The sun was shining, the wine was flowing and 17 of my girl friends were boarding the H20 Floating Restaurant on the River Thames in Richmond which was decked out in banners, balloons and table confetti and my long awaited baby shower had begun!

I had decided back in April to host my own baby shower rather than leaving the responsibility to one of my loved ones, as I knew exactly what I wanted and how I wanted it to be done (yes I really am that organised and bossy – I think the pregnancy has made me even worse, apologies to my husband!!)

I discovered the amazing website ‘Shower my baby’ while carrying out my extensive research into what baby showers were all about and the reasons behind them, and I just knew instantly that Stephanie was the right person to help me with my plans after falling in love with the ‘Modern Day Mum’ range – Thank you Stephanie for all your help, advice and update e-mails!
We had the boat for the whole Sunday afternoon, but the time just flew by as we ate (too much), drank (some of them way too much!) and played the numerous games I chose from the website, ‘Attributes’, ‘Nursery Rhymes’, ‘Baby Food’ (sorry to the girls for making you eat the baby mush and guess the ingredients – URRGGHHH), but my favourite game by far was ‘Guess the baby photo’. Trying to prize baby pictures out of some of my friends was harder than it sounds, but in the end everyone agreed it was a brilliant game and caused the most laughter! Well done to Becky and Hannah F who won first prize in the quiz!!

I was totally spoilt by my wonderful girl friends who ‘showered’ me in gifts, wrote the loveliest messages in my keepsake book and gave me fabulous memories which I will cherish forever! So I guess all that is left for me to do now (once I’ve finished writing my ‘Thank You’ cards) is to have our baby ‘Pip’, which I’m sure is going to be a whole new adventure in itself……!

It was great finding a UK based online company such as Shower My Baby with such an extensive range of products. It is very hard for me to organise a surprise party for my wife as this is the only secret I am keeping from her and as I have found from our year and a half of marriage, wives find out everything!!

As you can imagine, we are both a little stressed at the moment as we are mid-moving house and Catherine is over 30 weeks pregnant with our first and theoretically she could pop at any time! I know she really wants a Baby Shower but because of all the issues at the moment she does not think she is getting one – I hope the surprise doesn’t bring on any contractions!

Shower My Baby made my life a lot easier with simple selection and ordering of products and quick delivery. I would recommend it to any husbands looking on this site as if your wife/girlfriend is pregnant – you should be doing something to help her for a change!! Mark Bartram

The Shower was excellent and your Party Pack with the advice booklet made it the success it was. Following the advice in the booklet and planner made the party preparation so much easier and the whole thing went so smoothly.

I focused mine around a Virgin-Vie party. The Virgin-Vie lady is brilliant and I have known her for a while through various parties and she pampered my guest of honour from head to toe with a facial, hand massage and a foot/leg massage & treatment, which she is still talking about as she has been struggling and they felt wonderful afterwards. I gave her the commission from orders to treat herself with things to pamper. We played the games whilst pampering was in progress and finished the party with the bingo game (huge success and fun) and then cake and a toast to mum-to-be. The decorations were brilliant and set the theme and atmosphere brilliantly.

Everyone loved it and are still talking about it 1 week on and I feel for some time to come. I keep being told it is just an American thing and didn’t know it could be done so feel I have started a new trend! Thank you again, so glad I found your website, just a shame it’s all over!

I thought you might want to see the photos from Kiran’s baby shower. Everyone had a great time and loved everything provided by Shower My Baby. Once again, thank you so much xXx

Well we had the shower for my sister in law on Saturday and it went off fantastic!!! I am sending you some pics of the decor and you can see how lovely the place looked. Thank you so much for sending to South Africa you just dont find such pretty decor for a stork party over here!!! Your service was out of this world. I am including a photo of Candy dressed up as a tired mom! and her husband PJ who all the husbands took him out for lunch and then brought him back to us and we dressed him up and played 2 games with him and let him open a couple of presents. He was a very good sport!!! We let all the men bring a bottled food or porridge as entrance fee, it worked well.