Baby Shower
Should you invite only women, or should you invite the men too?
It depends on the expectant mother. The baby shower is traditionally for her. But couples baby showers are fun too. So ask the mother-to-be what she prefers. Some may not feel as comfortable with other men there. OR she may like having her own husband there (who might enjoy the shower) and would enjoy having other couples there also. The expectant parents might be close friends with a several other couples, so a couples shower would be a lot of fun. Most baby showers have only the women there, but ask the expectant mother what she would enjoy the most.
We had our first baby shower. It’s strange to be a man in the world of a baby shower. Traditional, it’s woman ground. There’s games and food…both of which I like…and presents that I get to figure out how to put together. I probably wouldn’t have been there, our friends are very strict on traditional etiquette, except for the fact that my father chauffeured my grandmothers and mom, and therefore, invited himself. So I went as well. Now, I’ve always wondered why the shower is “women only”. It seems that this “baby” thing is a group endeavour, and the gifts will be for the baby or the care givers…plural, but most people I talk to have a “women” only shower. I guess we men have perpetuated that by traditional sucking at baby gifts. Any way, we were surrounded by good friends and family, and Tony has stuff now. It was great.
Thank you to all who came. You’ve made our lives easier.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
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