When should you start to plan a babyshower?

Don't feel bad about throwing yourself a shower. It isn't traditional, but what is traditional anymore??? I would suggest that you get someone to help you though. I read an answer that said baby showers don't take a lot of work...and that is NOT TRUE!! A successful shower takes money and effective planning. I am five months as well. My aunt is giving my shower in March and I'm due May 20th. I'll be 32 weeks at my shower. I would recommend having your shower around the same time. At eight months, you're gonna be more irritable and tired. Baby showers take a lot of work and can cause some stress--definitely what you DON'T need at this joyous time in your life! My shower will be a bit different from traditional ones--I'm the only one who won't know the sex of the baby until I actually get there. I do get to approve the invitation design, but that's as far as my work with the shower goes.

You can get several ideas, themes, games, etc by googling baby shower. Oh, and be sure and get your invites sent out at least 3-4 weeks before the event--definitely 4 weeks if you have out-of-town guests. We made sure not to plan it too close to Easter. People usually spend a lot of money the week before and need to recover the week after. You have to be considerate of your guests as well.

You should register at places like Target, Babies-R-Us, JC Penny, etc. These places have online & in-store registries--you want it to be as convenient as possible.

Congratulations on your new addition and Good Luck with your shower!!!

Well you usually have them in your eigth or ninth month.

You can send out invites like a month before the day. YOu don't want it to be to early so they forget or too late so they don't have time to plan.

You can start planning the games and food now if you wanted. Putting a baby shower together isn't that much work.

There are some good baby shower websites our there that will help with ideas.

At mine we played this game were a person held a bowl in there lap filled with cotton balls and then held a empty bowl on there head and was blindfolded and then used a spoon to scoop the cotton balls out of the one bowl into the one one your head. it was so funny. People thought they were getting a lot and they were't. I recommen this game.

Then we did who could get the most clothes on the baby in a min. LIke we had a baby doll, diaper onsie outfit and only one min to see who could get hte furthest.

Then we had pin the diaper. Where one diaper has poo in it and when the guest arrive they pin one on there shirt and at the end who ever gets the poo wins.

ANd then we had numbers on the bottom of our plate which ever one was drawn won.

We just ate snacks and pizza and of course a baby shower cake.

Opened presents.

And just hung out.

Oh and if you get gifts with ribbons on them if you break them you will have more children. And you are suppost to collect all of the ribbens and bows and pin them to gether to make a crosage for you to wear.

Oh and we did that thing with the necklace, where you swing it over you belly and if it goes one way you next will be a boy or a girl. YOu'd have to look up online which way is what sex.

ANd we gave out candles as a gift to everyone who came. And then we have prize packs with like bath stuff for the game winners. And if you have other kids, they should get a gift to so they don't feel left out. And then some people should get you some mommy stuff.

Hope this helps

And i really don't think it matters if you plan it yourself. I mean my mother in law was doing mine, but I pretty much did it. I had to wrap all the prizes and get all the stuff. Invite all the people. She pretty much just had it at her house.

And if these people are your friends nad family they shouldn't have a problem getting a gift for your baby.

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I am the same way about not wanting to wait for other people, but my suggestion would be to talk to your friends about organizing the shower with them! I was once invited to a baby shower at a hotel where I not only was asked to buy somethng off the registry, BUT pay $25 for each for myself and my husband for the lunch and alcohol. Needless to say, not only did I not go, but I don't speak to this friend anymore because her invite was so tacky and low-class. So, my best suggestion would be to talk to your friends and maybe even plan a co-ed shower! Good luck.

You want to have your shower at least a month out from your due date. That way there is little chance you'll go early and not have the items you need for the baby, and you won't be too far along and too huge that you'll look horrible in the pictures and be too tired to enjoy it.

So work backwards from about 6 weeks before your due date. You should have invitations sent about 3-4 weeks before the event, so you'll need an invite list a week or so before that to get the invites completed. That's when your shower-planners should start.

People don't throw showers for themselves. It's bad etiquette. People let others do that for them. The mother may have a meet the baby shower after the birth where people can but don't have to give gifts. And they are usually give at around 8 months.

You should not throw a shower for yourself - it is rude. Someone may already be planning one for you anyway, as they usually are a surprise. A shower usually occurs around 7-8 months of pregnancy.

Its extremely tacky to throw your own baby shower

Its usually given by a relative or close friend no sooner than 2 months from due date

Its really rude and thoughtless to throw your own shower. Very selfish indeed. Quite the social taboo, since people are trying to do something for you to be nice, its just demanding their gifts and niceness when you put it together yourself.

But anyway, generally you have a shower between 7-8 months. Invites should go out atleast 3 weeks in advance.

Usually you have the shower around the 7-8th month. I would start planning it now. If you are going to have it at a hall or restuarant you need to book it now. When Spring arrives things will be booked up.