Monday, August 17, 2009

Planning Your Very First Baby Shower

By Rene Lacape

A first time mother will have lots of anxiety, with regards to her pregnancy, the delivery, and life as a new mother afterwards. Before she gives birth, it's important for her to have a baby shower, where she could invite over her friends, relatives, and other significant people had already given birth, and would willingly devote their time to sharing their experiences and useful tips to lessen your fears and anxieties. A baby shower is an important event that prepares a woman into motherhood, and the event itself will be more memorable with a good preparation, solid color party supplies, a refreshing theme, and colorful baby shower confetti.

You must be aware of the health condition of expectant mother before planning the baby shower party. Friends and relatives usually decide programme schedules falling before the due date. Even though complications force for rescheduling ultimate decision maker is the expectant mother who and her husband wait for revelation of baby's gender even before the actual start of the party. If it is a baby boy, light blue color is used for decoration but in case it is girl, pink colors are chosen. Choices are abundant. Babies, angels, animals, storks and cartoon characters, baby bottle themes and Noah's ark are many alternative choices.

Proper planning is necessary before decorating the venue. Your plan should be in accordance with the health condition of expectant mother. Apply cost cutting while selecting venue and prefer your living room or kitchen instead of renting outdoor location. Entire affair becomes traditional. You also save transportation cost of gifts hence your tensions lessen when major preparations are done on the spot itself. You prepare food in kitchen and utilize spare time for other purpose. Expectant mothers with sensitive and high-risk pregnancy symptoms have good option for shower party because no pressure is required in such situations. She enjoys entire stuff simply by lying on the bed.

Look into the entire issue in a different perspective. Rent out a venue if your home is not sufficient to accommodate all of your guests. You have to spend some extra money in renting but you must think otherwise about the profit margin which you have. You are receiving valuable suggestions, guidelines, tips and last but not the least gift items which your baby or you use on the later stages. When number of guests increase, you also have best of the suggestions and beneficial guidelines. The solid color party supplies properly adjust your venue even though it is bigger. Make it attractive with baby shower confetti or some other theme which suits you best.

Sending out the invitations should be done around a month before the set date for the baby shower, to give all your invited people time to prepare and arrange their schedules. You could indicate on your invitation your theme, costumes if needed, and preferred type of gift, if you would more appreciate a monetary one, or things for your baby so you won't need to buy anymore. The invitation card should at least match your solid color party supplies, and your theme. You can personalize your card and make it into a unique shape like baby bottles, animals, pacifiers, bibs, and whatever your mind can think of.

A baby shower won't be complete without games and activities that will keep everyone's interest up. Some of the popular games during baby showers are the name game, pin the pacifier on the baby, baby bingo, and other popular games that you can make into a baby shower game by replacing some of its rules. In the baby name game, the guests must provide a list of all baby names they can think of in a certain time period. To add more challenge, you can give a letter that they must use in the beginning. Pin the pacifier follows the same rule as pin the donkey, only you pin a pacifier into a drawn baby's mouth. Prepare the baby shower confetti every time someone wins.

Expectant mothers look for something interesting which boost their morale and keep them in best of mood. Baby shower parties are meant for exclusive purposes. They are fruitful experiences for expectant mothers who are made aware of various aspects of motherhood by the experienced mothers in this special occasion. Many such tips and guidelines are highly beneficial than any sort of monetary support. These are the major aspects which make baby shower parties an important element of parenthood process.

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