Free Baby Shower Ideas
Free Baby Shower Ideas
In need of the perfect gift for your best friend’s Baby Shower? Here’s a few great gift ideas every mother to be will appreciate:
Large and Bulky, but Essential Items: Cribs, strollers, bassinettes, playpens, baby bath tubs, baby rockers, car seats, feeding tables . . .
Items that are on the “must have” list of every expectant mother; while new is always best, purchasing these items second hand will still suffice in most cases. After all, these are typically “high ticket” items which most will be more than happy to save the costs of buying themselves even if the piece is slightly used. As a plus, many of these items can be found very gently used at a fraction of their original costs via local parents looking to make room for new children’s furnishings as their baby gets older.
Small (in size not impact) Essentials: Clothing, bedding, diapers, wipes, powder, oil/ointments, bottles, foods, baby safe body wash and shampoo . . .
More “must have” items, those which typically have a short shelf life and will need to be replenished often. Clothing items from 0-24/months, multiple boxes of diapers and wipes; these are all items which run out in a flash, so the more of these types of items you can give, the better.
Not so Essential Essentials: Toys, mobiles, learning DVDs, books . . .
All the fun stuff for baby and mommy/daddy to enjoy together. These types of items make great supplementary gifts, or primary gifts when given in quantity. A gift basket filled with some stuffed animals, a few books, and a DVD or two for example.
Then there are what I like to call, the “Forgotten Essentials” – Those items often overlooked by gift givers and receivers alike, until the parent is in need of said item. This is but a small sampling of the types of items that would fit in the “Forgotten Essentials” category:
Digital Camera – A high quality point and shoot to capture all those special moments.
Baby Safe Laundry Detergent – Since a newborns skin is quite sensitive, it’s always best to wash baby clothes in detergents specially formulated to be safe for baby.
Diaper Pail – The mother to be will love you for remembering this one for her!
Tote Bag – Useable before she goes into labor as an overnight bag, and afterwards for all the babies’ outside essentials.
Baby Monitors – Always a great item to have handy for when the baby starts napping in his or her own room.
Baby Silver (or plastic as it may be) ware – Baby safe utensils, plates, bowls, cups, all those necessary things for teaching baby to eat (semi)solids.
Baby Proofing Items – Gates, door latches, outlet plug covers, all the many many devices used to keep baby safe.
Finally, there is one last category of gifts which is commonly overlooked: Gifts for the Mother to Be!
With all the focus understandably on the little bundle of joy, the expectant mother deserves to be spoiled a little too; be it before or after giving birth. Some great gift ideas include:
Service Oriented Gift Certificates – Massages, spa treatments, and other services meant to relax and rejuvenate are big winners for any new mother.
Performance Passes – Give the mother to be a well deserved night out with a couple tickets to a highly anticipated new musical or performance in town.
Gym Memberships – Many women feel the need to “get back in shape” once their baby is born, so help them enhance their body image, and their happiness, by giving them a membership to a local fitness club.
In all, there are so many wonderful gift options for the expectant mother that no list could encompass them all, but following the options on this list will surely make your gift list much easier to fill.
J. Conboy has a diverse range of interests; from Hawaii real estate, to baby products, even specialty laundry detergent (yes, laundry detergent,) and many more topics for which you can read his thoughts about on his blogs and here at EzineArticles.com
when did you have your Baby Shower?
I am 17 weeks pregnant with twins, and I would like to know when other people had their baby shower, either with one baby or multiples, it doesn’t really matter. I know I still have a few months, but everybody is asking me when I’m having my baby shower. These are my first children, so I don’t know what to expect at a baby shower or what to do. If anyone has any fun ideas of what to do at a baby shower, feel free to share! = )
Hello, I am 36 weeks pregnant with just on bubs 
I had my baby shower when I was 28 weeks, because my friend was moving shortly after that date. I am glad I did it so early, because I can’t imagine having the energy to do it now! Especially if you are having twins, You will be even more tired than me!
We played a couple of games at my shower
One,where we filled up a bottle with jelly beans and you had to guess how many were in there. Whoever got the closest won a prize. We also did baby bingo, where we everyone got a card with baby related words on it and some one had a box with all the words cut up in side.
We also did the game where you get a piece of string and you have to guess how long the piece would need to be to go around the mums tummy, as well as a game where we got groups of people together with Magazines and they had to ‘make’ the mums baby, that was fun!
Oh and one more! Where we froze jelly babies in ice cubes and put them in water and whoevers ‘water broke first’ won. We did that in the back ground
Other than that, just have a little bit of food and drinks and some music playing and let the socialising commence!!!!
Best of luck!
J
xx
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