Virtual Baby shower

[justhereforthecraic]

Hi ladies,
just wondering if anyone has any tips/ideas for a virtual baby shower?

TIA

My number one tip would be this...."use the pandemic as an excuse not to have to throw one/attend one"

You can have one outside now surely. Or just wait till the 17th May.

Although I’m sorry to say I have to agree with @BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz. I won’t be having one and wouldn’t attend one, virtually or otherwise!

My tip is to not have one.

Again I'm going to suggest not having one. I'm not a fab personally of baby showers. I feel they are counting your chickens a bit. Better to wait until baby is safely here and have a party to welcome them to the world. I didn't have one and honestly I didn't miss out on anything.

That said, I went to a virtual baby shower over the weekend.

We did a bingo game, and two picture games called labour or loving and bump or beer.

There were soooooo many technical issues though. Honestly it was painful at points.

unfortunately its for my sister in Ireland (im in the UK)...so restrictions are still pretty tight over there

In an ideal world, we would all just have gone for a nice meal or had a get together in her house . I know her husband says shes keen to do something so we came up with this idea.

Yes it does sound torturous but i know she will love it!

I'm all for a last hurrah with friends (dinner or drinks with friends towards the end of the pregnancy) but more as a way of acknowledging "you probs wont see much of us over the next 6 months as we work out which way is up" - but it would have no connectiong with the baby / no gifts / insistence it was not a baby shower.

Baby gifts should be done after the safe arrival of the baby.

@Twizbe to be honest, im not a huge fan of them either..... im currently 6 weeks pregnant and have told my family that im not wanting one

ive been to the most cringiest baby showers (completely americanised) but i have also been to some lovely ones where we all had a nice meal, exchanged gifts and chatted. More of a get together than a so called shower

We did this for my best friend. Arranged balloons and brownies to arrive on the day. Also people attending sent her little cards to open on the day in advance. For the session itself we did a couple of virtual games and quizzes, she really enjoyed it.

For what it's worth I normally hate baby showers (as does she) but this is a hard time to be pregnant especially with your first. You don't get to share the normal excitement if you're in lockdown, and so I think she was especially happy to have a bit of fuss made of her and mark her pregnancy.

@Toomuch2019 thank you so much for your reply!

yeah i know my sister would love that everyone had made a fuss of her and i love the idea of having stuff delivered to her. I think a few of the guests are going to send gifts/cards so she gets them on the day. It is her first baby

once lock down is lifted and i can get back to Ireland, we will have a little celebration when the little one is here