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baby shower
[ bey-bee shou-er ]
noun
- a party, sometimes attended by women only, for giving gifts to a prospective mother or to a couple about to be parents:
We regularly use the stroller we were given at our baby shower, but the playpen only occasionally.
Word History and Origins
Origin of baby shower1
Example Sentences
“We have never worried one day that this show would get in the way of our friendship, and we talked about it after Denise left,” says Stracke, who recently helped plan a baby shower for Beauvais’ 33-year-old son Oliver.
It came to mind as I read the story of 18-year-old Nevaeh Crain, who was six months pregnant and left her baby shower early to go to the ER because she was feeling so ill.
Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before.
On the morning of their baby shower, Oct.
Tony Haro had just gotten home on a cool October evening in 1988 and found a note from his wife, Lois Anne Haro, saying she had left around 7 p.m. for the Pasadena Plaza to buy a gift for a friend’s baby shower the next day.
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