Ideas for original, practical showers that parents will really enjoy!

10 March, 2022

The arrival of a new baby often makes the whole family go gaga. To celebrate his arrival and his future parents, a shower is often organized. During this party, the guests want to offer gifts to the new parents to help them prepare for the arrival of the baby. The parents are then inundated with gifts of all kinds, but are they really useful to them and do they really want them?

When it comes to buying a gift for a newborn, we get excited about all the cute items and clothes and our purchases often reflect our tastes, but it's not necessarily what the parents would have wanted to receive. Sure, they'll be very grateful for all the love, attention and gifts received, but will they really use them?
Before you rush to the stores or online to buy a gift, take the time to think about your purchase. There are two criteria to take into account.

First, usefulness. Then, taste. First, ask yourself: do they really need it? No? Look for something else. Yes? Great! Now, is it to their taste? Even if you think an item is really cute and wish you had it for your baby, if it's not to the new parents' taste, they may not use it.

Let the new parents have the pleasure of carefully choosing each item they will use with baby. After all, they are the ones who will use and see them every day! Stores often offer baby registries; if the parents have one, buy something they have selected, you will be sure not to go wrong.
Here are also some shower ideas to celebrate baby differently. A personalized way to spoil the new parents and the baby in an original and practical way!
Check out the handy guide for our gift suggestions and tools related to these ideas.


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Our family trousseau
There was a time when each stage of life had its order: first marriage, then the house and finally, the children. Lovers, when celebrating their marriage, received a trousseau that contained everything necessary to live in a house. Nowadays, there is no longer any order and marriage is no longer a mandatory step to move in together and start a family. Since wedding trousseaux are no more, why not replace them with birth trousseaux? The idea here is to equip parents with everything they might need for themselves in order to take good care of their children.
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Give the gift of reading
Why not have a party for book lovers? Each guest gives a book as a gift to the unborn child in which he or she writes a personalized note, a bit like a dedication for the child. The parents can then read all these books to their child and already sow in him or her the love of reading. This simple gift allows parents and the child to share a quality time which also allows the development of a host of skills. And why not come and read the book to the child once born?
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Batch cooking
Meal planning and preparation takes a lot of time and organization. To make things easier for new parents in the first few weeks of their baby's life, you can offer them ready-made meals. At this party, you can cook meals together, or each guest can bring a ready-made meal that the parents can freeze and reheat on a long evening when they don't feel like cooking.


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Help Coupons
We often forget that the most precious gift we can give is our time. The first months of a baby's life are not easy. Nights are short and the whole family is adjusting. We suggest that you ask guests to offer their time to the new parents or a little attention to help them. Asking for help is not always easy, it is important to follow up with the parents once the baby has arrived to let them know what you can do to help and when you are available.


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Second hand/giving back
The arrival of a new baby requires several items that will not be used for a long period of time. It is possible to get all the baby essentials in second-hand stores or on platforms like Market Place. It also happens that the items used for a first baby are stored for future use. Since they are not used at the moment, it is possible to lend them to the future parents celebrated until they need them again.

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We invest in baby's future
Are future parents financially inclined? Maybe they don't want to receive objects or clothes as gifts because they prefer to do their own shopping? Maybe they already have everything? Having a child involves a lot of expenses and not just in the first year. It is possible to help future parents in the long term by offering them investment products or money that they can invest in the products of their choice. This money could be used to pay for the child's studies, a special project, their first car or even to finance their move into an apartment or help with the purchase of their first house. Who knows?


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We take care of flat purchases
One of the pleasures of preparing for the arrival of a new baby is carefully choosing the little clothes he will wear during his first months, selecting the furniture for his room and the decorative elements so that it is beautiful and warm. Some purchases, although essential, are much less interesting and fun. The guests could take care of making these boring purchases which are also the most expensive in the long term. In this way, the new parents will have plenty of time to choose objects of their tastes that correspond to their needs.

Check out the handy guide for our gift suggestions and tools related to these ideas!
This blog post is part of our special "New Baby" feature. To see all the content in this feature, which offers tips and advice to make the arrival of a new baby easier, check out this article !