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Date Posted: August 25, 2018
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Baby Showers are a Waste of Time and Resources

Baby Showers

Baby Showers

Recently I saw a comment on social media along the lines of holding baby showers is a waste of time and resources. The person suggested that people should have business showers to celebrate entrepreneurship Instead.

I like the idea of celebrating entrepreneurship. I like the idea of coming together to support a friend with resources to start a new venture. My question is, should one thing replace another?

My point is that being social beings, we value the different expressions of friendship. Holding baby showers is one of the many expressions of friendship.  It’s surrounding yourself with positive influencers whose attributes eventually rub off on you.

The aspect of surprising a  mother-to-be with your presence and gifts is heartwarming. It is not even about the gifts, it is more about the thought behind the whole event.

Some initiatives like Still A Mum hold rainbow baby showers. Rainbow babies are babies gotten after a miscarriage. The baby showers are held for a group of mothers who are expecting rainbow babies. They get to talk to gynecologists, nutritionists, and other specialists during the events. This promotes safe motherhood.

See what the evolution of an idea from one concept can do? Ideas are great and people need to act on them. If the idea to start business showers appeals to you, then by all means, start it. I even think that it is already being done in chamas– small investment groups. Just don’t discredit other peoples’ choices of expressing friendship.

We would be doing a disservice to our social lives if we decided to block certain aspects and concentrate on others. I think that we need to be balanced in life. Having some extreme point-of-view makes one come out as a bitter person who is not happy for others. I will talk about some reasons for women not wanting to be involved in such celebrations in a later post.

I am not discounting the fact that everyone is entitled to their opinion, and the right to express it. On the flip side, judging other people for their choices is also wrong. You don’t know everyone’s story.

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Date Posted: March 9, 2017
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The ‘Business Idea’ that was a surprise baby shower.

Synopsis is her favourite word at work, so her colleagues temporarily nick-named her unborn baby.

My sister is in her third trimester. Over the weekend, we held a suprise baby shower for her, that didn’t turn out as planned, yet was still a big surprise.

Planning a surprise is a hard task, if you already know how difficult it is to surprise a person who knows and openly vows that no one can surprise them. Her workmate approached me on Facebook and shared the idea that I had been toying with for a month- what were we doing in the days of no technology? God bless Zukerberg.

We formed a WhatsApp group in January and added close friends who contributed toward the big surprise. Each one was to buy a gift of their choice for the day.

The problem with groups that have people who have never met, is that sometimes it gets so quiet you can cut  through the thickness of the silence.

We had the challenge of holding on to our phones so that she doesn’t accidentally see the group. She got curious of why people were denying her access to their phones, but could not connect the dots. I even had to suggest that we change the name of the group to something other than ‘Sellah’s baby shower’, just to be on the safe side.

The successful ‘business idea’ that was full of laughter.

One brilliant colleague of hers changed the name to ‘Business Ideas’. This was so hilarious. Thinking of it later, I thought of what collaboration between ladies can result to. Something great.

Sunday March 5, 2017 was the planned day. I spent the night in her house, and woke up to tidy the house. She woke up an hour later and found me busy at work. She never suspected anything. We had someone to pick her and take her for a pedicure, while others sneak into her house to do the decorations and prepare the snacks.

She didn’t even spend thirty minutes at the pedicure place. She complained of how she was tired of sitting and wanted to go back to her house. She had to return without the pedicure.

When she entered her house, she wondered what the balloon was doing on her wall. Then went to her kitchen to find her colleagues busy at work. That was a surprise big enough. All along, she had been planning to do a home makeover before her maternity leave, because she was expecting her colleagues to visit her after the baby’s arrival.

I came back from church to light insults of how I was so stupid to have been part of the surprise planning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy International Women’s day to all the new friends I made on Sunday. Happy Women’s day mama B. I hope you soon find a better name starting with a B for your last born other than Synopsis.