‘Baby Spritz’ what fresh hell is this?!

[Sleepeatcrochetrepeat]

I’ve declined, politely, as it’s a colleague I hardly know having this event anyway.

Baby Spritz? How is this different to a shower? More pretentious maybe?!

Just when I think the world can’t get any crazier, I am reminded that I have had that thought before.

Any ideas on the difference though?

I'm friendly with a woman who was quite a famous singer in the 70s and she told me she went with the late Karen Carpenter to a really posh baby shower in the states in around 1973. She said the gifts these posh rich folk were giving were quite remarkably expensive and she was glad she had never heard of a baby shower because she turned up empty handed and had a good excuse!

Maybe she wants to have a baby shower because it sounds fun but doesn't want the implication that people have to bring a gift?

I don't think it's nuts for Americans to have a tradition where friends and family chip in for big ticket items - it's just how it works there. In the UK it's not that uncommon for grandparents to buy a big baby item, they just don't have a party to celebrate it at the same time. And if your friends/family are doing this because it's a tradition then it makes sense to have a list so you don't get irrelevant things.

It is weird when people take half the idea of an American tradition, apply British cultural norms to it and then complain about it.

However OP if you don't want to go it's fine, just decline politely.

My DiL was embarrassed when her sister set up for guests to pay to attend her baby shower. She paid for the whole thing.
She was then shocked when those who gave gifts at the shower, gave gifts when the baby was born too!

PS There’s nothing if you google it, maybe it’s a grammatical error? 😂

I’m the same age group as you and have been to one, not through choice. My boss told me she was giving me a day’s leave - for her baby shower! Lose double 😩

My friend organised one of these for me - it was a get together before the baby (my first) came but with no gifts expected! However the invitation was clear - It said please no showering with presents. Come, eat cake, have fun, no gifts please.

Having a baby is not about the baby anymore its more about the mums.

I'm 47 and find these horrifyingly naf and grabby, see also gender reveals.

And the Instagram content!

So mang people describe themselves as Digital Content Creators - in other words they post endless boring pictures of themselves doing mundane things that nobody cares about.

Totally agree with you @LarryIsMyRomanEmpire

oh yes please! though I'm well into per M now so I guess that party ship has sailed 🤣 ideally people could come, commiserate at how tired/achy I'm feeling this week, bring me snacks and wine then leave by 10 pm

Now that would make perfect sense. Gifts for feeling low.

Yess! Let's normalise M with a Pausal Shower! Everyone comes along with food and wine and stuff and gripes about how sh*t it is and how they don't care about stuff anymore! Then watch a female empowerment movie and go home

Me too. Like the Aperol Spritz version of a Babychino.

Ok this came up on my weekly roundup email and I'm shamelessly commenting in the hopes @Sleepeatcrochetrepeat has done some investigating and comes back with more info!!

My friend tried to throw me a baby shower and I shut it down immediately, each to their own but definitely not for me! The Pausal shower though I can absolutely get onboard with given perimenopause has arrived and turns out she's a bitch