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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve never heard of this rule. This sounds crazy to me. Why not celebrate a second child like the first? How rude to the second baby!

I come from a culture where we don’t have baby showers at all so this whole thing is mysterious. I think all showers are tacky but if you have one why not two?[/quote]

Because you already have baby supplies from the first baby.

You don't need a crib, a glider, a breast pump, bottles, blankets. You have that already.

And if you chose to get everything in "gender-specific" colors, then that's on you. Your lack of foresight is not your friends' problem.[/quote]

When I had my second DCUM scared the crap out of me for having a second baby shower. But what I really wanted was just to have a nice lunch and tea with my close girlfriends. I’m not being snarky, but [b]what would you call that? [/b]All I wanted before number 2 was a nice day out but I was worried about what to call it and be labeled at DCUM trash. [/quote]
This is totally fine!! Call/text friends and say I’d like to do a girls lunch. Can you come to whatever place on whatever date. My treat. [/quote]

You call that "lunch."  You invite your friends to lunch, and you pay.  And you don't mention the word "shower," or talk about how it's to celebrate the baby, you just say that you would really like to have a nice lunch with your friends before the baby is born, and you invite them to your favorite restaurant and you arrange in advance to pay.  No one will find that tacky.  It's the asking for gifts (which is what a "shower" means), for a second baby that puts you into "tacky" territory.  [/quote]

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