The Baby Shower

Last weekend I had the pleasure of being joined by my nearest and dearest for the part every pregnant woman looks forward to. No, not the actual baby coming......the baby shower!

An incredible afternoon at Bitton Sports and Social Club, friends and family traveled from all over the country to be there and I was so touched at the efforts people went to - not just to be there, but in the gifts they gave, and the decorations and organisation that made the day absolutely perfect.

After heading down to the venue with Kathy (Ben's Mum), and Naomi (Ben's Step-Sister), I walked in the doors of Bitton Sports & Social Club, a venue I've spent many years and events at - but I've never seen it like this! It had been transformed in to a beautiful baby shower venue, with pink and white everywhere. Pink balloons, wall hangers, games on the tables, jugs of Pimms (and pink lemonade), even miniature super hero baby-grow bunting - and of course, a lovely group of my favourite people!

I know a lot of people probably think baby showers are a bit of a gimmick or an Americanism that we've adopted, but I honestly can say it was so nice to be able to get everyone together and share probably our last big outing before our bundle of joy arrives. There were so many laughs, stories, advice and words of wisdom shared and felt like both bump and I were especially spoilt.

We played some great games, from prosecco pong to pin the dummy on the baby, from guess the bump size to a special Mr and Mrs. And even a game of 'labour or porn' where we had images of a number of women pulling funny faces and we had to guess whether it was from labour or a porn film! My friends Kate, Ursh and Will came away with a worrying 8 out 9, and
claimed the prize!

My Mum and Em (my Sister-in-Law) did an absolutely incredible job of arranging the whole event, and it was made even more special when Ben came down to join us towards the end - and share the fun we'd had. They thought of absolutely everything, even miniature baby bottles full of sweets with personalised stickers on for all the guests to take away.
Also a massive shout out and thank you to Primrose Pops who made the most incredible pink unicorn caramel and strawberry milkshake cake pops! I think bump and I could've eaten the whole thing ourselves!

After everyone had gone home and all the decorations were tidied away, we had the pleasure of being able to sit down on our sofa and admire the incredibly generous gifts that we had been given.
When Ben and I discussed about having a baby shower, it was never with the idea of receiving gifts - just wanting to get our friends and family together and celebrating with some silly fun before our beautiful girl arrives, but I think it's safe to say our little girl has been absolutely spoilt by everyone and is going to be the best dressed little girl around!

Of course there were people who couldn't make it for various reasons, but we hope they get to read this and share the fun we had - and no doubt they'll be round to meet our little Princess as soon as she arrives.

Now the baby shower is done and dusted, and just over five weeks to go, we better get off and get the nursery finished - and prepare for our first Health Visitor visit this week - it sounds ominous but I'm sure it'll be fine.

A massive thank you to everyone for making my baby shower such a perfect event and a truly incredible day.

Mummy Dinge x