When Is the Right Time to Give a Baby Shower?

I would do the shower before she is halfway thru month 8 just in case the baby comes early. That way she will have her things and have time to organize everything before the baby.

I agree with the 7-7 1/2 month time frame. I am pregnant with my second baby and I am about 7 months now and will be having both of my showers within the next month. It gives time to be sure you have everything you need that you may not have gotten at the shower and/or sort through, sterilize and put away the stuff you did get. It's very sweet of you to throw a shower for your friend.

Some fun games are having people cut a piece of yarn to the size they think mom-to-be's belly is and then measure...closest wins. You can also play baby bingo. Make a blank bingo card for all the guests and tell them to fill in the blanks with baby items they think the person might get as gifts. As she opens the gifts, they mark their bingo cards and you give a prize to the person who gets bingo first. You could also do a game where you have a tray full of baby items and you have someone walk around the room with it letting each person examine it. The idea is that they think they are supposed to memorize what's on the tray. Then, when the person takes the tray from the room, you tell the guests that they are actually supposed to write down what the person was wearing that was carrying the tray around (right down to jewelry and shoes).

Best of luck and have fun with the planning!

Most showers I've attended or hosted have been 4-6 wks before the delivery date, however, the best one I've hosted was three weeks after delivery. This allowed the new mom to really get an idea of what she not only wanted but needed. Her family had held a "family only" shower a few weeks before she was due giving her the items for her nursery of immediate need, crib, rocker, changing table. Regardless of when it is, she'll be thankful!

Fun Games:

My mother-in-law had all of us fill in nursery rhymes, how good is your memore? We also did the traditional toiletpaper squares game: everyone pulls the amount of squares from a roll of toilet paper that they think will wrap around mom-to-be belly once, the closest one wins! We also did the baby food game: remove the labels from 6 jars of baby food and make the guests try to guess what they are.

As a event consultant I always advise people to do the the showers about 7-8mths. You want to give the mother to be enought time to get all the stuff and gifts aways and still have time to buy things she will still need. I would stay away from 9mts because you just never know when that baby is really comming. If I can help you any other way let me know!
Good Luck!!

My family usually plans them during the Mom-to-be's 7-7 1/2 month also. Send the invitations out about 3 to 4 weeks ahead of time, especially if you have out of town guests. Here are some sites to check out. If you want more, type "baby shower games and ideas" into your search engine. Have A Great Time!

http://babyshowers.info/
BabyShowerGamesAtoZ.com
www.babyshower101.com
www.funattic.com/game_babyshower.htm

I will have just reached the 6 month mark when my family is throwing me one and to me its perfect timing because it still gives me three months to pay for all of the things I still need to buy after the shower.

hi.there S. first of all thankyou and your husband for saving are country.well thats really nice of you to give your friend a baby shower well i had my first baby shower when i was 7halfmos.they way i had time to get what esle i needed for the baby that i did not get at the shower.and to be able to get everthing set up for the baby with out having to rush around like crazy to get ready for my new joy to life so i would go ahead and plan one for her.and if yall dont know what the baby is you can buy blue and pink stuff just make sure to keep the tags on the stuff in case you need to take something back.but what my friend did was got alot of yellow&green lots of stuff like that.the games we played was give each person a roll of toiletpaper and have them to guess how big your friend belly is and tear this size off & and buy little baby bottles fill with water and see what person could get done first and they would win a prize.see how many people can say what time the baby will be born and when the baby is born if that person is there and there time was right then they get to hold the baby after the mother does.hope everything works out for you.

I think that you are going to get several different answers to your question. However, in my opinion, you should aim for around 7-7 1/2 months. This way the new mom will have time to sort through her gifts and have time to exchange/return anything that she does not want or anything that she got 5 of!!! We all know how pregnant women can be with the whole "nesting" thing. It will just give her ample time to put all her ducks in a row, so to speak.
Margaret:)

I think and have seen family and friends do this too.When it came to a baby shower they would wait to at least the 8th or 9th month.I think it would be better to wait cause then you actually know what the person is going to have.You don't wanna spend money on something and then it be the opposite sex of what you bought.Like when I had my second baby the doctors keept telling me it was a girl and then when I had the baby it was actually a boy.