Monday, August 17, 2009

How To Plan A Perfect Baby Shower

By Rene Lacape

A first time mother will have lots of anxiety, with regards to her pregnancy, the delivery, and life as a new mother afterwards. Before she gives birth, it's important for her to have a baby shower, where she could invite over her friends, relatives, and other significant people had already given birth, and would willingly devote their time to sharing their experiences and useful tips to lessen your fears and anxieties. A baby shower is an important event that prepares a woman into motherhood, and the event itself will be more memorable with a good preparation, solid color party supplies, a refreshing theme, and colorful baby shower confetti.

You must be aware of the health condition of expectant mother before planning the baby shower party. Friends and relatives usually decide programme schedules falling before the due date. Even though complications force for rescheduling ultimate decision maker is the expectant mother who and her husband wait for revelation of baby's gender even before the actual start of the party. If it is a baby boy, light blue color is used for decoration but in case it is girl, pink colors are chosen. Choices are abundant. Babies, angels, animals, storks and cartoon characters, baby bottle themes and Noah's ark are many alternative choices.

Where should be the venue of your party? It all depends on the choice of expectant mother. Select bedroom, living room or kitchen of your house to turn it into a traditional party. It provides comfort to you and your budget is under control. You don't need to shift gift items as they have already reached to your home. You have enough spare time while preparing food in your own kitchen. Expectant mothers with complications and high-risk pregnancy enjoy such atmosphere while lying in the bed. Her relatives and friends celebrate party and she is free from stress. You involve her in your fun party this way.

If you don't have enough space at your house to accommodate all your guests and friends, then renting out a venue or place to hold the party wouldn't be a waste of money, when compared to all the valuable tips and suggestions your friends could give you, aside from the material gifts they have prepared to be used by your soon to be crying baby. The more guests that will fill up the place, the more information you can get and use. Your solid color party supplies would surely fit in your larger venue, more space to throw out the baby shower confetti, and any theme can fit anywhere where there are walls and people of course.

Plan your party in such manner that your invitation cards reach to all prospective guests at least one month in advance. This approach help you and your guests to plan the baby shower party systematically. You have choice to mention details of your party theme, costumes if needed and particular type of gift desired in your invitation card itself. This helps your turn a bit economic and you utilize gifts on proper occasion. Do note that your invitation card should match with the party theme and solid color party supplies. Personalize these cards by modifying them in different shapes including baby bottles, animals, pacifiers etc to suit your test.

Baby shower parties remain meaningless without gaming activities. They are mandatory to keep everyone's interest charged. Name game, pin the pacifier on the baby, baby bingo, and other popular games which you make into a baby shower game are famous categories of games famous in the shower parties. These games are based upon some sort of rule. Your guests shouldn't forget to mention the list of all the suitable baby names in a certain period in the name games. Develop some more competition and provide a letter at the very beginning of game. Pin the pacifier follows the same rule as pin the donkey. What requires to be seen is proper approach. Baby shower confetti must be well prepared on each juncture when someone wins.

A baby shower party is a memorable experience the expectant mother can keep, along with all the useful tips the other mothers have given her. Those tips that she can use not only as a new mother, but also as a great future home maker are much more valuable than the material gifts that may break down over time. That's the main purpose of having a baby shower party, and that should always be present in the program list.

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