A baby shower. But this time it’s for dad.

One of my closest girlfriends Trish is having a baby soon and a few of us are planning a baby shower for her. So far, so good.

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I had a baby shower with my husband there and my friend's partners.. I'm not really so much a girly girl and didn't want it to be all pink and frilly with too many games... so we just had more of a celebration with our friends than anything. It was great and all the guys said they enjoyed it smile

there* shame.. bad English lol

We had a "last night of freedom.....for a while" party for both of us instead of a baby shower. Was fantastic grin

I just did a backyard bbq with mates, DF and mates partners included. Was just good food and soe laughs. No games or anything. Few people gave presents, but wasn't really the idea of it. I had bought everything already. Will be doing the same again with this bub, as it's not a "shower" of sorts, I don't feel bad having another. It's just a party top celebrate our upcoming member of the family.

I am a bit traditional, I had a baby shower for my first bub, GIRLS ONLY, cause thats how its supposed to be, all the girls gooing and gaaing over the teeny weeny clothes etc.
I was a bit annoyed with my girlfriend when she was pregnant, myself and another friend offered to throw her a baby shower, we had it organised, invites and all, but it had to be post poned. she then went and planned the shower on her own, with her partner and all his mates invited. none of the men really cared that it was a baby shower, they just hovered over the BBQ with their beers, but mum-to-be still insisted that we wait for them to be ready before opening gifts or playing the games we organised. it wasnt as fun with the guys there.

I also had a baby shower where my DF came along and he invited his friends.
I thought it was nice to celebrate our pregnancy together with our friends and family. It made it more real for DF. And was lovely to have my dad there to celebrate.
I don't have many female friends so for me, if i had a baby shower, girls only, the only people there would have been my 2 sisters lol

DH had organised himself a "baby buck's night" about 2 and a half weeks before bub was due. Pretty much just crawling from pub to pub with his brothers and mates. Turns out I was induced 2 days before this baby bucks and had DS the night before! So the baby bucks turned into the "whetting of the head"!

Hubby and I had a baby shower with all our friends and family there - guys and girls alike. We made it a brunch, had heaps of yummy food, didn't play any 'shower games' but had a bunch of old board games from our childhood for people to play if they wanted to and also had a baby clothes decorating table which was very popular with the guys and girls alike - we got some really fun creations! Overall it was a great way for both of us to celebrate becoming parents and to do it together. smile

I have brothers and am an only girl. My husband has sisters and is an only boy. We had family, friends and kids at our baby shower and it was so much fun. Everyone appreciated being included. We had all the traditional requirements of a 'baby shower' and it was so awesome seeing the different generations getting amongst it all and enjoying the day. It made me glad that our baby would be part of such a wonderful group of people and no one missed out on the celebrations.

My friends had a combined baby shower where the women and their partners came along. All the women went into the lounge room and played the games and talked babys, whilst the men stood outside looking in. They did the blokey things like drinking beer, pats on the back etc. It was great because the father was quite clucky and I thought it was a good way for him to be involved in a blokey kind of way.

I suppose it depends on what the father is like.

I quite liked what our friends did and suggested the idea to my husband. He was happy for the baby shower to be a girly thing. Saying that, he loved going through all the gifts everyone got us after the baby shower. Being our first baby, he was so clucky.

A couple of weeks after our baby girl was born, my husband had a BBQ and beers with all his mates to "wet the babys head". He got some gifts from his friends, but he mostly a time to celebrate with his mates.