Sweet Baby Gifts

My sister organised a surprise baby shower for me, my husband, mum, brothers, neices, nephews were all in on it.

needless to say it was wonderful

however i got lots of clothes for 0-3 month old - my baby girl is due in dec and i have been given lots of dressses and was wondering should i go and get some of them changed into a bigger size.

so far for 0-3 months including what i received yesterday include:
8 sleep suits
14 vests
10 socks
3 tights
3 jackets
2 jumpers
11 dresses
2 dungaree jumpsuits
3 leggings
2 skirts
5 tops
3 warmer tops
4 booties
5 hats
or do you think this is ample for a 0-3 month old to get through.

that sounds about right. I would take back some of the vests though. 14 is an insane number. But trust me, you will be glad you have all those clothes if you have a baby who spits up a lot and are changing her clothes 3 times a day. It will save you from having to do laundry constantly. Also make sure you have at least a dozen onsies in size NB. Before I had my son I was always under the assumption that babies only fit in newborn clothes for a week and then went into 0-3months. My son was born 6lb-11oz and was wearing preemie clothes for the first 3 weeks, then grew into NB onsies, then grew into the NB outfits at 6 weeks. He’s 10 weeks old and the 0-3 month clothes just now fit him well, and he is not a small baby anymore. He’s now 12-1 and 23 1/2 in.

I guess though it all depends on your baby, but from my personal experience they don’t grow out of there clothes at first, as fast as people make it out to be.

Hi, I have been in the same house for alomst 8 yrs and never late on rent and no compliants are made from me.I have a two car garage and the back was a sloped down wall with dropped ceiling and so if you park a car in there the hood goes under that portion inorder to fit inside.It was leaking real bad and had ruined all my priceless baby books and my gifts from my kids through the school years were ruined beyond repair. I told him and he had a guy come repair the roof, but didnt fix the leak. I had cleaned and organized the garage after the first leak and had it nice and neat and room to go in a work out on a bag. I put a 60 gallon fish tank in the gargae, it rained and the tank filled to the top. I called the landlord and he said he’d fix it but didnt for three months. He then called me on a wednesday and left a message for me to call so i did,he told me thursday that he needed me to move my things 3 feet away from the wall so he could put a new one up and a new roof. So I told him ok that night i had school so Id do it on friday after a Dr. apt. So I was ready to go in and move my things, cover them, and take in what I didn’t want broken. I went out to the garage and the workers moved all the stuff and just threw it in a huge pile. Tons of tree cuttings, roofing crap, and nails are now EVERYWHERE inside boxes and covered all over and he wont make his workers clean it. I found out my fake x-mas tree was broken by them piling shit on top, my baby crib I was going to hand to my grandkids is now ruined from water too. the garage also does’nt look stable, the foundtion is cracking and the whole garage is leaning forward. I am really upset about this. I know i probably should have renters insurance but who can afford it. I am a good tenant and been here alomst 8 yrs and due to my current situation I don’t want to move because of my kids in school, and needed places in walking distance are here for us. I also got 3 feet in length taken away from my property size and im not sure a car will fit in there anymore. well it is such a mess i cant even see if a car will fit. What can I do ? I asked him when they would have it cleaned he said, "oh you’ll have to do it just little by littel I guess," and I dont think thats is fair or right. What can I do??? I also have some repairs around the hosue that need to be taken care of he said he’d do it in a week and it’s over a month. I had repaired a few things by myself and before I did I called and called and he never returned my calls, so we deducted from rent the cost of the new garbage disposal and then he called right away! I am thinking small claims court? I don’t have lawyer $$. I was thinking deduct from rent what I think is fair but don’t think that will fly.I usasally get screwed. And just today i tried to clean out a space to walk and got cut on a rusty nail. please help, Thank you! here is a before and some after pictures:
http://s873.photobucket.com/albums/ab300/sk8in69/Decorated%20images/

The landlord is not liable for damage to your personal property. That is why there is renter’s insurance. It insures your property against damage. Sorry.

I have a 3 month old. I work 5 hours a day, and while I’m at work my husband stays home with the baby. ( then he goes to work when I get home)

Anyways, we have a bouncer ( I provided a link to a picture of one that is very similar to the one we have)

My husband puts the baby in the bouncer, and then when my husband wants to go into another room of the house, instead of taking the baby out of the bouncer, he just carry’s the bouncer with the baby in it, to the other room. He picks the bouncer up by the left and right side of it.

Now we have an on going argument about him doing this. I think it’s very unsafe to do this, because after all it’s a flimsy little wire frame bouncer with cloth over it. I’m afraid that it could break and the baby would hit the ground. ( by the way my baby is almost 20 pounds, he’s in the top 19th and 81 percentile for his age)

My husband thinks that I’am over re-acting , he thinks that there is no need for me to be concerned. He say’s that nothing will happen.

Now please tell me, is it unsafe or not? Because my husband refuses to stop carrying the baby around in it.

Here is the a link to a picture of what the bouncer looks like
http://www.winnie-gifts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/winniethpoohbouncer-300×300.jpg
I guess I should have added this as well. We have cermaic tile floors in our home, so they are very HARD! So there is a BIG difference if the baby were to fall out of the bouncer while sitting in it on the floor, because he wouldn’t be dropping as far, AND because we place the bouncer on a small childs padded comforter when. But when my husband is carrying the baby in it from room to room, my husband is 6 foot 3 inches tall, so the child is at a much high level than sitting on the floor, so if he were to fall out of it, or if the cloth broke my child would be falling on HARD ceramic tile flooring. And I seriously doubt that it would be a little ‘boo boo’, i think it would be life threating.

is it impossible for it to happen ..no.. will it actually happen??…probably not..
i understand your concern if its something that makes you uncomfortable your husband should stop doing it,at least in front of you since he knows how nervous it makes you.

Hi there

My baby shower is next weekend and my sisters did a great deal of planning for it and putting everything together. I know they wouldn’t want me to go over the top with a gift because they’d say save it for the baby, but what’s a nice gift I can do for them? They both live far away from me and are coming to visit on Thursday and they will only be here for a few days before they leave.

Thank you!
Is there a spa or manicure or pedicure place around you? You could take them out for a girls day. You could spend the day hanging out and eating and whatnot. That would be fun!

Ok, so a while back, like two years ago, I remembered I played this game that was a room escape. I was on a safari like scene. The point of the game was to get the baby over to the top of the mountain. Some things were a Lion, a Spider…Idk. And if it helps, I remember that the game creator made the game as a gift for his neighbors 1st B-day.
The game was called something like Leons 1st Birthday….but thats not the kids real name…

So my question is…What was it really called?

room escape games list
http://www.gamedmoz.org/English/Room-Escape-Games.html

My friends and family have made it extremely obvious that I am not getting a second baby shower and to be honest it kinda has hurt my feelings. Its not that I care about the gifts because that’s not it at all, I just wanted someone to acknowledge that this baby is just as Special as the first one. Not that they made a big deal out of my first son either. They made it seem like it was a major inconvenience giving me the first shower, and this baby all I have gotten is oh your pregnant again. Its not like I have five kids that have all been born on top of each other. I have my son who will be three years older than this baby. Is it wrong for me to be upset over this? Should I just let it go that no one besides myself and my husband even care? We recently (4 months ago) moved 4 hours away from all of our family and friends and, we haven’t even gotten a call from any of them but our parents, and none of them have even asked how the pregnancy is going. Am I just being hormonal or would you feel jilted too?
I would love to do something like that, (meet the baby) but to be honest with you my messed up and aggrivating family would more than likely not show up. Oh and did I mention others in my family have recieved upwards of 3 baby showers per child. one for each side of the family and one for the people they go to Church with or friends. It like everyone else is more important.

Omg, I’m in the same boat as you. I’m pregnant with my second baby (a girl), and was hoping my family would throw me another shower (for a get together to celebrate a new life coming into the world/family).

Right? I can care less about the gifts!!!! Trust me, I have a 14mth old daughter who left me tons of baby stuff lol…My hubby was trying to get people together, but nobody seems to want to do it?!

I live 25 minutes away from my mother, and she never comes over to our place…She always says that I live too far away! That’s crap…

I’m 30wks along and I’m just gona give up on it as we cannot force people to come or care:) lol. You should just leave it be, and celebrate with your husband! Just have a few friends over if they want, and throw a small celebration party with just your friends!

Good luck with everything!

I’m in charge of planning a baby shower for my brother’s GF due in April. But the last time I was at a baby shower was when I was like 15, and I can’t remember everything that they did. I’ve been looking for ideas online, but I rather hear it from people who have been to one or have planned one themselves. It’s a for a baby girl, and we are trying to keep it simple since we will only have 15 people tops.
Here are some questions I have, please feel free to answer all or a few of them. Any other information is also greatly appreciated!

1. How many games should be played?

2. What are some fun games? Simple ones, since there will be a lot of bilingual people, and explaining long instructions will be a pain hehe. Some people only speak English or Spanish, so games that involve writing are out of the question.

3. What are some good ideas for gifts? I already got some candles, hand lotions, picture frames, and some pretty shape glasses for simple gifts. Are those nice? or are they too cheap?

4. Do people eat before they play games, or after?

5. what else do they do at baby showers other than play games and eat?

6. Do people get a price every time they play a game? (well I guess they do don’t they?) In that case, how many gifts should I get? there will be about 9 women, not counting my self, my mother, and the mommy.

7. Me and my mom are planing it, so we shouldn’t play, right? neither should the mommy to be, right?

8. what are some simple party favors?

Any information is greatly appreciated. I’m trying to make this very special for the mommy to be because she has no friend in this state, so we are trying to make her feel at home with family. I want to make it very special, but we have a budget, so it makes it harder. I’m 18 and still in school, and I’m knitting many thing for the baby on my free time, so this whole planning is stressing me out a little lol but I’m very happy nevertheless.

1. I think around 4-6 games depending on the amount of people. The more people the longer each game will take.

2. Some great games that we played at mine were:

- The classic ‘Taste the baby food and guess the flavour’,

- Get a whole bunch of magazines and each person cuts out bits and pieces to construct the ‘person’ they think baby will look like. Its quite funny - people put some strange arms and legs on my one! But they are great to put in a scrap book as a memory too.

- The classic "guess the belly size" where each person cuts a piece of string and the person closest to the actual belly size will get a prize.

- Hand everyone a token or something on arrival. Make a rule nobody can say the word ‘Baby’. If they do say it - they have to hand over the token to whoever heard them first. Whoever has the most tokens at the end gets a prize.

-We had one where everyone had a paper plate and play-dough. They had to construct a baby on top of their head (so they cant see what they are doing) mum-to-be picks her favourite and they get a prize.

3. Those gifts sound nice - as long as they arent cheap or old looking. You shouldnt really have to spend a bunch on the shower.

4. Have the snacks available so people can nibble if they like but serve the hot food etc once the games are over. Or you could play a few games and stop for lunch.

5. Talk My friend made a slide show for me which we played to everyone. It was like a timeline of my life with photos of my family and friends and things. It was quite a nice thing to have at the shower You could even paint mums toenails and things seeing as she probably cant reach her feet anymore!

6. Grab a prize for the winner of each game and maybe little chocolates for everyone to leave with.

7. The mother-to-be could pick the winners?

8. Any gestures are great! You could make a little throne for mum-to be (decorate a nice comfy seat) and she can just be…pampered!

Oh! And dont forget to put together a soundtrack for background music

I have a very difficult situation where I need outsiders to help me with.

Two years ago, my brother-in-law (29) got his girlfriend (28) of 4 months pregnant and they got married soon afterwards. I, on the other hand, dated my husband for three years and we had a nice engagment and wonderful wedding. I had to work very hard to get accepted by my in-laws being that I am not super church going Christian and not involved in church activities.

After their quick wedding and ceremony, I received a very nasty email from my new sister-in-law telling me that I need to find Jesus and I will never truly know what love us until I have a child along with other "words of advice". All of this comes from the 29 year old who did not know how to keep her legs closed !! On top of that they took the wedding gift of a car we gave them ( he did not have a car and we spent $1,000 dollars getting this one fixed up), sold it, and pocketed the money!!

I was sooo upset about the way I was treated by her and my in-laws that I just decided to ignore them and go on with my life. They live a state away so this was easier to do. I also decided to block their emails and block off communication because when I see their names I literally I get emotionally unstable and all of the bad memories come flooding back. They have also ignored me and speak poorly of me when I am not around.

Now I am 4 months pregnant and suddenly I get an email from her (she blind cced my husband to it and he forwarded it to me) stated that she is soo excited for us and wants to throw us a baby shower. I know that if she blind cced my husband she probably blind cced others in the family as well. I know her main motivation is to look good infront of the family but I do not want her to throw us a baby shower, much less have anything to do with my pregnancy or child. I chose to ignore the first email but she sent a follow-up last night along with the statement that she and her husband ( I can’t stand) were planning to come visit us when the child is born. That was the turning point for me; I DO NOT want her around me much less during this stressful time in my life.

I know that she is doing all of this to look good infront of the in-laws but I just want her to leave me alone. I want her to just butt out. How do I politely and with manners tell her that I do not want a baby shower from her, that I still have alot of pain from what happened ( I can’t shove it under the mattress and act like we are best friends), and that I just want to be left alone. I also do not want her coming to the birth or any time after that.

Please, please, I need your advice on this very delicate subject. I Just want to be left alone from my crazy sister-in-law !!

I feel your pain, my in-laws are very church going also, but to your problem. First I would just e-mail her and tell her that everything has been taken care of and that you have so much going on that you just couldn’t handle another shower. When it comes time for them to visit, tell them that there just isn’t enough time in the day for you to entertain and you have no spare time or room at your home. Tell her you will e-mail her if anything should change, but for now you just don’t see it happening. Or you could do what I did and just give her a piece of your mind. It took a little while but the family has embraced me and my sister in-law no longer tries to throw me under the bus. Congrats on the new edition and don’t take any crap. It’s your life, live it your way.

Remind her that she should not be passing judgment on anyone.

of corseee!

I am trying to think of more ideas for my BFF’s baby shower on Saturday. It is my godson so I am going a little over the top. So far I have planned:

alternating blue and white table covers with baby bottles filled with blue and white candies that hold balloons with these little rattles I got propped against it (babies that are about 3 inches tall) and table confetti that says it’s a boy.

I also got a banner that says Jenn & Glenn are Having a Boy, Congratulations on you Bundle of Joy. For their table I got a larger rattle (same concept) as well as a baby balloon (to add in with the other balloons) and diaper cake. Above the chairs they will sit while opening gifts I have an umbrella I use cotton balls on the inside to make it look like clouds hanging down over her head?

I am also planning on putting a clothes line across a whole wall to add clothes to when she is opening gifts, that way people can see them clearly.

Anybody got anymore cute, cheaper ideas? Do you think this is enough. I will have spent on decor, invites, and gifts about $400, is that enough for your god baby? I know I will spoil him rotten once he is actually here but I want her to have a really special day. No games though please, we are not game at the shower people. Below is stuff I already have, thank you all so much!!

http://www.babyshowerstuff.com/horboy.html
http://www.babyshowerstuff.com/babfacshap23.html
http://www.babyshowerstuff.com/bbaneorboba.html
http://www.babyshowerstuff.com/baitbocbashb.html
http://www.babyshowerstuff.com/boycinvite.html

As long as you have the cake and food covered that is gracious plenty.