Monday, August 17, 2009

How To Plan A Perfect Baby Shower

By Rene Lacape

Baby shower parties are mandatory for first time mothers, who get relieved of the anxieties linked with pregnancy. Delivery complications and post natal matters haunt them. Baby shower parties are necessary for expectant mothers to lessen such hesitations. They interact with relatives and friends who are existing mothers. They devote good time for expectant mothers in the party by sharing experiences which keep the morale of expectant mothers high. Such parties are platforms for sharing and motivating expectant mothers.

Preparing for the baby shower can be done by the expectant mother's family and friends, and usually held a few months before due date, but still dependent on the condition and if the mother can handle it. Sometimes, the couple only waits for the gender of the baby to be revealed before they plan for the baby shower. For baby boys, the venue would be probably colored with light blue items, and for girls, pink ones. But there are still lots of theme choices which can range from babies, angels, animals, storks, and even your favorite cartoon character, baby bottle themes, and Noah's ark.

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.

If you don't have enough space at your house to accommodate all your guests and friends, then renting out a venue or place to hold the party wouldn't be a waste of money, when compared to all the valuable tips and suggestions your friends could give you, aside from the material gifts they have prepared to be used by your soon to be crying baby. The more guests that will fill up the place, the more information you can get and use. Your solid color party supplies would surely fit in your larger venue, more space to throw out the baby shower confetti, and any theme can fit anywhere where there are walls and people of course.

Plan your party in such manner that your invitation cards reach to all prospective guests at least one month in advance. This approach help you and your guests to plan the baby shower party systematically. You have choice to mention details of your party theme, costumes if needed and particular type of gift desired in your invitation card itself. This helps your turn a bit economic and you utilize gifts on proper occasion. Do note that your invitation card should match with the party theme and solid color party supplies. Personalize these cards by modifying them in different shapes including baby bottles, animals, pacifiers etc to suit your test.

The games and activities which keep all participants charged up are important aspect of baby shower parties. Some famous games played during the baby shower parties include name game, pin the pacifier on the baby, baby bingo and other such famous games of such genre. These games make your baby shower party and its gaming activities seething. Your guests should be provided with the list of every baby name in the baby name game. Make this game more competitive by issuing letter at the very start of a game and remain stick to rules. Pin the pacifier follows exact rule as pin the donkey, only you pin a pacifier into a drawn baby's mouth. Make your baby shower confetti whenever someone wins in these games.

A baby shower party is a memorable experience the expectant mother can keep, along with all the useful tips the other mothers have given her. Those tips that she can use not only as a new mother, but also as a great future home maker are much more valuable than the material gifts that may break down over time. That's the main purpose of having a baby shower party, and that should always be present in the program list.

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