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[quote=Anonymous]What is this craziness here? In my Asian culture, traditionally we did not have gifts for baby in a  "baby shower".  We have a religious ceremony which was to basically pamper the mom to be and pray for her safe delivery and her joyous news  and throw a feast for the family and friends. We give cash gifts, gold, silver, diamond jewelry or silk sarees -  but only to the mom. Usually nothing is bought for the baby because that was considered jinxing the baby before the birth.  The ceremony is hosted by family members  from both sides of the family.   Also, the husband is a big part of the celebration (so I have never been to a baby shower for a single mom) and no one gives basic stuff like onesies etc. We assume that the family can buy these things themselves.

Now a days, Asian-Americans also call non-Asians friends  to their baby shower and it has become a hybrid celebration. The non-Asians  come bringing gifts from a registry because that's what is common practice here.  Other than these two things - the rest of the celebration of having lots of food, fun games, music and dance, sweets, gifts for guests etc is the same.

Anyhow, baby shower is an important rite of passage for us and typically there is a huge spread of food and lots of people invited by the family. [/quote]

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