My Alternative Baby Shower – A Baby Blessingway: Baby Showers are seemingly essential these days. The phenomenon has spread from the US to the UK and all too often celebs are papped attending, and/or leaving with pink or blue balloons and voluminous goody bags. It seems to my momma-trained eye that baby showers are the new black, they are the place to be seen, they are to a child-bearing generation what Pacha is to Ibiza. Upon my recent pregnancy I toyed with the idea of a shower and even got as far as setting a date and venue. But the thing is, despite me being half American and having baby showers in my blood, I could not justify the fact that in having a shower I was essentially asking for presents. Being half British it seemed there was something a little vulgar about it. Indeed my spiritual and soulful inclinations were not content that the first event I would ever hold for my child was one so centered on rampant consumerism.
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