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The Party
A baby shower is very similar to a birthday party – except that the presents can be for both the mother-to-be and for the unborn as well (and sometimes the father-to-be too). There will be food, could be music, fun and games, appropriate to the event.

Organising
If there is one person who does not organise a baby shower, then it’s the mother-to-be, she has got enough on her plate, as it were, not to be organising this as well. The organiser could be a grandmother-to-be, sister, close friend.

If it’s a surprise baby shower then the planning will have to be very careful to make sure that the parents-to-be don’t mind (some people might be offended by a baby shower, others might be embarrassed by surprise parties). Baby showers that aren’t a surprise are probably best.

Cost may also be an issue (and one main point of the baby shower is to save the parents-to-be money), so if you’re the organiser, the parents-to-be don’t pay for it. Rope in some of the other guests, close friends and family and spread the costs around – work out a budget between you and get the cash in advance – don’t buy the stuff and then try to get the money out of people.

When and where
Having decide to organise a baby shower you need to give consideration to the where and the when.

The best time to hold it is in the last trimester, but not too close to the birth itself otherwise the poor mother-to-be will find it too tiring. Somewhere between the 28th and 32nd week is best.

The personal nature of the baby shower also means that it is more common to hold it in someone’s home than some soulless meeting hall. But who’s going to tidy up the mess? Not the mother-to-be. So if you are going to have th baby shower at her house then you best make sure that you have a team to clean up – and maybe make sure that the father-to-be takes his lady out.

To avoid these complications have it in someone’s home – who doesn’t mind cleaning up.

There is, of course, the "Absent Mother-to-be" baby shower. This can happen where the mother-to-be has moved away from an area where she had a lot of friends and family, or perhaps where the rest of the family moved somewhere else (we won’t ask why). There’s no real difference, it’s just that the mother-to-be won’t be present, all the gifts and the fun are still there, sending the gifts to the mother-to-be will have to be organised but will be cheaper in bulk than sending individually – make sure you use a trusted courier service.