young pregnancy seriously in need of help...

[supa_star323]

Hi. I am currently 20 weeks pregnant and want to have a baby shower for my 1st bubba, but have no idea what to do.
Who do I invite?
What do we do?
When should I have it?
Please help... I know I want a baby shower, but that's about all I know at the moment...
:confused::confused::confused:

[Oscar's mum]

Well for planning it is pretty much invite whoever you want to. Some people invite just females but the trend is to now invite males too! Though it usually isn't really the males scene!

You can silly games to do with baby items ie fill up bottles with juice and see who is fastest to drink! Buy a handful of baby singlets and some fabric pens and get your guests to decorate the singlets for baby!

You can have the baby shower after bub is born or before it is pretty much up to the individual.

[Brooksy]

Hi there,

Congratulations on your pregnacy. I threw a baby shower for my sister. She actually made a list of the people she wanted there, close friends, her MIL , my mum, some people invite aunties, cousins. You don't have to invite lots of people.

We had the shower at my sisters place so she could show everyone her baby's room, we had a few games planned eg had to guess what the baby food was.
another game we played was pin the dummy on the baby (like pin the tail on the donkey). Another game was guessing how big my sister stomach was, we had a ball of cotton wool and took off how much we thought would fit around her stomach.

We held the baby shower when she gave up work the month before but it 's up to you how you are feeling.

there are actually a few websites that can help you with games for a babyshower, go into google and type in baby shower games and it should come up.

Hope you have lots of fun planning your baby shower

[SassyMummy]

I had my baby shower when I had about 6 weeks to go before the due date (which turned out to be 8 weeks before she was actually born).

My friend Katie put it on for me, but I gave her a list of those who I wanted to come along. We had all women, except for one male, who was a part of my social group anyway (from high-school...lol...I am, and was at the time, 19).

We played a variety of games...In one game, we had a minute to right down a name for each letter of the alphabet. You had to think of unique names...if someone had the same name as you, you couldn't count it. Obviously, the one with the most won. It was supposed to give me a variety of names to choose from for my bub. (But we'd already chosen 1 boy and 1 girl name).

Another we had 5 mins to make a baby out of various items, including string, a balloon, a freedo and some toilet paper. We did it in group.

There were a few other games...I don't really remember them...

Then we just had some nibblies...especially me...because I was always starving at that end of my pregnancy.

The reason I had it at that stage in my pregnancy was because I looked really pregnant by then, and I think it got everyone excited. When I was earlier into it, and didn't look anything but fatter, nobody really acted like I pregnant. It wasn't until I got big that people went all crazy.

[2SPUNKRATZ]

i agree with sassy mum about having it when your bigger. people are more excited to see your cute baby belly. i had mine a couple of weeks ago except as far as i knew your not meant to plan it yourself. my 2 sisters and mum did mine, i just gave them a list of people to invite. we played games with cute but inexpensive prizes like nice smelling bars of soap and loofahs and things like that.

games we played were :

guess the size of my belly with a piece of wool
memorise 20 baby items on a tray then get 1 minute to write down as many of them as you can remember
guess my weight (that one was embarressing)
guess the birth date and weight and if you dont know the sex then that to.
guess the baby food

and then i just got to open pressies. be warned, i was so excited about my baby shower my whole pregnancy but once it came to it i felt really overwhelmed by it all. try to relax and enjoy it and not to think you have to get around to talking to everyone. people will understand.

have a great pregnancy and i hope you have a great baby shower when it suits.

jess