What Is The Best Time To Plan A Baby Shower
Baby showers provide a great way to spend some time with your close friends and family and being showered with a lot of usueful gifts for your new baby is also good fun. A further great thing about a baby shower is that it is reasonably easy to plan, though deciding exactly when you should hold your party can sometimes present problems.
For first time parents holding your baby shower before the birth makes perfect sense as you almost certainly will not yet have any baby gear and you will need all sorts of things the moment the baby arrives. But, a shower is also the ideal time for family and friends to see the new baby so that having the shower after the birth also makes perfect sense. So, here is some advice which you might find of help when making your decision about timing.
One advantage of having your shower following the birth of the baby is that your guests are going to know the gender, name and birth statistics of the baby. A knowledge of this makes it much easier to buy gifts, especially if the gift is something which needs to be engraved. Also, holding the event a month or so after the birth allows you time to get back to looking your ‘best’.
Holding the shower after the baby’s birth can also work particularly well when the baby is a second or third child because usually you will already have all of the basics to hand and your friends and family can concentrate on purchasing essential everyday necessities like diapers and clothing.
But, holding your shower before the baby arrives means that you, instead of the new child, can be the focus of attention. All eyes will be trained on you and you can get all the pampering. Additionally, having looked through all of the gifts you are still going to have another month or so to shop for those items you still need to have. Of course many expectant mothers know the gender of their unborn child and have already chosen the decorations for the nursery so gift giving can still be specific. Planning for your shower in advance of the birth also gives you something to look forward to at a time when you may well be simply wishing that your pregnancy was over.
Yet another thing to think about is what you wish to play by way of games for your baby shower. For many people games are an important part of any shower and the games that you choose may well differ depending upon whether you hold the party before or after the birth. There is a huge range of games available including such things as baby shower trivia games and these also need to be considered when thinking about when to have your shower.
Deciding exactly when you should hold your shower is really something that needs to be done on a case-by-case basis, but you must not delay your decision as no planning can be done until you have decided upon a date. If you are going to hold it before the baby arrives then you should think about scheduling it during the seventh or eighth month of your pregnancy and, if you are going to have it after the birth, then it is a good idea to wait at least four to six weeks after the birth to allow yourself time to bond with the new baby and for the two of you to get used to each other.
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