Baby shower?

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Okay ladies, I know I can count on you for advice and support. What are you all doing for baby showers?
Covid has made everything so tricky. I'm planning to do two separate immediate family showers (to keep it small) I feel awful for not inviting friends but I think it would be way too many people. We have elderly on both sides of the family and wear masks around them. I'm sure the situation with COVID will be the same in a few months so don't plan on that changing. I have a good amount of friends but not really a friend group per se so i don't expect anyone to throw one or do a friend one, which I'm ok with but feel bad not inviting any. I think they will understand. 
Anyways, I get anxiety about pretty much everything so wanted to see if this was normal and what you ladies plan to do.

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I’m super anxious about mine. My mom is throwing a joint shower for me and my sister since we’re due within a week of each other. It’s in 2 weeks and it’s outside. There’s about 40 people coming and I know people won’t wear masks or social distance, and will be all about hugging. My family pretty much thinks I’m being crazy and too much with being safe about Covid. They are all less safe than me. I would really rather not have one or have a virtual or drive by shower. I’m in NJ and cases have started climbing here again. The 40 people is primarily my family and our friends and some of my sisters husbands family. 
My husbands family all pretty much live out of state except for my mother in law so my sister in law is throwing me and my other sister in law (who is due 2 weeks before me, babies everywhere!!!) a joint zoom shower in November which I’m much more comfortable with.

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I am probably not the norm here but I really don’t want a baby shower but my work is insistent on throwing me one with maybe 5 people only. These are the people I work with on a regular basis with masks on. They contacted my husband because I refused to tell them what I want and he doesn’t understand why I am so resistant. I honestly don’t know. I have never been one to want a baby shower or even a bridal shower and given the climate it’s hard to do this safely I rather just forgo it.

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We did 2 zoom baby showers.  It was actually nice.  More people could come than if we'd had it in person bc I have a  bunch of family who live 800 miles away from me.

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These are definitely strange times indeed. My sister-in-law kept asking if she could throw a small outdoor baby shower and I finally agreed to it. The only thing is we are doing it early (I’ll only be 22 weeks) because I don’t know how bad things will get with flu season and if I can even make the drive out to Texas. My parents and some of my closest friends are there though so I did want them to be able to celebrate with us and we will all be wearing masks that she said she will provide. I guess ultimately you should do whatever you are comfortable with whether that’s indoors, outdoors, online or not at all. Hopefully we can all do something fun and safe to celebrate our babies!

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My friend I met monitoring just had hers this weekend. It was a drive by baby shower. There was a car parade to the house and outside she had a table with refreshments and goodies. It was an hour long. I would do the same thing but its going to be very cold when it's my turn.

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It was really hard making the decision of what to do with baby showers. We decided about 6 weeks ago to have two different showers. One with my husbands side of the family and one with my side of the family. 
I really wanted to have it outside to lower the risk for everyone and since I’m in New Hampshire and it’s already pretty chilly out, we decided to do it a bit earlier than normal. It will be in a little less than two weeks when I’m 24 weeks pregnant. Probably better to do it early as I’ll have more energy and be able to do two back to back days of baby shower activities. 
Thankfully my side of the family is smaller so I was able to have my friends come on that day so the total is only about 20 people. 
It is definitely a hard decision to make and I really don’t think there is a right or wrong choice. Just make the decision that you are most comfortable with and try and enjoy your day whatever choice you make 🥰

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It is such a weird time to plan a baby shower! 
I’m having an open house shower in two weeks. It’ll be 40-ish people to cycle thru between 11-2. Since I’m in Michigan, we’ll be inside but the goal is to not have people sticking around and hanging out. I have pink masks at the ready, all pre packaged foods and asking for people to not wrap gifts because I’m not trying to sit around and open things.
I’m not comfortable with hugs at this time and I really hope people are cautious! I’ll be wearing my cute pink mask haha

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I don’t think anything is normal right now. Do whatever you feel is best and safest. Since it will be too cold to do anything outside where I live when the time comes to do a shower, we’ll likely do something virtual. I saw someone mention doing a drive-by shower in their garage with a heater, so people could come 1-2 at a time. That’s another option. It just sucks that we worked so hard to finally get our babies and now we can’t even celebrate normally.

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