Babyshowers

I think snacks are essential for one!!  And yep, it's the sort of thing I'd invite my mum, sister, mother-in-law and sis-in-law to.  Mine looks like it'll be 5 weeks out from my due date, which feels a bit late to me (I say sitting here at nearly 30 weeks and feeling not-so-mobile and pretty blimmin tired) - and because the 'nesting' has fully kicked in, I'm anxious to have things ready for our baby's arrival, but don't know what I'll be given at the babyshower.  I'm assuming it'll be lots of clothes!  So I'm holding off on going overboard on them for now. 

seriously - even though most people get neat stuff from the shower - GO AND SHOP!!! does not matter how many people and pressies are from the shower, it will not be enough - go to places like tnt - they have huge sale on right now and stock up on basics - cos that's what people usually forget - they get the cute little outfits but what about the bodysuits, singlets and plastic backed bibs? if baby has a bad day full of explosions from either end - or even just little spills that weren't caught in time - you could easily go through a dozen or more.    

shower pressies are like the cherries on the top... anything you really have a surplus of can always be saved for #2, be put in a nappy bag that maybe stays at granny's house for those "just in case" times, or in the car.. and you won't miss them cos you already have enough at home.

Babyshowers are pretty cool because everyone looks out for you and you hardly have to do anything except talk and open presents And they're mostly always at someone else's home so you don't even need to make sure the house is clean first

One of the games I had at my babyshower and my sister-in-law's too, was the photo game: where everyone brings a baby photo of themselves and they are all put together and everyone has to match them up. A bit tricky if you have a lot of visitors.

The common game around at the moment seems to be identifying baby food. A lot of people really don't like this game but if you stick mostly with fruit ones it's not so bad It's much easier if there is a list of names to choose from, not all of the guests have bought baby food (let alone the first time mum! lol).

My all time favourite babyshower game is the chocolate one: the host/game organiser gets a pack of disposable nappies and about 8 chocolate bars. The chocolate bars are gently melted and smeared on - yep it looks like that! - and uses a vivid marker to number them. During the party they are handed around with pen and paper and the guests have to work out from the smell, what the flavour of the chocolate bar was. I hope that makes sense. It's such a funny game, no one really wants to smell it at first because it looks so bad! but it gets a lot of laughs and is a great ice-breaker

All the best everyone!

Well, i got the boring stuff at my baby shower, don't get me wrong, i love all i got, and greatful for it, but i did get the singlets etc. OH well, go shopping after baby, then i know what colours to buy.

I'm so excited about mine!!  I've got the 'boring' stuff as far as clothes go, so as a couple of you have said, any double-ups will be extras that are bound to get enough use anyway!  I still don't know the details of it, but I'm loving that because I think it's just great that these friends are taking care of organising it.  Now I wanna plan them for others - I'll have a newborn by the time any more are rolling 'round, so I might just have to see how that goes first!! 

I had my baby shower around the 30 or so week mark and it was awesome! I got sooo much stuff for bubs but not for myself- which I didn't mind at all. Ohh well actually they made me a necklace with one of them baby on board signs and they found a jumbo dummy at a toystore and made a necklace with that as well.

We had games like- my water broke, where we froze tiny babies in ice cubes and one was stuck in each ladies drink and the first one to have melt in their cup- they had to yell out 'my water broke' and they got a prize.
Then we had the poopy diaper game where we folded and pinned however many face washers and in one of them stuck peanut butter and whoever chose that one got a prize. Then at the end- I got to keep all the face washers.
Also we have the pop the balloon game- where we stuck a prize in each balloon but only one balloon had something special in it.
Umm- we also had to pin the nappy onto a balloon game. We did that one in teams of 4 and you had to pass it on once you were done and if you popped the balloon you had to blow another one up. And the winning team got a prize.

Then we handed around a teddy bear for everyone to sign and also we handed around a guests book where they could sign that and write in handy hints for when the baby comes and alot of them took a guess at what he'd look like, how heavy he'd be and his length.

For the food we had a variety of chips, lollies and cupcakes with the ABC on them, we had sushi and different dips and crackers, we had different sandwiches, party pies and sausages rolls, umm then just a big platter of meats, cheese, onions, gherkins etc. And for drinks we had, red wine, white wine, juice, tea and coffee and water.
There was a bit to much food but everyone liked the idea of taking a plate home with them.

Oh and for thank you gifts at the end we handed out chocolates that were wrapped in tule- which was really nice.

Honestly- if you're having a babyshower, wait until afterwards before you go out and buy alot of things! And enjoy yourself.

Not long at all!  I rekon you should have one, Deb!  Why not, eh?  You deserve it.  With so little time to go you might have to just ask a friend if you can use their house, make the nibbles a 'bring a plate' deal, and e-mail people a quick invite - a nice evening or avo with some friends couldn't hurt, especially when they're bringing you prezzies (eeek!).