Reposting From Baby Shower Board.
Hi Ladies! Hubby is Army and we are stationed in Hawaii. My family is in Washington State and I am unable to fly home for a traditional shower. But, my mother and Aunt are insisting upon doing something, so they are wanting to do a Skype Shower. This would be for close family only, aunts, cousins, sisters, and both my grandmothers probably around 15-20 people. I am just wondering if anyone has any experience with doing a shower this way and if you have any ideas on what does or does not work. My mom is talking about having the family drop of any gifts they might want to send and then shipping them a few weeks before the "actual shower" so that I can open them on the webcam. I just don't know what else we would do when I am 2,000+ miles away so if any of you have done anything like this I would love to hear your thoughts so I can get them to my mom, or decide that I don't want the fuss before it's too late. Thought since most of us have experience moving around there might be more ladies who have done this or something like it. Again, any feedback or suggestions would be appriciated.
Re: Long Distance "Skype" Baby Shower.
CJ 05/29/2013
BFP #1 11/07/2012 EDD 07/09/2013 M/C 11/22/2012
BFP #2 02/05/2013 EDD 09/19/2013 Arrived via c-section 09/27/2013
I had one. I was on bed rest for my shower back in St Louis. I watched from my hospital bed as my family and friends had a blast.
They wrapped the presents there and played some games, ate, etc. I was fiercely jealous that I couldn't be there, but there was just no way. In other words, its absolutely doable. My mom shipped all the presents to us that week and brought the big stuff with her when she came to visit the twins. Not sure if that's possible since you're over sea's, but surely everything can be shipped. You could also ask them to have the store ship the gifts.
GL!