Please post some ideas for a baby bash (baby shower). Is it a good idea to throw one on the due date? This way the pain will be more bearable with good friends around. Thanks a bunch!!

In my opinion I do not think you should throw a baby shower on your due date because what if you do go into labor and the party is interupted. It should be a day when you know that u are not going to go into labor. It is suppose to be a day that you celebrate before the baby is born.

I am giving my cousin a baby shower on May 24th; her due date is July 14. Usually people give showers a month or two before the baby is born, but not close to the due date. I would not think on the due date or around it would be a good idea-personally, I wouldn't like that if I were the mother-to-be. She will be very emotional and trying to get ready for her baby at that time and will not know exactly when it will be- the baby could come before her due date, too.
Having the shower a couple of months earlier will give her time to have everything ready- to see what else she needs after her shower and take back anything she needs to return or exchange, like duplicates.
I was looking at shower games last night online- go to google and type in "baby shower games" or "baby shower ideas" and you will find a whole list of ideas.

Have the baby shower at least a month before the due date. Make a game about having guests pick the date, wt and time of birth and keep these, they are fun to look at after you give birth and see who got the info the most right. Send them a nice card, or maybe a little trinket, you can have a friend drop off to them. We had little candles made for about 25 people and on them it said that when the baby is born light the candle and make a wish for the child. So when the people addressed plain envelopes from our thank you cards to themselves we put them in a bucket and had the mommy to be pull out the 25 winners. And we had special gifts there for the first time grandmothers, or greatgrandmothers. It made the crowd go awe... You can pass around a tray with baby items on it and then have a contest on who could remember the most things on the tray. You can give everyone a baby pin and when someone hears someone say baby, you get their pin, and at the end the person with the most pins wins a prize. Instead of cards have the guests bring signed childhood books for the future baby. Or you can put in the invitations if the guests bring diapers or whipes they receive a special "thank you prize" Just some thoughts!!!