When it comes time to have your baby shower, there are so many different options for what you can do. Most baby showers however, will involve some silly games for the mum to be, her female friends & family members to play.

The prizes you choose for your baby shower games can be anything you can think of, generally though the prizes are pampering or baby related items. If the mum-to-be knows the gender of her baby perhaps your prizes can be pink or blue depending on the gender.

Following are a few of the most popular baby shower games.

My Water Broke

You need to set this baby shower game up a few days prior to the party. Collect some miniature plastic babies from a discount store. Freeze the babies in ice cube trays with some water.

On the day, hand each guest a plastic cup with a frozen baby inside. The aim of the game is for the baby to melt out of the ice cube, but without the player touching the cube itself. The guests can blow on their ice cubes or melt them any way they can think of without touching. The first person to have their baby to completely emerge from the ice cubes shouts “My Water Broke” and they receive a prize.

Don’t Say That!

This baby shower game is ongoing throughout the course of the party.

Give each guest a nappy pin to put on their clothing, as they arrive. They are also given a word that they cannot say, popular words are baby, mum, due etc. If the guest says the forbidden word and is caught out, the person that catches them out takes their nappy pin. At the end of the day, the guest with the most pins is the winner.

Some alternatives are to use dummies tied on ribbon as a necklace as opposed to pins. Or to make forbidden word, the name of the mum-to-be and everyone has to call her mummy for the day (mum-to-be has a different word & cannot say baby).

Guess Mum’s Size

This baby shower game has the mum-to-be stand in the middle of the room with her guests around her. Each guest has to estimate the size of mum’s tummy with a piece of string or ribbon. They are allowed to look at her but not go near.

After everyone has made their guess, the hostess of the party takes each of the guest’s strings and measures the mum-to-be around the biggest part of her waist. The guest with the closest length is the winner.

What’s In the Nappy Bag

This is another game that needs a little bit of preparation in advance. Purchase a nappy bag and a group of items that belong inside. For example, add a dummy, packet of wipes, nappy, singlet etc.

Give the guests a sheet of paper with numbers listed down the side (20 if you have 20 items). Tell the guests that they have to write down all of the items inside the bag. If they need to, each guest can have a feel inside the bag for 10 seconds to give them a helping hand.

Once everyone has filled in their answers, pull each of the items out of the bag one at a time and have the guests mark off one point for each item they correctly identified. The person with the most correct answers wins.

As a bonus to this baby shower game, the mum-to-be gets to keep the nappy bag and the contents as a gift.

Name the Baby Food

To play this baby shower game you need to purchase a few jars of different flavoured baby food. Number each of the jars on the base, write down what flavour is in each number jar and remove the labels.

During the baby shower, each guest has a small taste from each of the jars. On a piece of paper they are to write down which flavour they think is in each jar.

When everyone has had their guesses, reveal what was in each jar. The guests receive a point for each correct flavour and the winner is the person with the most correct guesses.

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A lot of baby stuff out there is pretty bland and generic. In stark contrast is the boom in simply gorgeous, high quality, unique baby things being hand crafted by a growing legion of creative people.

The internet is now well established as a way for these artisans to make a living making things by selling to customers like you. Here are just three places to look online for some handmade treasures for your baby, saving you hours of walking through markets.

Georgielove.com.au

Sally from georgielove.com.au was the first in Australia to realise the huge potential of using the internet to allow independent artisans to bypass markets to sell direct to customers.

Her gorgeous website has a lovely selection of Australian maker’s handmade stuff for babies and kids. The advantage of using georgielove.com.au is that you can buy from a number of makers on the one order as Sally is the central distributor of everything on the website.

Etsy.com

Etsy.com is a huge online network committed to allowing makers of handmade treasures to connect to buyers. Creative people all over the world have set up their own shops on etsy.com selling their baby’s toys, clothing, furniture, accessories, art, and quilts. With a strong Aussie dollar buying something handmade from somewhere like the USA or UK and having shipped home is quite affordable.

Or, you can stick to buying local by checking out the Australian stores on there. However, finding an local maker of baby stuff isn’t that easy. You can search by location but no further selection criteria is offered – you’ll just get a long list of all Australian makers of all sorts of things (which isn’t that bad if you want to look for something for yourself too!)

Madeit.com.au

Like etsy.com, madeit.com.au is an online marketplace for makers of handmade delights but it is purely Australian. It is a real joy getting in contact with a local maker and maybe being his or her first customer. From fun bibs to colourful change mats, personalised wall hangings to pretty nappies, the creatively of these makers is exciting to see.

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When getting ready for baby it can be hard to see a good buy amongst the huge range of products on the market. Not everything is essential, but some things can be very handy and can pay off if you sell them after you have finished with them.
Judging by current prices for new products and the popularity and prices being paid on www.ebay.com.au the following are four baby items that hold their value well. When you go to sell these, in good conditions, you can expect to get half to two thirds of your money back:

1. An electric breast pump: If you are breastfeeding an electric breast pump, especially a double one, will greatly speed up the process over a manual pump. These are more expensive but considering they hold their value well it is worth looking into to save you precious moments of time to hopefully give yourself a break.

2. Bumbo®: The Bumbo is a very popular specialised baby chair designed to support baby’s posture. It can be used over a long time, being much better value than items baby will grow out of or tire of quickly (e.g. a baby swing). You can use it from when baby had good head control, around three months, which is much earlier than when you can safely use most high chairs. It is light-weight and small, so it is convenient for when you wean onto solids as you can place it anywhere.

3. Grobag®: The Gro Company makes the original and still the best baby sleeping bags designed for safety, comfort and a good night sleep. They are carefully designed to reduce the chance of SIDS and to keep baby covered at night rather than kicking off her blankets. Even Grobags in not the best condition sell well second-hand.

4. Stokke Tripp Trapp®: There is a real shortage of these second-hand, probably because you will use it for years. The Tripp Trapp is a beautifully designed chair for baby that will grow with him into adulthood. It has a foot rest that moves as he needs it to and a back rest which supports him into the right position. The Tripp Trapp is quite expensive, but the long-ranging benefits you can experience with it plus the high resale value and rarity of second-hand chairs means your investment will pay off.

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Heigl honoured her friend with a lavish, star studied bash as her home in Los Feliz, Los Angeles last Saturday. They celebrated their pal’s journey into motherhood by inviting 25 friends, including their fellow Grey's Anatomy co-stars Kate Walsh and Sandra Oh, to the outdoor bash held under giant umbrellas in her backyard. The umbrellas were to shield the guests from the heat – L.A. temperatures reached a hot 104 degrees on Saturday. Pink flower arrangements and candles accented the tables.

Guests brought gifts wrapped in girly pink and yellow colours. Many of the gifts – which included a Sleep Sheep toy mobile, Sleepy Safari stacking toys, organic hooded towels and a Kiddopotamus organic swaddle wrap – came from the Juvenile Shop in Sherman Oaks, where Pompeo is registered.

Pompeo, who is expecting a daughter in October with husband Chris Ivery, was also joined by Rebecca Gayheart, the wife of her Grey's co-star Eric Dane. A guest said “Ellen looked gorgeous in a white summer dress with her hair in a braided up-do. She seemed very excited to celebrate with her girlfriends."

A few days ago Pompeo was spotted preparing for the event by sharing some special time with socialite Nicole Richie, who is also expecting.

Pompeo has not let her pregnancy slow her down. When not busy filming new episodes of Grey's Anatomy, she is also making sure that she keeps in shape with workout sessions at a local gym. In addition, she and Ivery are remodeling a new home. She knows how to keep her self busy!

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It’s really a chance to have a girly day or night with friends and family, for the mother-to-be “showered” with gifts and for women to cluck over babies. These presents were traditionally all for the baby but more recently presents also include pampering for the mother such as spa treatments, bottles of Champagne (for after the birth) and so on. In London hotels such as The Berkeley are doing special ‘baby shower packages’ which include a private suite for between 10 to 15 friends, decorated with Diptyque candles and posies of McQueen’s flowers, a delicious afternoon tea with pretty cupcakes and fondant fancies, baby-themed iced biscuits and tea sandwiches, complemented by coffee, tea, juices – and, of course, pink champagne, exclusive decorations and treats, from sparkly Swarovski table crystals to goodie boxes of Mama Mio baby treats, sourced at your request and lollipops and miniature hand-tied bouquets for guests when they leave. In Australia, The Baby Shower Shop (www.thebabyshowershop.com.au) is a one stop shop for everything you need when organising or going to a shower. This celebration is big business!

If the Berkeley is a little out the way then try emulating it at home – you could even hire a beauty therapist to come and pamper you and your guests. There are no fixed rules for a shower, you can have it wherever you like and do whatever you like. We probably wouldn’t recommend it but baby showers have been known to be held in bars and for a male stripper be a present! Whatever you fancy it should be a day that’s special for you.

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