When I first read about baby showers but before I first heard it said out loud, I wasn’t sure if it was shower as in a bath or shower as in show and tell. Showing made more sense to me because it was a baby that has not been seen before and babies do not take showers usually.
Baby showers (at least in my area) are done in the last part of a pregnancy. They’re used to give gifts and useful items to a new parent(s) to prepare for the coming of the child. (Baby clothes, diapers, stroller, etc.)
It’s also a party to celebrate the birthing parent (and more recently, the non-birthing parent) as a last hurrah before they’re tied up with new baby for months.
It’s also typically a bigger deal for the first child, and either omitted or toned down considerably for subsequent children.
Well normally you have the shower BEFORE the baby is born so unless the pregnant person knows a cavalier radiologist, I don’t think you’ll be seeing a baby at a baby shower.
When I first read about baby showers but before I first heard it said out loud, I wasn’t sure if it was shower as in a bath or shower as in show and tell. Showing made more sense to me because it was a baby that has not been seen before and babies do not take showers usually.
I was fairly certain it wasn’t baby shower as in
now I’m not sure. Maybe it is a show and tell of the baby, because the baby has never been seen before.
Baby showers (at least in my area) are done in the last part of a pregnancy. They’re used to give gifts and useful items to a new parent(s) to prepare for the coming of the child. (Baby clothes, diapers, stroller, etc.)
It’s also a party to celebrate the birthing parent (and more recently, the non-birthing parent) as a last hurrah before they’re tied up with new baby for months.
It’s also typically a bigger deal for the first child, and either omitted or toned down considerably for subsequent children.
Well normally you have the shower BEFORE the baby is born so unless the pregnant person knows a cavalier radiologist, I don’t think you’ll be seeing a baby at a baby shower.