Are Baby Showers Supposed to be a Secret?

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Everyone I've spoken to seems shocked that I know about my baby shower and that it's not a surprise. I didn't realize it was so common to have surprise baby showers.  I personally like knowing because that gave me time to shop for a dress and I formed a lot of my to do list time line around the babyshower date.  Are baby showers supposed to be a secret from the mother to be?

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My friends threw me a surprise shower and I showed up 30 minutes after a nap, in jeans, no makeup and a messy bun because my fiance said we were going furniture shopping. It was sweet and wonderful but don't think there's anything wrong with knowing about your shower!

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I've honestly never heard of a surprise baby shower

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Mine isn't. I'm helping plan it, because I want things to be a certain way, and not the way my MIL and SIL would do it if given free range.

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I know about mine lol as my sister is organising it and I've wrote a list of people to invite lol.. x

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Mine was a surprise, but I wish I had known😄 still was a lot of fun😆😉

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No but most women are just given a date and that's it. That's what I did to my sister. She knew she needed to be dressed nice but comfy and be ready to leave her house at 2 and that was it.

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I'm pretty insistent to at least know the date. I hate full on surprises and need to prepare myself for these type of events. Plus I have a ton of stuff going on around the shower time and can't possibly keep an open schedule.

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I knew I was having one, but had no idea when or where. I was suspicious every time I left the house. Lol. I am having another shower, kind of against my wishes (because we never expected to have one for another child, but we had a house fire and family and friends are being insistent about throwing one for us) and this time around I will know when and where it is. And that is only because I asked and explained that I was super stressed out not know when the first shower was and made my anxiety go crazy.

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I've never heard of a surprise baby shower. I wouldn't have gotten a registry ready or made time to look nice if I didn't know what was going on. That would be super stressful lol

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My mom wanted to organize for me since I live abroad and she was visiting. She didn't know any of my friends here so I had to help with the list.

Are Baby Showers Supposed to be a Secret?

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