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Two Many Baby Showers?

MadisonemmaMadisonemma member
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First off I want to say I'm 8weeks6days Pregnant with my first child.

Ive been lurking around the site for almost a month now, reading blogs and learning a lot actually. Today I started in on the "Baby Showers" Blog and I saw some people saying, You should only have a baby shower for your first child. So after I saw more than one person saying "only a baby shower for your first child.."

I got curious and went on Google and opened more blogs on the situation. I come from a very big family and have many friends with kids and it seems like whenever anyone gets pregnant, no matter their first kid or fifth kid, they have another baby shower. and according to the blogs so do many other people....

Even though it doesn't apply to me, Yet.. I wanted to get some more

 

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Re: Two Many Baby Showers?

  • Disneygeek77Disneygeek77 member

    Some people on here are very much against baby showers for subsequent children.  Others ( like me)  think a small shower inviting only your closest friends and family( and no registery) is fine as long as that is what is normally do

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  • PinkLillyLoverPinkLillyLover member

    A baby shower is a gift to the new mother-to-be to welcome her into motherhood.  A baby shower is not really a celebration of the baby...it is thrown in honor of the mother-to-be.  That is why it is in poor taste (and not proper etiquette) to

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  • PunkyBoosterPunkyBooster member

    Most people I know have a shower for every baby. I know that it is a breach of etiquitte.

    I don't mind very small gatherings for subsequent babies- 5, 10 women to get together at one's house for a small brunch and small gifts but I am now attend

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  • EastCoastBrideEastCoastBride member
    imagestw_77:

    Some people on here are very much against baby showers for subsequent children.  Others ( like me)  think a

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  • blush64blush64 member
    Should there be a shower for a second or third baby? It depends on who you are talking to. In my family you have a shower for each pregnancy. It is not held to welcome the mother to motherhood for us.

    Some people get really angry about it. <b
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  • ordinary1ordinary1 member
    I think showers are only appropriate for first time moms. There are a few exceptions but very few.
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  • rhubarb123rhubarb123 member

    And...what would be the purpose of subsequent showers?  Oh, I know all the ridiculous reasons people give for asking for more "stuff" but really...once you have a baby you have ALL the "stuff" you would need.  Every baby does NOT deserve a sh

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  • PriscellaDsPriscellaDs
    I'm going to have a shower for my 2nd child.

    I didn't get a chance to have one for my first due to my grandmother getting sick and passing away no one really felt like celebrating, including me and then my son decided to come early so I didn'
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  • RubyloulouRubyloulou
    Wow, I never have realized how many self righteous and judgemental women there are in this world. I don't know when it became okay to force your personal opinions on everyone else around you. If you want to have a shower for every single one of your 25 ki
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  • mamigeemamigee
    In my HUGE circle of family and friends, almost everyone I know has had a baby shower for every baby! Of course others threw the shower for them, some may have helped plan it. I've had showers for all 4 of my kids. It was either family, or friends, or bot
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    imageRubyloulou:
    Wow, I never have realized how many self righteous and judgemental women there are in this world. I don't know when it became okay to force your personal opinions on everyone else around you. If you want to have a shower for every single one of your 25 kids then I say do it. And anyone who has a problem with *GASP* a second shower, doesn't have to come, they can sit at home by themselves and pass judgment on people, while everyone else goes out and has a little fun, yes "celebrating another baby". According to the "reasons" why it is tacky to have another one than I guess everyone who says that also doesn't have birthday parties for any of their subsequent born children either, only the first born, and the other children just get the hand me downs from that one. I am pregnant with my second daughter, due to circumstances I wasn't able to have a shower with my first and I am having a baby SHOWER in July. I am very fortunate to be surrounded by church friends and family who believe in celebrating every pregnancy, every baby, every time. In the world we now live in it seems like there are so few things to be happy about and celebrate, why are we trying to take away the joy and celebration for a mother just because she is having another child? Come on people it's a baby shower not a human sacrifice.

    You sound like an angry person. Perhaps a bottle of wine or a fun game of kick ball....for someone scolding people for being judgmental, you sure are...well...judgmental.  

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