and our showers are all out of town.  Plus, college football is huge in our circle, and DH has season tickets to the Falcons.  We settled on Oct 22 and Nov 19.

    I know it is bad luck to do it before 24 weeks, and you don't want to do it too late in case LO comes early.  Plus, you don't want to be too uncomfortable. 

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    I know it is bad luck to do it before 24 weeks, and you don't want to do it too late in case LO comes early.  Plus, you don't want to be too uncomfortable. 

    I didn't know about the bad luck thing. I'm superstitious (stupid I know). I'm going to have to do math now on how far I'll be for mine.

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  • The weekend before thanksgiving, I'll be about 30 weeks. This way we can be home for a holiday and see family. Plus we plan to drive so hopefully we will miss any big snow storms.
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  • mine is december 4th. my family insisted we wait until i am as big as possible. ha. and it's the same exact date as my bridal shower was last year :)
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    OCT 29th! (to be far away enough from holidays)

    I just spoke with my friend who's planning mine, and we decided on the same date!  Wanted to be before the big holiday rush.  I still need to talk to my husband's friend who wants to plan a shower with his group, and then my family back home.  Hmm... this may get a little tricky. 

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  • October 22nd. It is being held in my home town and we live far away so it's hard for us to get down there very often and we planned on going back that weekend anyway for my nephews birthday, so it works out perfectly.
     
  • Ours will be the first Sunday in November. I think I'll be 31 weeks or something like that...plus it's right before the holidays.
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  • I am pretty sure my mom is going to plan on having it on Nov. 5th. That way it is still clear from all of the holidays and I will be about 7 months. Plus, I have to travel four hours to get there and it snows really bad over the mountain pass. So I'm hoping I will miss the snow having it a little early.
  • I have a shower every day- or every other day if I'm lazy.

     

    Okay I know it's not what you meant, but I'm not having a shower this time so I wanted to answer ONE of the millions of shower posts. You were the lucky chosen one Wink

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  • We are going to do mine in early Nov, figure before the snow and holidays hit!
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  • Yes  my excitement for the shower has just renewed-- guess i'm spending all of my lunch hour thinking about the baby again! lol
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  • End of October, so it wont interfere with the holidays. Also my best friend who lives in Hawaii will be home visiting!

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  • The one that's scheduled is on October 15th.
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  • Nov 5th
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  • This is a current topic of discussion among my family. Between the holidays and traveling, I have no idea when they will have a shower.  I live in FL; my family lives in NY and DH's family lives in MI.  There is an in between point between NY and MI that we could have the shower at but if we do it too late in the year, my Mom is concerned about me traveling.  I have a feeling it will end up in October or beginning of November... 
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  • mine are going to be a bit earlier than normal because of the distance we have to travel. My first one is september 11th, 2nd is October 1st, and then my last two will be in november since they are local (work & church)
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  • imagewillows mama:

    Dates were hard for us too, as the Oct 15 tax deadline is worse for DH than April 15, and our showers are all out of town.  Plus, college football is huge in our circle, and DH has season tickets to the Falcons.  We settled on Oct 22 and Nov 19.

    I know it is bad luck to do it before 24 weeks, and you don't want to do it too late in case LO comes early.  Plus, you don't want to be too uncomfortable. 

    one of my showers is being thrown by a friend who has season tix to the mizzou games, dh and i have season tix to the razorback games so we had to find a weekend that both teams were away, that limited us GREATLY! which is why that shower is on september 11th lol 

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  • December 3rd....we are booked every weekend not until November 18th. Tongue Tied
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  • October 23rd. I'll have to travel back to Chicago and I don't want to be super huge and uncomfortable. I have a close girlfriend who will be traveling back to Chicago for hers as well (she's due 3 weeks after me) so we decided to have ours the same weekend so we can attend one another's. Plus, my birthday is the 18th and my dad's is the 22nd so we'll get to celebrate those as well! Should make for a crazy weekend!!!
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  • I am having 3 showers (yikes!).  They are October 1st, 15th and 23rd.  Two of them are out of town, so we had to get the traveling out of the way before the holidays.  I'll be 27 weeks at the first one.  I figure that's big enough Smile
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  • We have a crazy fall...looking like the sunday of thanksgiving weekend.
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  • My coworkers are throwing me a work shower in the end of September and my family/friends shower is the first of November.
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    Dates were hard for us too, as the Oct 15 tax deadline is worse for DH than April 15, and our showers are all out of town.  Plus, college football is huge in our circle, and DH has season tickets to the Falcons.  We settled on Oct 22 and Nov 19.

    I know it is bad luck to do it before 24 weeks, and you don't want to do it too late in case LO comes early.  Plus, you don't want to be too uncomfortable. 

    one of my showers is being thrown by a friend who has season tix to the mizzou games, dh and i have season tix to the razorback games so we had to find a weekend that both teams were away, that limited us GREATLY! which is why that shower is on september 11th lol 

    We're all huge Gators, so we had to do the same with the dates!  It had to be an away game for the Gators, and an away game for the Falcons.  Oct 22 is a bye for the Gators, but Nov 19 is Furman.  No one is all that upset about missing Furman...lol

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    We are having a big one October 22. (I'm glad to read that its a no play week for gators, my dh and family might have been upset if it wasn't, lol). I am also having a smaller one with my mother in-law and her sisters October 1. Can't wait! 
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  • October 23 is the big family one.  It's perfect because the Philadelphia Eagles have a bye that day.  However, the Phillies may be playing in the playoffs then so we may still have one eye/ear on a game.  We are a major sports family.  I can't wait!
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  • October 22nd :)
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  • I'm not having one (I don't think, maybe a sprinkle) but I'm planning one for my friend and she's due in mid-feb. we're doing hers on Dec 3 because it's after T-day but before the christmas/hanukkah stuff ramps up and before I get to the point where I don't want to get up from the couch unless it's to pee or get more ice cream.

    She'll be 30 weeks at that point. you're right though. it's a hectic time of the year to plan a party, that's for sure!!!

  • I dont want it anywhere near the holidays.  I'm really hoping I can ask them to throw it in Oct.  
  • Obviously we do things backwards in my town... no one ever has showers until after the baby is born.  That's the way its been here since the beginning of time (or since the beginning of my time anyway).  I think its because everybody wants to actually meet the baby.  
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  • imageDEBBIE33CASEY:

    I have a shower every day- or every other day if I'm lazy.

     

    Okay I know it's not what you meant, but I'm not having a shower this time so I wanted to answer ONE of the millions of shower posts. You were the lucky chosen one Wink

     

    Lol. I almost went back and changed my post because that was the first thing I thought of after I saw the headline by itself. I decided not to, thinking "Well, I doubt anyone will notice." I'm kind of glad you did   :)

     

    Anyway...thank you all for your input. It looks like the beginning of November for me, maybe...lol I'm not a very good planner, I've always been a go with the flow kind of person. This baby stuff is testing me...

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  • I likely won't be having one, as this is my third. But I wanted to weigh in:

    My mom is a normal mom, offering advice about everything when my sister and I were each planning our weddings, buying  houses, picking schools, etc.  Pretty much the only thing she had an opinion on when I was pregnant with my first was that I wait until after the baby was born to have a shower.  She lost a baby 16 months after I was born -- she had a completely normal, healthy pregnancy, relatively simple labour and delivery, but the baby girl was born with heart abnormalities and died shortly after birth. This was the single worst thing that had happened (and in fact, ever happened since) to her. Like, she had enough to deal with with people asking her a hundred times a day how the new baby was, let alone having to deal with the nursery stuff and baby things that were accumulating. So I don't know if you'd call it "superstition" or what, but my sister and both waited until after our babies were born to have any kind of showers for them.  Mind you, we both got the rooms ready for baby -- but I figured no matter what happened, good or terrible, I would be needing a baby room SOMEDAY. 

    And I get that you have showers to acquire the stuff you think you need, but really? All you need for the first few weeks are diapers, wipes, and a handful of sleepers.  The rest is luxury (this from a person who would NEVER have survived without the baby swing/bouncy seat -- but my sister who was going to buy the swing for me anyway just gave it to me before the shower).

    Also? Showers are waaaaay better when you can show off your new baby and everyone can tell you how gorgeous they are! 

     Just something to think about.  

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  • My SIL asked and we decided it would be best to do it around the end of October or beginning of November before the holiday season.
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  • November 19th, the Saturday before Thanksgiving.  That should be about 32 weeks. Yikes.
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  • Oh I forgot, my Northern CA shower is October 23, at about 28 weeks.
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