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How many baby showers are too many?

Arik5405

Arik5405

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A friend of mine's sister has had 4 baby showers during the time she was pregnant and is now having an "after the baby being born baby shower". This is their first baby so maybe it's ok that they have that many? I always thought you had 1 maybe 2 showers? My finance is 3 months pregnant right now and neither one of us have heard of having 4 showers let alone a 5th one after the baby was born.

I guess I'm just not sure if it matters or if they are breaking some sort of baby shower etiquette or not. But it doesn't seem like they would need this many showers just to get free stuff. The couple has always loved trying to be the center of attention so maybe this has something to do with it?

I don't know, let me know what you guys think....
 
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overkill.

but the couple doesn't plan their own showers so if they had four others threw the showers for them.

the "after the baby shower" is really over the top. how much stuff does ONE BABBY NEED?
 
I thought most people had 1?

My wife just had one a couple of weeks ago, and we got tons of money and gifts, I wouldn't mind having a couple more :twisted:
 
SlitheryDee said:
4 plus an after birth shower sounds like more than is customary, but if everyone's having fun who are we to judge?
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Yeah I agree, no reason to judge, but I was just asking out of curiosity because I'm new to the whole "baby on the way club" and thought it was a little strange they had so many showers. I guess if people have thrown 4 showers for them there's nothing wrong with that, but the after the birth shower has me a little confused though. I guess just because I've never heard of it happening before.
 
I live about 2 hrs from my parents so my wifes friends had one for her and then we drove back home and her family had one for her, other than that way too many
 
Ask my wife.

There were no baby showers and she didn't even get her own bridal shower. She had to share hers with my sister.
 
She should be able to have as many as she wants. However, each person should really only need to attend one. If she knows enough people for 5 then have fun.
 
Gigantopithecus said:
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Originally Posted by SlitheryDee
4 plus an after birth shower sounds like more than is customary, but if everyone's having fun who are we to judge?
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who doesn't like a good after-birth shower?
 
that's retarded.

my friend had 2 and it was sorta justified because her family lives far away... her mom hosted one baby shower that was just her family / family friends, and then she had a second shower in the town where she lives that was her friends and coworkers.
 
Usually somebody else plans the showers and usually they involve completely different groups of people. Ex. I have a friend who had 4 - 1 thrown by her local friends, 1 thrown by her coworkers, 1 thrown by her maternal extended family in Long Island, 1 thrown by her paternal external family in central NY state.

It's not like she decided to throw herself four separate parties so that she could get lots of presents.

Now if you're throwing yourself showers and grubbing for presents...that's kinda tacky.
 
Arik5405 said:
A friend of mine's sister has had 4 baby showers during the time she was pregnant and is now having an "after the baby being born baby shower". This is their first baby so maybe it's ok that they have that many? I always thought you had 1 maybe 2 showers? My finance is 3 months pregnant right now and neither one of us have heard of having 4 showers let alone a 5th one after the baby was born.

I guess I'm just not sure if it matters or if they are breaking some sort of baby shower etiquette or not. But it doesn't seem like they would need this many showers just to get free stuff. The couple has always loved trying to be the center of attention so maybe this has something to do with it?

I don't know, let me know what you guys think....
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4 baby showers alone is attention whoring. The bolded confirmed it.
 
gimmewhitecastles said:
4 baby showers alone is attention whoring. The bolded confirmed it.
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The reason I would agree with that is because of the shower after the baby is born. She isn't pregnant anymore and probably isn't getting all of the attention she received during the pregnancy. Now that the baby is born maybe she's reaching out for any more attention she could bring to herself and her baby?
 
I can't understand why there is not one person in their life who hasn't told them to get a grip and stop attention whoring, I would do that in an instant if I knew someone like this
 
SAWYER said:
I can't understand why there is not one person in their life who hasn't told them to get a grip and stop attention whoring, I would do that in an instant if I knew someone like this
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There is no way you would tell someone you actually knew irl this.
 
Sometimes people with large families and lots of friends have a lot of parties to celebrate just to satisfy everyone who insists on having the couple over. Those gatherings might be called showers, but a registry and such might not always apply. My wife and I had one baby shower but there were a few things that her parents organized so all the families that knew my wife as she grew up in her home city could see us, plus her parent's colleagues, etc.
 
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