Baby Shower Question

In My Humble Opinion
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A coworker just had a baby and is having a baby shower next week. It is a casual drop in sort of affair, no games or anything like that. In fact it’s going to take place at a restaurant. This restaurant is right down the hall from where we work, and the people who work in our industry treat this place as like a home base. We know the owners by name and it’s not a reservations sort of place. Very casual all around.

She created a regestry for this shower, but a few months ago when she left work I got her a gift. When I got her the gift I didn’t know there would be a shower, or that I would be invited.

Do I need to get her a second gift for the shower, or is it assumed that the first gift is her gift.

2

It would be nice to not show up empty-handed, grab a pack of diapers and stick a bow on it.

3

I’ve never been the new mom at a baby shower, but I’ve been to dozens of them and even have thrown 2 of them myself.

Even in the tiniest of showers I would have never noticed if someone didn’t have a gift with her name on it during the gift-giving.

I agree with chillywilly though - if it’s small enough that people will see you arrive, I wouldn’t come empty handed.

4

Yea, I thought as much. If I have time I think I might whip up one of these dolls. She is the type of person that would get a kick out of it and I have all the stuff needed.

5

I might do the diaper thing but I think you’re covered either way.

My friend and I just attended another friend’s wedding shower. On our way, my friend confessed that she never brings a gift to showers because “it’s not like anyone notices anyway.”

6

That’s adorable!!!

7

This is a fantastic idea. I’ve had friends who’ve had multiple showers, just lots of women love babies and want to throw their own ‘Baby Snuggling’ event (I personally had 3 - I would have been delighted with one!)

When I’ve been invited to multiple events, the largish gift is reserved for the first event and then I bring a small hand made item to subsequent events.

For instance when a girl friend had her son I brought a Cloud 9 Giraffe and a hand knit hat to the first event, and then a double thickness receiving blanket and burp cloth I made in her nursery fabric to the second event. The blanket/cloth probably cost $10 for the fabric and about 30 minutes to sew, but she really liked them and then I didn’t feel weird arriving with nothing for her to open from me. She wouldn’t have minded as she knew she had the previous gifts from our family, but the lady hosting the second event may have thought it was a bit weird.