Just got an invite to a ‘baby sprinkle’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Old school here. Only showers for first babies—-unless a significany large gap between kids—like 10 years.

But didn't you have luncheons with friends to celebrate #2? Even my grandma did that in the 1950s

Yes, but it's a luncheon. It's not a gift grab and no gift is expected. It's a party thrown by a host where the guests just attend and ooh and ahh over the baby. If someone wants to bring a gift, fine. It's not a shower or sprinkle where the main event is opening and showing presents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Old school here. Only showers for first babies—-unless a significany large gap between kids—like 10 years.

But didn't you have luncheons with friends to celebrate #2? Even my grandma did that in the 1950s

Yes, but it's a luncheon. It's not a gift grab and no gift is expected. It's a party thrown by a host where the guests just attend and ooh and ahh over the baby. If someone wants to bring a gift, fine. It's not a shower or sprinkle where the main event is opening and showing presents.

That's what sprinkles are supposed to be though. Lunch with close friends and small, trinket level gifts.

[Anonymous]

I loathe "sprinkles" and "sip n sees" and gender-reveal parties. Just too much. I never attend.

I always bring a gift for a new baby and a gift for the older sibling when I first see the baby. That is enough. Way too much "I am so special" crap from our generation of mothers (and brides, for that matter).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, baby tinkles... Millennial women never get tired of these!

OP, you don't have to go. Just say you're busy. It's not an obligation. Although it's funny you're friends with a person who'd put so much weight on this nonsense.

It's funny hat person is friends with OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Old school here. Only showers for first babies—-unless a significany large gap between kids—like 10 years.

But didn't you have luncheons with friends to celebrate #2? Even my grandma did that in the 1950s

Yes, but it's a luncheon. It's not a gift grab and no gift is expected. It's a party thrown by a host where the guests just attend and ooh and ahh over the baby. If someone wants to bring a gift, fine. It's not a shower or sprinkle where the main event is opening and showing presents.

That's what sprinkles are supposed to be though. Lunch with close friends and small, trinket level gifts.

The luncheon is not before the baby comes but after. That's what's different. Well, that and a gift expectation (even trinket level). We call it a luncheon or a "sip and see".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, baby tinkles... Millennial women never get tired of these!

OP, you don't have to go. Just say you're busy. It's not an obligation. Although it's funny you're friends with a person who'd put so much weight on this nonsense.

These are events thrown FOR the pregnant women. She isn't the one planning it.

I'm pregnant with #2 and my best friends and I are going for a spa day to celebrate. It wasn't my idea, but they all want to see me before the baby is born. I'm paying my own way.

That's lovely! Sounds fun. Don't feel like you have to explain yourself, most of us normal women actually have / LIKE our friends and of course want to celebrate and can't wait to meet their babies. Bunch of awkward frigid friendless B's on this website...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loathe "sprinkles" and "sip n sees" and gender-reveal parties. Just too much. I never attend.

I always bring a gift for a new baby and a gift for the older sibling when I first see the baby. That is enough. Way too much "I am so special" crap from our generation of mothers (and brides, for that matter).

I am 100% with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loathe "sprinkles" and "sip n sees" and gender-reveal parties. Just too much. I never attend.

I always bring a gift for a new baby and a gift for the older sibling when I first see the baby. That is enough. Way too much "I am so special" crap from our generation of mothers (and brides, for that matter).

I am 100% with you.

Of course you are.

[Anonymous]

Man, I need new friends because the Baby Sprinkles I've been invited to all included normal, large item gift registries. I've went to 3 of these last year and none were just a simple celebration.

The simplest sprinkle was no games or food while we mingled. It started at 1 PM, we mingled until 1:30-ish and then the mom-to-be opened gifts, after gifts came the cake and we were out of there by 2:30.

The others I've been to have been called sprinkles but were definitely NOT low key get-togethers to celebrate mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Old school here. Only showers for first babies—-unless a significany large gap between kids—like 10 years.

But didn't you have luncheons with friends to celebrate #2? Even my grandma did that in the 1950s

Yes, but it's a luncheon. It's not a gift grab and no gift is expected. It's a party thrown by a host where the guests just attend and ooh and ahh over the baby. If someone wants to bring a gift, fine. It's not a shower or sprinkle where the main event is opening and showing presents.

Is this something that people enjoy? Either from the point of view of opening presents while everyone is sitting there watching you, or sitting there watching someone open presents. I don't enjoy either, one, but I guess that other people must, or they wouldn't do it?

[Anonymous]

"Baby Sprinkle" is an awful name. I can't get the image of a baby peeing all over someone out of my mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loathe "sprinkles" and "sip n sees" and gender-reveal parties. Just too much. I never attend.

I always bring a gift for a new baby and a gift for the older sibling when I first see the baby. That is enough. Way too much "I am so special" crap from our generation of mothers (and brides, for that matter).

Agree. The "look at me" generation. Please let this be over soon.

[Anonymous]

Well, when you receive invitation, it will probably have specific instructions as to what you are to bring. I threw one of these for my SIL, who was having a second boy, two years after the first. She told me specifically what she wanted me to include on the invitation and when I went to my favorite stationary store to order them, the person taking my order was aghast and I think she would have preferred not to take my order. While we were talking, a younger employee joined the conversation and said she'd been to them and it wasn't that unusual, etc. OP, if this person is a gift-grabber, just have other plans that day (although sounds like you've been given plenty of warning ) and you can always send a gift or a card (or nothing) later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loathe "sprinkles" and "sip n sees" and gender-reveal parties. Just too much. I never attend.

I always bring a gift for a new baby and a gift for the older sibling when I first see the baby. That is enough. Way too much "I am so special" crap from our generation of mothers (and brides, for that matter).

Women have sip n sees when the baby is born so that they don't have guests constantly. They only need to clean their house once and look presentable and they can have all the guests at once. They aren't gift giving parties...

[Anonymous]

Just another excise for a gift whore to rake up a lot of loot. Decline.