Baby Showers – Then and Now
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Baby showers can be a lot of fun for the mother-to-be and her friends. It is a chance for them to celebrate the new life and to “shower” the mother-to-be with love and gifts. Since time immemorial, every culture has had ways of celebrating the beginning of a pregnancy
It used to be that gifts were given to the mother after the baby was born. It was often just an afternoon tea party for the mother and her close female relatives. The gifts she would receive would be generally handmade and almost always very practical. Generally they would have a shower only for the first baby in a family, the one that first make the “mother-to-be” into a mother. And there would usually be just one party given for that baby.