Baby Shower + Best Online Baby Shower Gift List Set Up;)

I agree with not hosting your own shower. Its okay if its at your house, just you should be the focus not the hostess.

Registering:
Target
Walmart
Babies R Us
Baby Universe

Just be sure to check the return policy. Ex. Burlington Coat Factory will let you return stuff, but only for store credit.

If no one ends up volunteering to host a shower, then it is okay for you to have/host a baby 'meet and greet' a few weeks after the baby is born.

2 moms found this helpful

Dear B., Don't do a shower for yourself. Don't do it at your house. A it's tacky and B you will not want all that work of cleaning up and prepping your house before and after. Get a friend or relative to host this. If nobody has the space, do it at a restaurant. babiesrus and amazon are probably best. Buybuybaby is also good.
Fun games like buy a bunch of bibs and onesies and fabric markers and paint and have all the guests decorate them. Hold a contest for the best one and have prizes. Crossword puzzles with baby things. Blindfolded babyfood taste contests. Speed diapering contests. There's a ton.
But don't host your own shower!!

1 mom found this helpful

First question: Are you having this shower for yourself? I hope not. Next would be
decorations and food and drink.

Congrats on your pregnancy!

Are you planning a shower for yourself? That it generally considered tacky, as a shower is a party given for the purpose of giving gifts to the guest of honor. Soliciting gifts for oneself is never proper.

Target is a great place to register. Best of luck to you!

Dear B.,
I've blogged about baby showers and helping moms do a baby registry for Discovery Toys....here's one post to check out, but you can search for the others at my blog:
http://billiediscoverytoys.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-ho...
If you have a close friend or relative who would make a shower for you, feel free to put them in touch with me and I'll help them.
Good luck with everything,
B.

As many others have already said... you don't throw yourself a baby shower. I'm hoping that you are looking for ideas for the hostess who IS throwing the shower. If someone hasn't already offered to do so, your husband needs to start calling women in the family and see if they are planning or would be willing to host the shower.

I just did my niece's shower and the next thing you need to do is plan out the food and games, if you would like them. We didn't do any at my niece's because she didn't really want them.

Your hostess will need to do:
- Invitations
- Paper goods
- Food & Beverages
- Dessert
- Decorations
- Favors

Target and Buy Buy Baby are both great places to register!

I like Kaboodle.com. You can add gifts from any site to this one central location. Although I think Amazon has recently changed to allow you to do this as well.

But I also agree with the other people's advice about not throwing a shower for yourself.

I recently hosted a baby shower and I didn't want to have the same ol same ol shower game. But, there was one game I was referred to that I had never heard of before. It was the candy bar game. The baby shower candy bar game gets guests to participate by matching a candy bar with each and every stage of baby's development and arrival.

For Example:
Pregnant Belly=Chunky
Conception=Skor
Hospital Bill=100 Grand

What I did was list the stage of the pregnancy on one page with a blank line next to it. On another page I had pictures of all the candy bars. The guest had to choose from the pictures and write down next to the clue which candy bar they thought fit right.

PM me if you'd like me to email you a full listing of clues as well as the sheet of candy bars.

It was a really fun game. A game that no one had ever played. The Soon-To-Be Mommy loved it so much she told her Mom's group about it.

Hello and congrats on your new baby... let me tell you that I love baby showers. Your next step is to plan the games out. Google baby shower games you'll find tons of it... make a list of your favorite ones and get everything you need from them you also need to buy decorations depending on your babys sex ballons,table covers,centerpieces,etc.. if you don't know what your having yellow is a color for both..I almost forgot you also need to plan the food and drinks.. good luck.. pm if any questions..