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Tinnumir, baby showers aren't too bad. Well at least mine weren't. I had two. The one my family threw we really didn't do any games but we had people fill out their addresses on thank you cards and had a little drawing for prizes. The one my in-laws held we played a bingo type game. People got a blank bingo card and they filled in what baby items they thought I would recieve. As I opened gifts they had stickers to mark off whatever ones they had correct. Those who got a "bingo" won a little prize. It ended up being a really fun game and we are playing it at my SIL baby shower in a couple weeks.

I also saw in your intro you are in Ohio...so am I! Though originally from Cleveland I now live in Tiffin which is about 2 hours north of you. I do go down to the Columbus area quite a bit because both my SILs live in Delaware. biggrin

The baby shower games I've seen include:

Guessing how much toilet paper will fit around the pregnant tummy (I won one soon after I'd been pregnant because I remembered I'd been 10 squares of toilet paper, and she was too!)

Everybody getting a napkin folded up like a diaper and pinned with a safety pin and the person who opens theirs to find a raisin inside wins a prize

One kind of like Pirate Dirge's with the bracelets only they used clothes pins and whoever collected the most clothes pins by the end for catching other people saying 'baby' would win a prize

And then two that have nothing to do with babies:

Filling a big bowl with uncooked rice and safety pins and then having each person blindfolded try to pull out as many safety pins from the rice as they can in 1 minute (it's harder than it sounds, but fun!)

And one I don't like because it can be humiliating, where you pile a bunch of cotton balls on a baby blanket on the floor, then a person kneeling in front of it blindfolded uses big serving spoon to try to scoop as many cotton balls as they can into a bowl held over their head within a certain time limit, and this one is hard because the cotton balls weigh nothing and most of the time you're scooping nothing and everybody is laughing!

That bingo card one sounds fun!! Maybe I should mention that for mine coming up..

I wish I could have some sort of shower that was either couples or orientated around my husband. I love baby stuff and everything but he's the one who gets all super excited about them. Not in front of other people, mind you, but when it's just me and him if I just pull out a new onesie he's all like "AAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!" and just loves all the cute baby stuff we get for presents.

Then again he's been told since he was like 15 that he couldn't have kids. And he did a lot of (very stupid) fooling around protection-free for years, and nothing ever came of it. Heck, when we were going steady, we had protection-free sex for two years before we got married. Then two months after we got married I got pregnant. it was Pretty Damn Shocking. We're both thrilled though.
But I mean he thought he wouldn't be able to have kids years longer than I did. So it's such a miracle for him. Well, for both of us, but you know what I mean.

I'm having my first, but I've never even been to a baby shower...

I don't have many girlfriends, either.

Rai Rai, like Ritza said, it probably won't be any better until he drops but then he is back on your bladder and it's back to peeing every 2 minutes! gonk At least that is what happened to me with Ethan!

I sure hope so! Doc recommended massage so hubby has to help me out with that.

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I'm waiting for a call from a nurse about my leg cramp I've had for 3 days. I researched and calve cramps are common. Mine happened in my sleep and I've tried swimming to ease it, but it got worse today.

And I have another ultrasound scan in 2 weeks. 'Poor fetal growth'. Bleh. There goes all my money! I wish the US had some kind of NHS scheme.

Ooooh, I got awful charley horses too, what helped me was hot baths, but now that it's 98 out, I guess that might be a bit too uncomfortable for you sad