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up and coming photographers would charge less and do a great job so i made my ultimate choice based on the photographers website and the kind of photos they took and which best aligned with the kind of photo shoot i was looking for i got in touch with the photographer i wanted to go ahead with and she was nice enough to offer to meet with me over coffee to discuss the kind of photo shoot i wanted to and pass on her advice on the shoots she had done michelle purchase from faure photography was fantastic and made my photo shoot so much fun and a great day for me and my partner 4 props another aspect that i saw at many maternity photo shoots was the use of props and i think its a great idea and gives the photos that cuteness and linkage to baby that is due to arrive below are some of the props i used in my photo shoot all in all we had a lot of fun doing our photo shoot and i m so glad we did it they are memories that will be captured forever at such an important moment in our lives baby first time mum maternity photo shoot pregnancy pregnant 4 comments 6 jul 2014 baby shower time posted in baby shower by ftmguide in my whole entire life i had never been to a baby shower i know but as mentioned before i don t have any of my close friends who have had children so the opportunity to be invited was never there but i did hear about baby showers and the usual baby games that were played and to be honest the whole thing sounded really boring and some of the games that i heard that were played i completely cringed melting chocolate in diapers and smelling them and trying to guess what chocolate it is and meanwhile mimicking a baby s dirty diaper gross so therefore i didn t want to do a baby shower after hearing all those stories until my friends urged me to have one and if anything really just an excuse to get all my friends together and so instead of thinking of putting a typical baby shower together i thought of putting together i really nice event at home with all my friends before baby arrives and so the planning began i had a friend of mine offer to put it together but because i didn t want a typical baby shower i decided i would organise it myself and then enlist my friends help as i went along when should i hold my baby shower after much research and asking other mums who have had baby showers they all suggested i have it 2 months before baby is due firstly because i still have enough energy to entertain people and endure a whole day of doing things and secondly it s not too early in the pregnancy to hold the baby shower i decided to do it on a saturday afternoon kicking off at 2 30pm 2 what kind of baby shower did i want to have being that i was organising this event myself i wanted it to be very low key and easy to put together i knew that my energy levels at 8 months pregnant wasn t going to be as high i wanted to organise finger food for people to nibble on since i set the time at 2 30pm i also didn t want the typical baby shower games so i crossed that off my list i also wanted to organise lots and lots of drinks for my baby shower since again most of my other friends don t have kids and like me before i was pregnant i enjoyed a nice glass of wine on the weekends 3 invitation i wanted to send out invites to my friends and as old school as that may sound since these days most invitations are electronic it was just something i really wanted to do for my baby shower and this is when i stumbled across a fantastic website who do personalised invitations how cute are these they also come along with a magnet on the back of the invite so your invitees can stick it up on their fridge i loved it have a look at their website for some other baby shower invite designs http www blessthisday com au 4 baby shower memorabilia so as mentioned i didn t want to host any baby shower games at my event but what i did want to do is have some sort of memorabilia from that day and again bless this day had the perfect idea of what i was looking for the first thing i completely loved was the wishing tree for baby you get the poster personalised with your baby s name and the date of your baby shower or if like me you don t know the sex of your baby i just called baby by their surname the tree comes with 20 leaves which already come with a 2 sided sticker to stick back on the tree your guests can write on each leaf and make a wish for your baby to be i completely loved the idea and it went down so well at the baby shower everyone wrote down their own wish for baby and stuck it back on the tree i then also decided to get the poster framed and stuck it up in our baby s nursery which made the nursery look great and its such a great memorabilia for baby another game that i thought was a great idea and a nice memento of the day also came from bless this day and it was the predication card game each onesie comes with various questions around the baby so guests can try to guess the weight height sex time of birth and various other questions with guests signing their name at the bottom it also comes with a clothesline and wooden pegs so you can hang the onesies and clothesline at your baby shower and it becomes another decoration piece again it was such a great memento that i have kept for baby to read one day and also doubled as decorations for the day of the baby shower 5 theme decorations because we did not know the sex of our baby i couldn t really do an all boys or all girls theme so i just kept it simple and made everything baby pink and baby blue i used paper lanterns in pink and blue to decorate the room and my partner was great in hanging them from the roof of our place i also purchased the letters baby from typo as per my first picture at the top and used baby pink and baby blue ribbon to decorate them i just purchased the ribbons at the dollar shop i then made my own banner using scrapbook paper purchased at the reject shop and used word to spell out my name in pink and blue and then just glued them on the scrapbook paper 6 food as mentioned i wanted to keep it simple and i was 8 months pregnant so i didn t have the energy to cook big meals so i decided on easy food and enlisted the help of friends and my mum my mum cooked a hot dish that was easy to serve on the day another of my friends offered to make a fruit platter i had other friends who brought a dessert apart from the cake and then cheese and crackers other nibbles like chips and lollies and the hit of the day was the yum cha i bought at costco i can t remember how many pieces came in the packet but it was a lot and we steamed them on the day and served them and everyone loved them i only wished i had bought another packet but we had frozen prawn yum cha from a separate bag we bought which we ended up using on the day i m so glad we did that at the end i had a couple of friends stay onto the night time and so at that point i just ordered some pizzas from domino s home delivered which was perfect 7 the cake so when you have a browse online on baby shower cakes you see these amazing beautifully decorated cakes with all different themes and i completely loved the concept of having a themed baby shower cake then i started looking into prices on ordering such a cake and the cheapest caked i could find was starting at around 200 i just couldn t fathom spending that much money on a cake which i knew wasn t going to be completely consumed and at some point thrown out i was quite upset because i really thought the themed cake would have been great so i decided on getting cupcakes instead and lucky for me around the corner from where i live there is a fantastic cupcake store called the cupcake factory i looked online and decided to order their mini cupcakes as per below in blue and pink then i continued browsing the other items they sell and stumbled across their maxi cupcake baby shower theme and not only did i love the way it looked but loved the price this gorgeous cake for only 55 what a bargain i immediately ordered both the cake and mini cupcakes and was so happy with the way it turned out on the day i had tons of comments on how cute the cake was and not only was it cute but the taste i don t know what they put in their icing but we couldn t get enough of it 8 thank you gifts as is customary at baby showers i knew all my guests would bring along gifts or purchase something off my gift registry so i wanted to put together a small thank you gift for each of them i purchased plastic little milk bottles from the reject shop and proceeded to fill them up with lollies and chocolates i then also purchased tea lights in baby pink and baby blue and put them in a lolly bag along with the milk bottles and attached a sweet poem to the tea lights for my guests to light up when baby is born everyone appreciated the little gifts and they were quick and easy to put together 9 gift registry so i really struggled with deciding on whether or not i should put a gift registry together and my biggest dilemma was that the sex of our baby was not known and i didn t want to be given yellow and green clothes for the baby as clothes is what people usually buy babies i spoke to a couple of my friends about this and they all suggested i put together a gift registry because they would rather buy me things that i would use and need i went ahead and put one together and thank goodness i did because we ended up getting so many things that we actually needed for the baby as opposed to ending up with so much clothes which babies grow out of very quickly after researching the various baby store gift registry set up i came across baby village based in bondi junction and their gift registry by far was the easiest and most practical for both the guests and the person registering the gifts first off you can do your baby registry online and continuously add or subtract items as you go along this is so handy all their products from the store are online which means you don t have to go to the store at all to set it up your guests can search your registry by your name no passwords needed next great feature is as people purchase gifts off your registry you get an email telling you what has been purchased again i found this a fantastic tool to know what is getting bought and lastly and i think this is the best feature for your guests is that you have the option of picking up all the gifts saving your guests from going to the store or paying postage to have the gifts sent out my guests were more than happy to purchase gifts online and not have to be hit with postage fees and me and my partner were more than happy to go to the store and pick up all our gifts baby village then give you a list of all the items purchased and by whom and guests were able to leave a message as well there is also no issues in exchanging or getting a credit on items you have changed your mind about which we did once we received all the gifts there was a couple of gifts which we thought we really didn t need and baby village was more than happy to give us a credit note to use towards other things which we would need for the baby i can t highly recommend this store more the staff is so lovely and take the time out to explain products and make suggestions and were thoroughly helpful throughout my whole gift registry and there you have it that was my baby shower and we had such a great time and i am so glad i put it together it was a great opportunity to spend time with my friends before baby arrived and i have to say the gifts received was a huge help in getting the things we needed for baby what was your baby shower like or what has been your experience in attending other baby showers baby gift registry baby shower baby shower decorations baby shower invitations cupcake first time mum ftm 2 comments 25 jun 2014 is it worth attending antenatal classes posted in uncategorized by ftmguide so this is the question i asked myself reason being the time it would consume mine and my partner s time to attend and was it really worth it the cost involved to attend those classes and again was it worth it i was astonished to find that most antenatal classes were charging 300 for attendance i mean how can people with not a lot of money afford to pay this and justify spending 300 to learn how to give birth and i really didn t want to watch a birthing video i ve gone 31 years without watching one and the thought of watching one horrified me and i know that they would show this at the antenatal classes but given that fact that me and my partner had zero clue about labour neither of us have had friends who have been through labour so we literally had no clue about the process and the stages of labour so i decided that it was best that we both attend antenatal classes i decided to see if we could find a free class somewhere as i couldn t justify spending 300 on top of all the money we have spent on things for the baby so far i managed to find free antenatal classes at the rpa but the only catch was it was on during the day and during the week me and my partner were both working but thought we could try to fit it in during our work day we signed up for a 6 x 2hr per week class and a separate 2 hour breastfeeding class we began my antenatal classes when i was 28 weeks within the first 10 minutes of our first class they put a birthing video on and i just sat there trying not to cry i wanted to cry not because it was beautiful or amazing i wanted to cry because of the pain that i could see the woman go through and knowing that its something that i would need to go through just scared the hell out of me and as i looked around the class i also saw the same horrified faces of the other pregnant women my partner looked at me and held my hand he could see i was shocked and scared as hell i walked away from the first class thinking that was so unnecessary to do to put a birthing video within the first 10 minutes of your first antenatal class anyway we had signed up and proceeded to push ahead i found each class to be quite repetitive they would go over the same things at some classes and i found it to be a time waster at times they also spent time on doing group activities which i think was also a time waster one group activity was listing the things a support partner should do and say i just think those things are quite obvious they are there to support but we wasted 30 mins going over that another class that i think was a time waster was post baby care they go over how to swaddle a baby with a doll how to bath a baby and certain ailments of a baby that are normal or not normal i e colour of their poop certain skin rashes etc the reason why i found this a complete time waster is because you don t remember any of that stuff when the baby arrives and when you are at the hospital the midwives teaches you how to swaddle a baby there are also various classes at the hospitals for mothers to attend they teach you how to bath a baby breastfeeding classes how to settle a baby 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