Hello my readers, I am getting to plan my baby shower for May; I am planning a virtual baby shower so there are no germs exchanged between my loved ones.
I have been very careful with COVID-19.
I don't want to take any risks. I think that a virtual baby shower in May will be ideal for me and Baby T. That way I will be 31 weeks.
I have asked others who have had virtual baby showers or attended virtual baby showers for advice. I have gotten a lot of helpful tips, games that others enjoyed, and the idea of opening presents before the baby shower and showing what I have received.
I am concerned because I want to use Zoom, but most of my family is not tech savvy and I want them to attend easily. It is important to me I include the less tech savvy family members so they don't feel left out and confused about the idea of a virtual baby shower.
My mother was very stressed about the idea so far.
I am gathering addresses for her to send a hard copy in the mail for the baby shower, but I then need to send a virtual link out to have everyone attend on zoom.
I also need to figure out how to send our amazon registry out to loved ones so they can just send things directly to our house. We have had that set up for a while since we have chiefly used amazon for our baby shopping so we don't have to go out in person; we have been following reviews and articles written about the safest baby products. I am sure many of our loved ones will get us things not on our registry and they could mail them, drop them off or we may pick them up without contact in person or distanced with masks.
I am terrified to get covid at the end of our pregnancy and have to deal with that while being uncomfortable with the end of pregnancy, or worse, not being able to deliver and hold Baby T upon her arrival, I remember at the beginning of the pandemic I heard so many stories of mothers who didn't get to meet their babies right away.
I am thinking we can do a few easy virtual games.
The rest of the time we could show off what we have gotten her room and my belly. I think this actually makes baby showers so much less complicated, once everyone gets the link all set up. I attend Zoom meetings weekly for my counseling and have attended family events with our roommate and gotten to chat with his family while staying safely distanced.
My husband thinks we can use his account, this would allow us to have more guests and more time with everyone on the call. The free version cuts you off after a certain amount of time.
But if we are hosting the event, anyone else will attend with no time limit. I am looking forward to getting everything together and not having this small event planning to think about, that is one reason I don't want to do this any later than 30 and 31 weeks. I also fear that Baby T will be an early baby.
We have bought all of Baby T's things that we feel comfortable buying before having the baby shower and seeing what gifts we get, regarding cloth diapers, clothing, and burp rags. Our registry is mostly clothing, diapers, pacifiers, Boppy accessories and baby Bjorns. I had pretty specific desires for our baby girl.
We can order what we need after the baby shower.
That is another reason I want to be sure we have adequate time to get those things together.
Our baby needs clothes, swaddles, diapers and pacifiers when we bring her home from the hospital. I know the outfit I want to put her in for her trip home, the one that we used in her announcement, our little rainbow.
I have created our invitations because I think in order to include people best, we should send invitations via mail.
And do all follow-ups in email or text, which most of these loved ones I can connect with via social media or text.
I will also create a Facebook event to share information, I just want more formal of an event than virtual baby showers normally are.
My mother has offered to send out the invitations, which would be fine, I have just come up with the wording on a sample invitation off of Zazzle. I can send the link to my mother and see what she thinks about it, if it's something she would like to write out her own or just order these invitations and then I can mail them out just as easily.
The invitations are the most elusive thing to me at this moment, because any event I have been invited to via Zoom has only been communicated via email, text or Facebook.
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