Worst Nightmare at a Baby Shower

MissMandyD · May 2014

Tell me about your worst nightmare for a baby shower? Either a real experience from a past shower or something you would hate to see happen at your baby shower.

MissMandyD · May 2014

My favorite story from another shower is from a friend of mine. She had a shower in her home town and a friend begged to throw it and then proceeded to provide only food that the mother to be can not eat because of dietary restrictions and pregnancy!

The mother to be went home VERY hungry.

Saragoeswest · May 2014

dorothyzbornak97 said:

I know a lot of people like them, but shower games make me want to hork. I hate forced merriment. Let's just hang out, eat, drink and talk. Why do we need to play stupid games?

I completely agree. Being the reason for those stupid games would be my worst nightmare.

TheOtherJacobsons · May 2014

I don't think showers should be 4+ hours. I think the games are meant to fill the time. I'm with Dorothy, let's just hang out.

I am going to have croquet at mine, just because I want to and it's an Alice in Wonderland theme. If my mom decides that games should happen, I am not going to get all weird about it, but I don't want to hold people hostage.

pnwlover12 · May 2014

MRSclarke08 said:
Mine would be the game "Guess Mama's Weight". That'll get someone a big serving of throat punch.

Omg!! I would stab people. I didn't have much involvement in mine but was very firm with my BFF that we wouldnt be taking my belly measurements with string.

SusieBW · May 2014

MRSclarke08 said:

Mine would be the game "Guess Mama's Weight". That'll get someone a big serving of throat punch.

Along the same lines, I don't like the one where people guess how big your belly is with the piece of thread. Gag me.

I asked for no games at mine, and so the only thing my mom did was ask for name ideas by leaving a sheet of blank paper at everyone's seats. My mom couldn't handle the fact that we weren't picking a name until we met our baby, so she solicited ideas for us. Then I collected them toward the end and had a good laugh with each table about some of the ideas.

And my mom gave out a prize to the person who RSVPed first, because RSVPs are very important to my just-so mommy.

MissMandyD · May 2014

MRSclarke08 said:

Mine would be the game "Guess Mama's Weight". That'll get someone a big serving of throat punch.

SO not ok!

pnwlover12 · May 2014

FamousEa said:
So at my baby shower my sister had a game of "guess the candy bar" sounds innocent until you find out it's a melted candy bar smeared in a baby diaper. The party guests had to sniff and examine the melted remains and try to guess what it was... I was mortified....

Hahaha. This is played at every single shower I've ever been to.

MrsL2B · May 2014

I find all shower games to be horrifying, but my worst shower story is from a friend's bridal shower. The hostess was really just using my friend's wedding as an excuse to have a tupperware party. She tried to make everyone buy something from her for the bride! I was so stinking mad!

MissMandyD · May 2014

FamousEa said:

So at my baby shower my sister had a game of "guess the candy bar" sounds innocent until you find out it's a melted candy bar smeared in a baby diaper. The party guests had to sniff and examine the melted remains and try to guess what it was... I was mortified....

I have never had to play this one but it always sounds like a horrible idea!

MrMrsandBaby · May 2014

@FamousEA - that is disgusting - I have heard of that before too...gross

As far as games, they usually suck but my aunts did one that I loved, I'm sure it was on Pinterest or something. Everyone got a card that had the start of a sentence (I hope you, Don't listen to, Be kind to) and the guest filled it in. It is really adorable and they took everyones and bound them for a little book for me. I love it!

MrMrsandBaby · May 2014

Nicb13 said:

dorothyzbornak97 said:

I know a lot of people like them, but shower games make me want to hork. I hate forced merriment. Let's just hang out, eat, drink and talk. Why do we need to play stupid games?

I just saw an episode of 16 and Pregnant (I know, I know) and at her shower, they played a game where someone had a roll of toilet paper between their legs and someone else had a plunger - wooden stick facing outward - and they had to get the wooden handle inside the center of the toilet paper roll. You know....like having sex with these objects in front of everyone. Um WTF?! Now that's a horrible game.

Klassy...

pnwlover12 · May 2014

Nicb13 said:

dorothyzbornak97 said:

I know a lot of people like them, but shower games make me want to hork. I hate forced merriment. Let's just hang out, eat, drink and talk. Why do we need to play stupid games?

I just saw an episode of 16 and Pregnant (I know, I know) and at her shower, they played a game where someone had a roll of toilet paper between their legs and someone else had a plunger - wooden stick facing outward - and they had to get the wooden handle inside the center of the toilet paper roll. You know....like having sex with these objects in front of everyone. Um WTF?! Now that's a horrible game.

Saw it! I was equally WTF about it

Saragoeswest · May 2014

@TicketTuesday that is the best/worst shower story of all time!

angeltennis3 · May 2014

I also am not a huge fan of shower games. I also honestly get so bored watching the guest of honor open their gifts.

My hostess luckily agrees and wants to throw a cookout where presents are brought unwrapped. We will put a tag on each gift with the gift givers name and display them on a table so those who want to can see cute baby stuff. The time will be spent mingling and celebrating instead. Only games like corn hole, hill billy golf, etc will be played and are totally optional.

Lauren1184 · May 2014

FamousEa said:

So at my baby shower my sister had a game of "guess the candy bar" sounds innocent until you find out it's a melted candy bar smeared in a baby diaper. The party guests had to sniff and examine the melted remains and try to guess what it was... I was mortified....

I've never heard of this game...but when you said it was called "guess the candy bar" I thought I would get to be blindfolded while people shoved candy bars into my mouth

...smearing it in a diaper is a waste of a good candy bar!

Saragoeswest · May 2014

@angeltennis3 I love that idea. I am going to recommend to the people throwing showers for me.

lct2008 · May 2014

I made it very clear no measure mom with string/ weight games. Thankfully everyone also knew me well enough not to do any of the food or diaper games. There was only one game at the one my mom did. Just a paper with baby words- layette, pacifier etc scrambled up. And one game at one of my others that was like nursery rhyme ish. Those don't really bother me. I also like the ones you make your own bingo card and whoever gets baby gift bingo first wins a prize

Wino411 · May 2014

Worst shower I attended, the guests were required to pay $20 (in addition to bringing a gift) to pay for the food b/c the hosts couldn't afford the venue they picked, so the guests had to pick up the tab. I refused to eat but at the end they looked all pitiful and kept begging people for more money to cover the cost and I felt guilty about guests paying even more than they already had and coughed up the $20 anyway. Because I was close to the hosts I made sure to tell them how tacky I thought that was before and after the shower. And b/c I'm a blunt jerk who tells it like it is lol.

persephonerose · May 2014

My baby shower with my son was awful. My mom and sister were supposed to host/throw it. They both live out of town and my sister could only come into town very early in my pregnancy. They had my shower at 16 weeks.

About a month before the shower my sister told me to order the invites. I thought I was supposed to order them and send them to her. Nope, she wanted me to order them, label them, and mail them. I did it to avoid a fight.
My sister was supposed to fly into Houston(mom's house) 3 days before the shower, then they were going to drive from Houston to me (Austin) the next day so they could be here a few days before the shower to set things up. But that did not happen. They showed up the day before with no decorations in hand and nothing bought/prepped for food. I ended up having to make favors, food, and decorations for my own baby shower the night before. I was up until all night and so tired for my shower.
Then to top it off. My sister has a melt down during the shower (her marriage was breaking up) so she storms off to go upstairs to cry because "you have the perfect life and I don't". My mom follows her and I am stuck hosting my own shower.
When they finally come back down my mom decides it is time for them to head home so they start tearing down the decorations and putting up the food while my guests are still there socializing. Everyone was stunned and just looked at me. They were yanking and tearing everything. It was so bizarre and the shower had only been going on for about 1.5 hours. They packed up and left. My guest and I sat around for about 2 more hours just talking and catching up and laughing about the shower.

Needless to say, I wont forget that shower any time soon!

ohioloveyou · May 2014

Ugh I hate shower games. Especially the taste the baby food one. I think most of the food looks absolutely disgusting and I have zero desire to eat it or even feed it to my kid. I actually refused to play this at one shower, which makes me a terrible guest but come on. I don't want to eat pureed meat.

ANGnJON · May 2014

I also agree with the guess MTB size with a string & the candy bar diaper game are just in bad taste! They are super offensive & disgusting!

@TicketTuesday, you poor thing, that's just awful! I would have come to your rescue!

Saragoeswest · May 2014

@persephonerose I just died a little

pinkshades05 · May 2014

I was at two showers in January that were remarkable:

--Shower #1: the Mom-To-Be opened presents for...TWO HOURS! Like, I was done after the first hour, but my gift was almost last and I wanted to see her open it! Yes, it was insane and I was so tired. The shower lasted 3.5 hours and I was done after the second hour.

--Shower #2: the Grandma-To-Be wrote a SERMON about motherhood. OMG, snooze-fest! I couldn't believe it! And right before dessert time, too. I'm sad I didn't bring DD so I would have had an excuse to attend to her in another room.

persephonerose · May 2014

Two hours to open gifts is insane @pinkshades05. I have been to a few showers where the MTB had a helper with gifts they would get the unwrapping started so that the MTB just had to pull it out and show everyone to ooh and aww over. It made the entire process go by very fast. I was so glad because she had about 30 guests!

ANGnJON · May 2014

@persephonerose‌ WOW, I can't even imagine! That just sucks!

MrsL2B · May 2014

@persephonerose‌ I'm so glad your guests stayed and you had some quality time with them. I hope you can look back on that shower and laugh now.

blondebetty24 · May 2014

@pinkshades05‌ How many people were at the shower to have enough gifts to open for 2.5 hours? Showers in my family tend to rival weddings in size, and even I cant remember a MTB taking that long! Wow!

LightBright515 · May 2014

Yeah, I'm trying to make my gift opening 45 mins tops. That's my biggest fear since I don't like being the center of attention.

bumpuser10309732 · May 2014

My SIL's BFF threw her a shower and she did the candy bars in the diaper (yak) then on top of that made me and two other ladies race to chug apple juice from a baby bottle. Of course I won....but definitely a wtf moment

griffers · May 2014

My friend had a her baby shower and her mom asked a few of the closest friends to pitch in. I was supposed to bring the cutlery and plates and napkins. I didn't realize that buying any kind of colored party ware was so expensive especially since there were like 80 people there. And I guess because of the size of the shower and there being so many gifts it took like 3 hours for her to open all the presents. And since I was "helping out" with the shower I felt obligated to stay and help carry those 3 hours of presents to the car. I mean I would love to get lots of gifts but I don't want to make my guests sit through all that!

yella726 · June 2014

MRSclarke08 said:

Mine would be the game "Guess Mama's Weight". That'll get someone a big serving of throat punch.

Oh my god, do people do that???? Like @dorothyzbornak97 said, I really do not like games. I made it clear to my best friend that I don't want them. In fact, I would really just like it to be a casual get together with my closet friends and family. Come in, have a mimosa, enjoy some food, relax and laugh. Good times!

hippohat · June 2014

Meh, I don't mind the games, especially ones done in-between gifts. I think a lot can be done in poor taste, but a lot are harmless.

A not close friend and her mother offered to throw me a shower for DD, just for our friends (my family had one in their home town). It was a really nice gesture, but I had no idea what was being planned. One of the games was a twist on the 'don't say baby' game - you weren't allowed to cross your legs, last man standing got a prize. Every picture has our friends sitting awkwardly with feet flat on the floor…

Eastie156 · June 2014

FamousEa said:

So at my baby shower my sister had a game of "guess the candy bar" sounds innocent until you find out it's a melted candy bar smeared in a baby diaper. The party guests had to sniff and examine the melted remains and try to guess what it was... I was mortified....

I completely snarfed my drink while reading this...

raynes · June 2014

I don't hate the guess mama's size with string one, it was especially comical at the shower of our good friend who was due with triplets.

I guess my most nighmare-ish story was the shower that was basically planned and hosted by the mom-to-be. Ostensibly it was planned by her mom, but it was pretty darned clear she was running it. Mind you, it was a very small shower but still, pretty tacky IMO (but also sad that no one else stepped up to do it in the first place).

pinkshades05 · June 2014

emzielinski said:

@pinkshades05‌ How many people were at the shower to have enough gifts to open for 2.5 hours? Showers in my family tend to rival weddings in size, and even I cant remember a MTB taking that long! Wow!

There were a good 40+ at this shower--but what took the longest were the gifts with about 50 things in them and EVERYTHING had to be shown off and passed around. It took forever...

sarah62584 · June 2014

Am I the only one who enjoys baby shower games?! I do have my exceptions...the candy bar diaper one IS a waste of candy. But overall I like to play little stupid corny games to pass the time. I am also not a fan of small talk with strangers so maybe that is why I like to keep busy!
I don't like watching the mom open her presents for more than 30 minutes.Or when they read the cards out loud *yawn*. I also am not a fan of co-ed showers. Oh or when you play a game and you receive a "prize" that is really a gift to give to the mom to be. That one really confuses me.
Yup...but I am the odd one out who loves her some baby shower games!

MissMandyD · June 2014

sarah62584 said:

Am I the only one who enjoys baby shower games?! I do have my exceptions...the candy bar diaper one IS a waste of candy. But overall I like to play little stupid corny games to pass the time. I am also not a fan of small talk with strangers so maybe that is why I like to keep busy!
I don't like watching the mom open her presents for more than 30 minutes.Or when they read the cards out loud *yawn*. I also am not a fan of co-ed showers. Oh or when you play a game and you receive a "prize" that is really a gift to give to the mom to be. That one really confuses me.
Yup...but I am the odd one out who loves her some baby shower games!

I also like games. Although in my group of friends we play more word games than some of the traditional ones. I hate the diaper and baby food ones!

cozybluebear · June 2014

My shower was a complete surprise and it was my husband's job to get me there. He's a moron when it comes to these things si he told me we were going to a Chinese Auction. I threw on jeans and a sweater, put my hair in a ponytail and went on my merry old way. When I walked in, I was mortified. I had a cute dress picked out for my shower and planned in my head how I'd look. I was the center of attention and looked like a bum the whole time in front of 75 women.

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