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The Baby Shower
Planning your Baby Shower
Finding out your pregnant is the best news of all. Well, second to hearing the grand proposal of a lifetime.
After a successful wedding ceremony, hearing that your love has borne fruit is the icing on the cake.
For first time expecting mothers, it is a difficult and herculean task to search and look for all the right stuff and equipment the baby will need.
Moms-to-be need to list down all the things the baby would need at the soonest possible time so that little by little, each item can already be purchased and readied for the baby’s arrival.
There is another easy way to almost have it all, without getting too much headache over it. The solution is to hold a baby shower party!
The only headache mom-to-be would have is the menu she would have to prepare on that day and that is easier for her.
Now the burden of searching and looking for baby stuff is passed on to the invitees. But another concern is raised. How will the baby shower go about? The best answer there is, is to have a theme that would guide the flow of the baby shower.
There are several ways of choosing and deciding on a theme. Do you want it to be based on color? In case you already know the gender of the baby, pink or blue is used to universally represent a baby girl or a baby boy.
Or baby items such as a pacifier or a baby bottle? How about character-themed baby shower such as the Sesame Street, Power Puff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory or the Looney Tunes?
It could also be a time-of-the-day baby shower whereby each invitee is tasked to bring something the baby would need or use during that time of the day.
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Once the baby shower is finished, take stock of what is already there and not. For those items still missing from your list, make the necessary arrangments to have it readily available once the baby arrives.
Just some last few tips for a successful baby shower:
- hold it four to six weeks before the due date,
- establish a theme,
- write down the guest list,
- set the tone and size of the baby shower,
- plan the games,
- plan the menu,
- create baby shower party favors,
- and last but not the least, set the time and location, if it will not be held in your residence.
Once the baby shower is finished, take stock of what is already there and not. For those items still missing from your list, make the necessary arrangments to have it readily available once the baby arrives.
Remember, baby showers are a fun way to welcome the baby that would be coming soon enough.