Baby Shower Concern

Re: Baby Shower Concern

• mhwood member

  July 2015

  Typically, it is the friends/family who throw the baby shower...however, there is no hard and fast rule that says it has to be. However, as you are getting so much negativity about it, I would be cautious about spending a lot more time and money on it if you don't know that people are going to show up.
  

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• GingerTurtles member

  July 2015

  It is absolutely wrong to throw your own baby shower. That's not "lack of support" -- that's trying to prevent you from alienating all of your friends and family.

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• Bigboobsmcgee member

  July 2015

  kathie92 said:

  Am I the only one throwing my own baby shower? Everybody has been telling me that I'm not supposed to throw my own baby shower and been kind of putting me down. Me and my fiance spent a lot time and money planning this baby shower and it just seems like we don't have any support. I don't know what to say or think anymore. Can somebody give me some advice?

  
  Everyone is telling you that for a reason. A baby shower is to welcome you to motherhood and you don't throw a gift giving event for yourself. If you've already spent money and planned it then go ahead and have it but it's not typically done this way.

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• kaityhylton member

  July 2015

  A baby shower can also just be a celebration of your baby with friends and family. Nobody is required to bring a gift, and if that's their issue then maybe include that on the invitation. But if nobody had offered to throw me one, I still would've had one. There is no sense in you missing out on a celebration and a important part (if it is important to you) of pregnancy just because you didn't have anyone kind enough to play hostess. If you inviting friends and family to a celebration for your unborn child "alienates" them, then maybe they aren't great friends. All my family was THRILLED to come to mine, and if anyone is offended then they can just not come and by all means are not required to bring a gift
  

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• GingerTurtles member

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  kaityhylton said:

  A baby shower can also just be a celebration of your baby with friends and family.
  

  No. A celebration of the baby is a Sip n See, and occurs after the baby is born, so the guest of honor can, you know, actually be there.
  
  A shower is, by definition, a gift-giving event. Want to celebrate the mother-to-be without making gifts obligatory? Don't call it a shower.
  

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