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Kari


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I have had a couple of family members (one cousin and one sister-in-law) ask me if they could throw me a baby shower.  So far, I have just played it off as it is way too soon to think about that.

I always thought it was a little inappropriate for your own family to throw your baby (or wedding) shower.  First of all, I think its weird for my family to ask people to come by me gifts.  Second of all, I think my family should get to just come and enjoy and not work or prepare a party.

What are everyone's thoughts on this subject?

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HeatherLynn


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I believe, and anyone feel free to correct me, that the issue was more with immediate family. I don't see anything wrong with a cousin or SIL throwing you one!

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I hope it's not wrong for a family member to throw a party, because at least in my family the tradition has always kind of been that the godmother of the expecting throws her a shower (so it's an aunt, or other relative)

I think it's fine!

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Same here, tradition in my circle of friends has always been a family member throwing the party.

My aunt and cousing threw me a baby shower, but my mom was so excited that she was involved in every aspect of the planning and entertaining during the shower, so it was kind of like she was throwing me the shower too. I wouldn't want to deny her wanting to do it since she was so happy for us.

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My mother and sisters threw my baby shower. The same goes for my friends, their mothers threw the shower.

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HeatherLynn wrote:

I believe, and anyone feel free to correct me, that the issue was more with immediate family. I don't see anything wrong with a cousin or SIL throwing you one!



I agree with this.  In the event that no non-immediate family member is not available/willing to throw a shower, IMO it's not a huge faux pas for close family member to do it.

Now if you were on your 3rd baby and your mom/sister wanted to throw you another shower, that's when it would be verging on tacky ....



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I think it used to be more of a faux pas for immediate family to throw one, but now I don't think it is much of a big deal.

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Jahni


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Tell them I'm throwing you one! By the way...I'm throwing you one...LOL...

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I threw my SIL a shower for her 1st baby (see other post - ugh). My mom and grandmother didn't join as co-hostesses or anything because that would have been weird. SILs, aunts, cousins, etc. is fine, I think. Most showers I've been to have been thrown by a family member although not an immediate family member. I think it's fairly normal.

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This girl at work threw her own shower for her second baby.  She had only been working there like two months and invited everybody, people she hardly knew.  It was so obvious she wanted people to just buy her stuff. 



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