Communicate Creativity

So! Your best girlfriend just announced she has a blessing on the way sometime in the next nine months. You want to throw a baby shower, but you begin sweating as you try to figure out not only how to pull it off but also how to make it memorable and fun.

The first nightmare is the schedule. How in the world can you get every important person in this woman’s life together all at the same time before the baby graduates from college? Don’t try! Babies are blessings that have room for more than one celebration. Get some help from others and have more than one party that includes different circles your friend walks through.

Remember! You do not have to be the only host. Share the opportunity to bless New Mom. Work with the other hosts to create an invitation from sites like Tiny Prints that mentions all the parties you want to have and invite guests to attend as many as they like.

Here are ten ideas to celebrate New Baby and help New Mom.

1) Stock New Mom’s freezer. Anyone who has had a baby knows the postpartum period consists of “Feed baby. Change baby. Try to sleep.” There is rarely time for a shower, let alone putting meals on the table. Research Once a Month Cooking, have a plan, and fill New Mom’s freezer with easy and nutritious meals.

2) Right along with stocking the freezer, host a Pampered Chef party and give New Mom the prize pack. When she feels up to cooking again, she can have some pretty new tools to cook with.

3) Gather the crafty people in New Mom’s life, and create a group project for the baby. You could sew a quilt, crochet booties and hats, knit teeny-tiny sweaters, and more. The gift is only limited by the skills of the crafters.

4) Spoil New Mom! Give her a complete spa treatment including manicures and pedicures. It will be awhile before she has time for such things again.

5) Celebrate the older siblings. Get them shirts that say, “I’m the big sister,” or, “I’m the big brother.” Older siblings can feel left out when it comes to preparing for a new baby. Make them feel special too. Tell them all the advantages of being the older one, and teach them some skill that they can use to help mom after the baby comes.

6) Decorate the nursery. Decide on a theme and create a plan with New Mom. Then go! This keeps New Mom from having to deal with paint fumes or being too long on her feet. Give her a nursery to enjoy without breaking her own back to get it.

7) Many hands make light work. New Mom is probably realizing how difficult it is to clean house the closer her new arrival comes. Come and give her house a good top to bottom cleaning. This would be especially wonderful to do while New Mom is in the hospital meeting New Baby.

8 ) Name that baby! Parents agonize over this job. A name is so important. A person’s name should sound like music to that person. Try to make the process a little more fun. First have a race to see who can come up with a name for every letter of the alphabet. Then get out the baby name book, and look up the meanings of everyone’s favorites.

9) Build a scrapbook about New Mom. Have everyone bring a picture of New Mom and a letter to the baby. Each person can design at least one page. Put it all together. Voila! New Mom will keep it always.

10) Pretend you’re all artists. Pull out the markers, crayons, colored pencils, chalk, and whatever else and have each person illustrate how they think New Baby will look. This would be a great activity for older siblings to participate in as well. Then use a website like MorphThing to digitally predict New Baby’s looks. Later, add a real picture of New Baby.

So there you have it. The road to motherhood has been traveled many times before, you can still make it a unique journey for your friend, New Mom. She will not forget.

Tags: Host a Unique Baby Shower, Rebecca Burgener, TwitterMom Contests