Here are some photos and Instagrams from Kim Kardashian’s big baby shower on Sunday. All of the ladies from the Kardashian-Jenner clan came out for the shower… except Caitlyn, I think. Kris was there, as were Kylie, Kendall, Kourtney and even Khloe stepped away from Lamar Odom’s side to spend a few hours with Kim. Other guests included Gigi Hadid, Malika Haqq, Serena Williams, Cara Delevingne, Maria Menounos and Brittny Gastineau. At some point, Kanye West was there and I think North got to party with all of the ladies. I’m a little bit surprised that there were so many friends-of-Kendall there?
Kim’s baby shower was “Camp Beverly Hills”-themed, which sounds like sort of a cute theme, especially since all of the many ladies got to wear pajamas and sleep in teepees? They had a huge breakfast (including waffles, etc).
And yes, all of the guests did bring gifts. Some of you have strong feelings about women having baby showers for the second or third children, especially if the women are already pretty wealthy. Like, does anyone really believe that Kim doesn’t already have everything she needs for the baby? So why not do a baby shower/party and ask people to donate to charity? Or just say “no gifts necessary, we just wanted to have a fun pajama party”? Does Kim get a pass because it was so difficult for her to conceive, so she’s allowed to celebrate this as much as she wants? What are the unspoken rules for baby showers for Baby #2?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Instagram.
Looks totally cute and fun! Wish I could have been there!
Right? This is the only time I’ve ever wanted to hang out with Kim K.
Also, Kaiser, it’s a TROOP Beverley Hills themed shower, as in, the AMAZING Shelley Long kids movie from the 80s about the spoiled, Beverley Hills girl scout troop. I think it’s perfect.
Beverly Hills, what a thrill.
So cute!
Well, correct me if i’m wrong, but didn’t kim ask for all gifts to north to be donated to charity?
I think it’s fine, even if she’s wealthy, to want to get some gifts from her friends and family… most of the times, gifts are more about the gesture, and the cuteness and originality of it than its value…
So it’s fine by me, and it looks like comfy fun, much better than her 1st baby shower IMO…
+1
The event looks really cute from these pics. Makes me want to throw on some PJs and relax. Blast you 9-5!
Maybe, but usually on the 2nd kid it’s bad manners to have a baby shower. Normally baby showers are given for the 1st born. then again, we are not dealing with normal when it comes to this family
Well, let’s consider the fact that she’s having a boy this time around. Maybe she wants gifts for a baby boy.
In my country it’s normal to have more than one baby shower, I don’t think it was ever a problem…
Oh well.
Ultimately, she can celebrate any ways she wants-it is her right.
Having said that, it is still incredibly crass to have people bring gifts when you have more money than you could spend in 10 lifetimes. She could still have thrown a big, over the top party and then collected money/gifts for underprivileged mothers or prenatal healthcare for mothers in other countries.
Exactly!
Right! But this is the girl who donates $ from her her eBay sales…umhmm…10% of 400 grand? 40 000 not bad, but she kept 300plus for clothes n acc that were mostly given to her.
BTW, this is the best she has looked, too bad her style makes her look horrible n PJs is whee she seemed the most comfy n prettiest.
Exactly. She could have told guests please donate 5% of the cost of my gift to charity just like I do.
You know where that money actually gets donated to, right? The church that PMK set up. So it’s more like “donated”
I was about to say the same, Bridget. And, oh, what would we do without the ” “? I love those things!
That was my issue with my bridal shower. It felt so…weird. My husband and I already lived together, so we had the vast majority of home goods we could possibly need. We had to really struggle to find things to actually register for. I did use it as a chance to get some specialty appliances we wouldn’t have bought otherwise – like a Rice Cooker, Slow Cooker, etc. – that I still use. But that was really it. There was so little. I think we registered for about 10 items, and that was truly all. It was like pulling teeth. Not something I want to do again.
I totally agree that they had a golden opportunity to do something really positive. A lot of celebs use weddings and showers to raise money or donations (Nicole Richie did it, even Bridget Moynihan did it with her recent weeding – her husband is the founder of a non-profit and they requested donations to it as gifts). That’s classy. But then again, it’s hard to expect much else from the K Family.
Sam, get where you are coming from. My daughter’s best friend is getting married and they are rehabing a house. So they are asking for gifts certificates from like Home Depot, Ikea, etc. Also had a friend’s son get married. Both of the couple owned their own place. I crocheted afghans for them. I try to do something that they cannot buy anywhere.
The best gifts we got were handmade or personal. One of my friends is a missionary who happened to be in Northern Africa at the time actually got a little Tajine pot for us, and we actually use it a lot to cook, it’s excellent. And my brother in-law, is an accountant who does art on the side, and he actually created a decalcomania print for us on a large canvas that we put in the living room. It’s an unique piece that nobody else has, and we love that. So I totally agree that a lot of money isn’t necessary to actually give a good gift.
I never knew the rule of “multiple” baby showers until a few years ago. I didn’t even have a bridal shower because I feel like I’m begging for gifts. It just spikes my anxiety even if it shouldn’t. Like if you want to bring a gift, cool, but the act of “showering” me with gifts while I sit around and open each one and you stare at me to see my reaction….ugh, I got the heebees now.
Oh, and the pjs are nice.
Ditto! I didn’t have a wedding or house warming shower or registry. We’re in the process of adoption and some well-meaning co-workers want to help fund raise but I get the icks. As nice and needed as it is, I’d rather not ask anyone for anything and however or if friends and family want to do something, it’s at their discretion.
Why does Kylie always pose with her hands in her hair? It always looks like she’s scratching lice or something.
Self-conscious action for some when they wear hair pieces.
Kylie poses with her finger on her lips as well. It always looks like she’s smelling her finger.
My question is why is Kourtney giving serious side eye to Kylie? If looks could kill, Kylie’s head would be splattered over the party goers.
And again with the massive sunglasses. Indoors. While wearing pyjamas. Does Kenny wear spectacles now? I’ve seen her in these a few times now.
I would get having a baby shower if she could not afford it, especially since hand me downs can’t be used. But, no, I don’t think she should have had a baby shower. And did she throw it herself? Because typically a family member or friend throws the baby shower. I don’t mind having a party to celebrate but I’m sure this was all being filmed for KUWTK. It was good to see Khloe attended.
Yes, the event sounds as though it was low-key and comfortable enough so Khloe wouldn’t feel too odd about it at the moment. Not like an event where people are dressed up etc.
I don’t mind people having showers and/or getting gifts for second/etc children. I always buy something for new babies in my life, and even though most of my friends make more money than my family I still want to make a gesture to celebrate their new addition. And I love buying baby stuff.
I think my husband and I are some of the only people left in this world who don’t put “no gifts” on kids’ bday invites. (Not really, but it feels that way sometimes.) We don’t buy many toys “just because” at our house and I think it’s fine for kids to get some presents on their birthdays. We donate a lot of time and money to charity in our house and while I’m happy to do it for a child’s birthday if there is a specific cause the family supports or if it’s child-initiated, I don’t think it’s inherently selfish or materialistic to want my child’s birthday to be a little about him/her.
ETA of course celebrities have infinitely more resources than my family and friends so yeah, it would be nice to see Kim use her platform to raise awareness for needier families. I guess I just don’t expect much from the Klan.
I’m one of those that has strong feelings about multiple baby showers. Have a party, celebrate, yes, but to register and expect gifts after your first child annoys me.
Friends of mine had a housewarming party when they bought their first house. I attended and bought a gift. 4 years later we all moved to another state (both men were transferred for work). They bought their 2nd house (as did we) and had another housewarming party and even registered for gifts!! At this point they had been married for 5 years and had everything you could need. I went to the party but didn’t bring a gift. I brought a dessert or something like that. Showers are to help people with their first baby or home or wedding…after that, celebrate with w party…but no gifts!
Kim should donate all the gifts she received because as Kaiser said, this kid already has everything he could possibly need.
I agree with you. Nobody did it where i grew up, they’d have a small brunch but no gifts. Any gifts were brought only by choice and were something small like an outfit
A friend has a 2 year old and just had a shower for baby number two. She freaked out because the people who came only brought small gifts. Like she’s due any day and has almost nothing because she assumed people would buy it all for her as shower gifts
Even if kids are different genders, i think asking for new swings and strollers is absurd. Either get gender neutral if you plan to have multiple kids or reuse the boy/girl stuff. The baby doesn’t care if it’s the wrong color. Or buy it yourself, that’s fine
People can be pretty entitled, especially when it comes to baby showers.
I had a baby shower for my second. The reason for that was because we were having a boy and our first was a girl. The big items like, crib, car seat ect, we already had. It was more for clothes . Everything clothes wise was very gender specific and although we’re very progressive,I’m sure my son doesn’t want to look back at his baby pictures and see himself wearing his sister’s clothes. We also didn’t have anything similar to the Kimye money . Now when we had our third and last baby, we did have a baby shower, because he was a total surprise. We gave everything away and we were happy with two kids. We found out I was pregnant a month before my husband was scheduled to have his vasectomy. No joke. So we were starting from scratch again.
I don’t agree with this at all. Starting from scratch doesn’t mean everyone else has to fund your your baby.
We weren’t asking our family and friends to fund our baby. We were adults with very good jobs and stable. We came from families who wanted to help. They saw I was frankly, freaked out over the pregnancy, because it was unplanned and wanted to help. We could have easily and gladly done it on our own. I don’t have an entitled attitude. In fact, it was a surprise that our loved ones even did it.
The “unspoken rules” for baby showers, as I have always understood them, were thus:
A lot of women don’t even have showers for Baby 2 – especially if the pregnancies are fairly close in time. Most people presume that you will use the stuff you used from the first baby – like crib, high chair, etc. There isn’t really that much to buy for the second if you still have all your stuff from the first.
I did get a small lunch at work for Baby 2 and a few gifts, but that was because I had a girl first and then a boy. So people wanted to get some little blue outfits and things. But it was a surprise – I didn’t plan any shower or party. And yes, that stuff was appreciated. But since my daughter was a surprise, we had a lot of neutral clothes that we were planning on using for him anyway.
I don’t begrudge Kim having whatever she wants. Does it feel weird to me? Yes, it does. I remember Nicole Richie using her baby shower to request donations for a shelter in LA that housed pregnant women and babies. But then again, this is the same Kim who accepted a ton of expensive gifts when she married Kris Humphries and then declined to return them, even though the marriage was short enough to fall within many return periods. I didn’t have very high expectations for her.
Sorry if this sounds dumb (I don’t have kids) but who cares what color babies wear??? They don’t notice right? I don’t get the whole “blue is for boys” stuff.
Oh, people care very much. We expressly declined to find out what we were having the first time around because then people couldn’t buy pink or blue – and you’d be shocked by how ANGRY that made some people! My best guess is that there is a an extremely strong desire to gender babies from birth on, and color is an easy way to do that. But yes, people get IRATE about not being able to choose colors for babies. (We weren’t going to find out for this one, but our daughter basically demanded it, so we found out for her and then she spilled the beans to everybody). So we did wind up with a lot of blue stuff this time around, but it wasn’t by choice.
Thanks Sam for explaining. Wow, that is crazy. Fascinating too, why would adults care about babies’ gender???
Maybe the adults are just trying to make it easy on themselves. See a stranger with a baby on the street or in the store and you look at the baby. Young babies don’t have much to identify them as male or female by just looking at them. If the baby is dressed in pink or blue, it takes away the guessing game. Even asking the baby’s name isn’t always a clue anymore.
@Sam, glad when I had babies you couldn’t find out the sex yet. But that being sad, sometimes it’s good to know the sex. My daughter had a baby at 16 and a friend of ours threw a shower. By knowing the she was having a boy, avoided getting anything girlish such as dresses.
In my circle, a small group of friends get together for a “sprinkle” for any children other than the first. You get small things and usually just go to dinner together to celebrate before the new baby comes.
Cute! I like it
Why shouldn’t a new baby have new things, bought just for them? with love, from the people who will be family/close friends?
a baby shower is to celebrate the new baby, which is worth celebrating, imo.
@original kay…I agree….and if you don’t want to go to a second baby shower….don’t go! I think it’s great to get together with friends and celebrate…anything!!! ANd, ususally a second baby shower isn’t for the big gifts…high chair, crib, etc. More like cute clothers or toys, or something small….
I agree! If you don’t like the idea of a second baby shower then don’t go. Why so uptight? Can’t buy a $9 outfit from Target? I don’t think this should make anyone irate as no one is forcing you to go to the shower or spend any money at all..
You can celebrate without gifts. lots of people do.
Babies can have new things. Bought for them by their own parents.
Ummm FTW. I’ll happily go to lunch with you or catch up some other way to celebrate a new baby but can we cool it with the gift expectations? I’m not a freakin’ ATM. And no I don’t have to attend the shower but what if I wanted to but would be shunned because I didn’t pony up?
I’m not in favour of baby OR bridal showers. It’s your choice to have a baby or get married; so you can fund it. How rude to invite people to an event, expecting that they turn up with gifts – I wouldn’t do it, nor do I attend such events.
We were invited to one wedding for which the gift registry had absolutely nothing priced under $1k. We didn’t know anyone else to team up with in terms of doing a group contribution, so we bought some very tasteful linen … only for it to be returned afterwards with a ‘thanks but no thanks as it wasn’t on our registry’ card! Unbelievable!!!!
Oh my GOSH!!! I cannot believe the audacity!!! That makes my head spin…:(
There is NEVER any reason to be less than gracious about ANY gift you are given. Someone spent time and money on you…SHUT it and pretend to love it, at very minimum. (And, a nice set of linens is a great gift!)
I hosted a bridal shower this summer with some other women for our daughters’ athletic coach, whom the girls have known for many years. We had a VERY nice shower, rented a room at a country club and accommodated the bride’s list of 60 guests. We never received a “thank you” either in person OR by mail/email/text for the gifts or party from her. I will never be able to look at this woman the same again, due to her terrible lack of manners.
Manners and gratitude are IMPORTANT. Nobody owes you a gift, ever…period.
@suzanne That is horrible! I would have said something to her , even if it was referenced in such a way like- “hey was your shower ok? We didn’t hear anything from you, so just wanted to check that you had a good time?”. (Although I can guarantee I wouldn’t have been that pleasant) I just can’t stand rude people! It only takes a minute of time to say thank you to someone, so there is no excuse. I find that the people who never say thank you are usually always over entitled a$$holes who think the world revolves around them. Pathetic.
I cannot imagine who is so poorly raised that they can’t be bothered to thank the people who throw her a 60 person shower! Oh my word. I had a fairly small but very expensive wedding (75 people) and no one offered to throw me a shower. I was new at my work, I have no sister or cousins, and have moved a lot in my life so at that time didn’t have close female friends. I was a bit disappointed, not by a lack of gifts but I would have liked the party and memories. I would have been thrilled to get any sort of shower!
And we got a mish mash of wedding gifts but we sent a nice personal thank you note to everyone including the husband’s cousins who attended a three day party (custom) with zero gifts because they had come from out of town and paid their plane ticket. Their attendance meant a lot to my husband and if all they could do is be there, you thank the people for their presence.
I only had a small baby shower for my one and only – from coworkers. There were two of us pregnant at the same time, so they took us out for a casual lunch and we received a few small things – I remember stacking toys and some little blankets. It was great. The family brought presents at birth and at the christening and I never thought that someone else should pay for the crib or car seat or other big ticket item. You want a child, you should be able to get those things (talking about married couples here…)
Welp, this same young woman called us the morning of the shower to see “if there was going to be alcohol provided?” I mean, this was a Sunday afternoon shower with lots of people under 21 there. Geesh, we ended up pooling more money so we could add wine onto the catering tab…but I was totally DONE with her at that point. The lack of thanks after the fact really iced the cake. I was so disgusted, in fact, that I pulled my daughter from her instruction, as I really don’t want her to think it’s acceptable to act that way. I raised my daughter to know that manners are NEVER optional, and perhaps the most important thing we can offer others on a daily basis. YUCK.
Vauvert…I wish I could turn back time and give YOU that shower!! 🙂
$1K??!! Do you still talk to these people?
Yes to everything you said.
A friend of mine got married and she and her husband asked for money as gift on the invitation – because they already had everything. I thought that was cheap and came up with something else. Then she had a baby shower for her second child (baby showers aren’t common where we are from). I just rolled my eyes at the whole thing and didn’t go.
Baby showers, bridal showers, engagement parties, weddings, housewarming parties… don’t you dare showing up without a gift! I hate it so much.
We attended a wedding over the summer and the couple already lived together with a child. They asked for money towards their honeymoon, which i found to be tacky.
They also did not warn guests that it would be a cash bar. We were fine with it but had to go to an atm because they’re very well off. Everybody assumed it would be open, including the uncle of the groom (my father in law). Should have included that on the invite
You can make more of an argument for baby showers, but bridal showers make sense if you consider the cultural history behind it. Until fairly recently, it wasn’t traditional for couples to live together or even separately on their own (particularly if they were female), so a lot of that was about family and friends pitching in on things couples wouldn’t have or couldn’t afford at the time. Beyond that, most people who attend the shower are likely attending the wedding as well, which means they are going to enjoy dinner and celebration on the couple’s dime. (When my sister totaled what they spent per guest, it averaged out about $75-100 a plate. And their wedding had a pretty controlled budget and limited guest list compared to most!)
This being said, a $1000/item gift registry is just obnoxious.
@ veronica most couples at least live together now, or have a few years together under their belt to set up a home, just because things used to be a certain way doesn’t mean they’re necessary now.
And I don’t think ‘covering the plate’ is at all a decent justification for grabbing at more gifts. People generally give gifts at the shower and the wedding so they’re being doubly gouged as it is, not to mention costs to attend for a lot of guests. Whatever the bride and groom choose to spend on their wedding is on them, it’s not up to others to cover it. If you can’t afford it scale back, don’t rely on guests. It really cheapens what is meant to be a special connection with the people you’ve chosen to share your big day.
Here’s my story – one of my grade school friends got married and invited us. We couldn’t go due to advanced pregnancy at the time, but we purchased a gift off the registry and sent it to her. And I got a phone call about, oh, 2 weeks later from her. She explained that she had grouped the guests by profession and what she surmised we made and since she knew I was a lawyer, she was expecting something “higher end” from me. Never mind that I’m not in an area of law that make a ton of money. Never mind that I was about to pop any day and all our free cash was going to the baby or that we just got a new roof on the house, etc. She was actually grouping the guests by profession and expecting gifts that aligned with incomes. Yes, she actually did this. And No, we don’t speak any more.
@sam Besides never speaking to her again, please tell me you put her in her place? I would have lost my mind! I’m so sorry she was like that to you, what disgusting behavior ! Social economic status has nothing to do with the gifts you give or “have” to give , good grief. What is wrong with people??! I’m blown away.
My jaw dropped to the floor. There are no words. Good riddance.
I wish I had told her off more, but I really didn’t. I told her that I was in my 9th month of pregnancy, we just got a new roof, etc. And despite being a lawyer, I do not make a ton of money and neither does my husband as a political staffer (they’re pretty notoriously underpaid). I feel really bad for another mutual friend she invited who is a doctor, but who is also a missionary who is part of a traveling vaccine program. And she makes very little. She’s a nice person, so she probably sent a small gift that she probably got somewhere in her travels, and this woman probably called to complain to her about it. Yeah, some people are just….ugh.
Just when you think you’ve heard it all…wow.
These comments are literally blowing my mind. I’ve been to plenty of weddings and never once had somebody complain about gifts. They’ve always been gracious and understanding to guests who may not have the money to spend on items like that. How do these people even exist??
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Thoroughly inexcusable and savage behavior! No grace whatsoever. Ugly.
Wow, are you f@cking kidding? The beyotch should have been grateful for what she got, not shame people for what she felt she didn’t get.
Omg!!!
Unbelievably rude, obnoxious and entitled. I would grudgingly understand exchanging the item if, say, the color was wrong for them and they preferred white to cream. But returning it with that note? Wow.
HAHA people are A-holes! My turn, my cousin sent invites a MONTH before getting married, that alone could get her no presents and although they had their home set up already she wanted a bridal shower for which she asked for gifts, dutifully I sent her one and cause my mom is a notorious a-hole I sent her ANOTHER one, I decided not to attend cause it was in the butt end of Miami AND also it was my last weekend with my bf before our schedules didn’t match anymore, only to hear she spent the party talking sh!t about me for not attending with my mom (super expected) and my Aunt (not her mom, someone who I would previously trust with everything and who btw i had to cajole into going as she wasn’t even in speaking terms with the bride to be due to falling out because of her rescheduling this very wedding and her losing the dress deposit that my aunt paid for). To shortcircuit all of this I confront the bride directly, she gets scared/caught and backpedals that she was only joking and to pleeeeaasssee go to her wedding, i go to the stupid poorly planned event, we barely talked, I STILL gave her some money and she never even gave thanks, I told my mom to count me out of every single special occasion from here on out for anyone not direct relative of mine cause screw that!
QQ.. Great story! I love reading these bc I’m blown away and thought some of my experiences were bad. Here’s my contribution (which is no where near as bad but again shows lack of manners imho). My childhood best friend got married and I was one of four bridesmaids which one was also her sister. Her mom and sister planned the entire bridal shower and it was held at their house. I offered numerous times to help but was told consistently that they didn’t need any help. Ok, here’s the rub…I never received an invitation to the shower but a guest who did told me they were surprised there were actually other bridesmaids in the wedding bc the invite said it was hosted by her sister and mom and nothing mentioned of the bridesmaids. Her mom then went on to tell each of the bridesmaids (who all were young, single and not yet making much money) that they each owed her a $100 for their contribution for throwing the shower. It may sound petty, but I was pissed that I had to contribute $100 for a shower that I got no credit for helping host, when I didn’t have the money, and also had to pay for a butt ugly bridesmaid dress and nasty shoes to match. The bride never sent a thank you note! Plus the bridesmaids also chipped in $100 each for a shower gift, per the moms request. I don’t speak to her anymore. After the wedding, that was it, it ruined our friendship.
I had two baby showers, but it was because my children were 15 years apart! Needless to say, we didn’t have anything left!
My family does not do baby showers. For some very sad reasons. We celebrate when the child is born.
<3 this. Not the sad reasons, but the way you and your fam honors it. Brava!
I’m shocked that there are actually “rules” about multiple baby showers. A new baby is always reason to celebrate, is it not? Even if you were to tell friends and family to not bring gifts, I can see them insisting on it. At least in my family I know they would. I seriously do not see the big deal.
Yes there are (and I’m coming from the perspective that I’m Godmother to 4 little people and auntie to 7) If I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on baby #1 (I’m talking party, expensive present and custom cake as well as free babysitting services) you need to be careful about what you ask people for. It can be over the top. If people want to give of their own free will let them do that, because most people will, but trust and believe to have showers for each child with mandatory gifts will land you with resentful relatives and a few less friends.
Hmmmm… I get invited to lots of baby showers and I’ve never once seen a list of mandatory gifts or even heard people ask for certain things. Must be a rich people thing. I don’t live in an area where people are “well off” and the mommy and daddy to be are usually just grateful for the love and support of their family and friends. They usually accept whatever gift is offered to them.
I once read that showers are “etiquette-wise” only supposed to be hosted by non-family members. This may not be common practice, but it makes sense, and would tend to be less opportunistic looking.
No matter how rich, I don’t think anyone refuses gifts and surprises.
I think its in poor taste to register for gifts when you have more $$ than you know what to do with. Celebrating the arrival of your baby is 1 thing…to be wealthy & still expect gifts is gross
BUT who says she registered for gifts? You are all making assumptions that this was about her receiving gifts instead of celebrating her unborn son. JFC.
Kendalls friends were there because they’re young hot and pretty ….you know like Kim thinks she still is . And i see Khloe is back on social media so much for taking time off – she’s posting pics of her new haircut aka taking extensions out. There really is no hope for these grifters
I’m mostly annoyed by the fact that these people (not just Kardashians, but most of Hollywood) give themselves showers. I’m old-school, it is supposed to be given by a friend, even a relative is not good form. Most people buy a baby gift when the baby is born anyway. Showers seem like begging to me.
I didn’t even know multiple baby shows was an issue, LOL. All of my friends had one for each child, but then I don’t have any excessively wealthy people in my entourage. I don’t see much of a problem with it in general, particularly if they don’t make gifts a requirement with the invite.
This actually sounds like a nice, low-key party. And Kim is wearing something that actually fits and is comfortable. Gotta give her credit for that.
There are pictures of Caityln at the party playing with North on the daily “Kardashian” oh I mean mail.
Best etiquette rule says you only get a shower with gifts for the first, but to each his own. In my family (who are typical of people from “the old country”) we give a shower for each child, but you only do a registry for the first. People always bring gifts, even though they’re not requested, but they’re much smaller than the gifts given for the first shower because the mother presumably has all the big ticket items left over from the first. Diapers, bottles and onesies are always needed because they’re either disposable or just unhygienic if not replaced after a few uses. For Kim, she had a girl, and now she’s having a boy, so unless you’re devoted to the gender-neutral thing I suppose many will be giving her blue or boy-themed toys, clothes and accessories. I think it’s fine.
KIm did do gender neutral – all whites, creams, blacks, tans, greys, etc. Unless it was a dress or skirt, or has a girly picture on it, her son can wear the same clothes.
I think a lot of people genuinely enjoy buying gifts for babies – picking out cute tiny outfits, etc.
It’s different when you are working from a registry walking down the aisle of Target or wherever with printouts in hand trying to match the items someone told you to buy whether it be for a wedding or baby.
So, if she wants a party to celebrate the impending arrival, whatever…. It doesn’t offend or annoy me. The people who are excited to celebrate with you will show up and bring a gift.
I don’t understand baby showers, I didn’t realise it was a thing in the uk till I saw people I know having them all over Facebook. I didn’t have one for my first and won’t be having one for my second.
I just find it strange people buying things for a baby, like a baby bath and stuff…surely you’d want to pick that out yourself, unless people do lists and stuff.
Nope to a strange phenomenon to me.
An Irish friend said showers blow her mind. She doesn’t get it either. Her family does a meet and greet after the baby is born. People usually bring an outfit and a home baked something so mom can rest.
The couple buys everything big on their own
I think it looks nice! I like how comfortable and cute tha matching pyjamas look.
does anyone else think the next headlines will be
“Kourtney is having Lamars baby”
When Lamar was on deaths door, Khloe realized she could lose him forever so she had doctors harvest sperm for future children. As Khloe has been very vocal about wanting children but has struggled with infertility in the past, big sister Kourt stepped in and offered to be a surragote. She had offered in the past, but then baby daddy Scott Disck shot down that plan as creepy and weird. Khloe is over the moon at having Lamars money child and securing a future of child support payments if Lamar does recover. Check out E! and Keeping up with the kardashians for more in upcoming episodes “
Am I the only person in the world who does not buy into her having a “hard time” to conceive crap? I think she went this route only because KanYe West demanded an heir and that to him is a boy. As for the shower, it looks rather Juvenile to me to have a themed shower like that when you are thirty-five years old and this is the second kid. But that is just me.
A lot of people who can afford it are doing PGD/PGS testing for gender selection. Some do it because they have a particular gene for a disease that is only carried by one sex, or they do it to balance out their family. (Major ethical questions with that one, but since I have a relative who kept having babies in a crazy quest for a daughter, resulting in 7 sons and a single daughter on a military man and housewife’s salary and not a dime saved up to send any of the 8 to college, gender selection through PGD seems downright ethical to me in comparison). Some also do it just for preference, as Kim may have done here. Since some people, especially in certain parts of the world, choose to terminate female fetuses due to a cultural preference for sons over daughters, I guess this is the more humane way of doing it. In some countries, gender selection for anything other than valid medical reasons is illegal. Not here in the U.S.
Regarding cultures that prefer male babies over female ones. I belong to one of those cultures and it truly sickens me. Yes, let’s allow gender selection so the women don’t have to get abortions when they find out it’s a girl…yeah ! Let’s reward these assholes and make it easier for them to have only males…yeah ! Look at India and China. The ratio of boys to girls is disgusting. Instead, we should be showing them the value of female babies and why they should give them a chance to live !
I don’t buy that s$it either. Fake claim for sympathy
Anyone should be able to celebrate as long as they have they money to do so. We don’t tell the poor to not celebrate do we? Why can’t the wealthy? Or the middle class. Who really cares what they do with their private lives.
Love the theme for this. I don’t see anything wrong with having a celebration, but I wouldn’t have a second baby shower and I certainly wouldn’t accept gifts.
People can say what they’d like about Kanye, but he asked that guests donate to the Chicago Children’s Hospital instead of bringing gifts when Kim had her baby shower when she was pregnant with North. I mean, this is a woman who kept all of the gifts she received when she married a man and divorced him after 70-something days. A lot of people said that the right thing to do would’ve been to at least attempt to give people their gifts back, especially since she got such lavish, expensive stuff that wasn’t just intended for her, but also for Kris Humphries. Kim really has no class whatsoever.
She never HAS had any class. And I know this is distracting from the subject but in the title picture she’s starting to look like a chimp with all the facial fillers and over-inflated lips. Severe hairstyle also does not help. I think she looks hideous and that is not the pregnancy doing that to her face. It’s the filler needle. Ugh.
Does this woman really NEED any gifts? No. But I doubt anybody bought her a crib or a diaper genie. Probably cute small things for a baby boy, and who wouldn’t want that from their (also wealthy) friends? It’s about the gesture, I’m okay with it.
Also okay with the second baby shower. If anything, it seems more like a “let’s have a fun girls night before this baby crashes the party!”
Didn’t think I’d be defending this one, but I am. It looked like a great time.
I find it rather crass to have a baby shower for a second child. You already have all the stuff you need with the first. Oh, wait a minute! We are talking about the Kartrashians!! Never mind.
Finally we can see Kim wearing something comfy and of the right size !
I was happy to see Caitlyn there. She’s probably wanted to have a girls days for so long. Glad her girls embraced her!
I know the norm in the USA for bridal/baby showers and wedding registries is to make a registry at some store for guests to buy presents.
However I feel baby/bridal showers arw very American, they’ll do bachelorette parties in France but baby and bridal showers are almost unheard of. Same thing in Spain while I lived there, I remember describing baby and bridal showers in the USA and they knew about them due to movies but they thought the tradition was kind of weird.
As for just getting money in lieu of gifts off a wedding registry — this doesn’t bother me. I’d rather give money to the happy couple to use as they desire, it’s a lot easier than trying to figure out what gift on a registry. And if it’s for the honeymoon, that’s fine by me. My cousins did this when they got married (French side of the family so they didn’t have to follow American traditions) and I’d rather help fund a trip that creates lasting memories than a boring fancy platter.
Call me an a-hole, but I think showers are only for people who can’t otherwise afford to spring for their own stuff to get started. In many cases, baby showers aren’t justified because couples can get so much free hand-me-downs from couples that have passed that stage, including the furniture and other big ticket items.
Wedding showers only make sense for couples who haven’t lived alone and don’t have their own kitchen stuff, furnishings, and so on. But when couples have already been living together for years? Um, that’s just being greedy.
Which isn’t to say I don’t believe in not gifting people for their wedding or new baby. I’m happy to buy something I think is useful for them.
And I’m not against having a party to celebrate. But please, please, please don’t call it a “shower” which connotes being showered with gifts. Call it a party to celebrate the new baby or the engagement, or whatever.
It’s really just the expectation that makes me shake my head. It’s so presumptive and unmodern: to have a pre-event event that expects gifts, plus the event itself that also requires gifts. Cheesy.
And for the super 0.001%? WTF? Buy your own damned stuff. I’ll come to the party and you’ll get what you get from me, but I’m not looking at your registry and I don’t care if you return my gift or throw it out. Super tacky for someone with so much money to expect other people with far less to cough up gifts for their lifestyle choice (getting married, having babies).
“I’m happy to buy something I think is useful for them.”
You don’t know exactly what will be useful for them. Maybe you don’t think a crock pot or rice cooker would be useful but you don’t know their cooking habits. It’s very bizarre that you would only buy someone a gift if YOU seem it useful, never mind if they’ve asked for it or not. Oftentimes for showers or weddings I just give a check. I wouldn’t dare buy something that wasn’t on a registry because I think it’s so rude. The bride/mom knows what she needs and will make her choices. Don’t like them? Either suck it up or skip the shower. My husband and I paid for our wedding out of pocket when we were 23 (he has made good money out of college) and had a very tasteful and low key registry with gifts from $5+. We had a relative who brought a literally 20 year old “new in box” random steak knife set that was falling apart. Our cousins who were 7 years older and had just gotten married regifted a picture frame. Some people came to the wedding in jeans and brought nothing. It was rude. Call me old fashioned but I think unless you had a special gift or a very thoughtful idea you should stick to the registry for something like a formal wedding. Baby showers, bring anything.
Why are men not more involved in baby showers? They are having a child as well. I think baby showers should be co-ed and involve the father as well. I mean if it was a lesbian couple would only the pregnant one be at the shower opening gifts and participating? I doubt it.
What!? Really!? Oh MY Grits!?
I’m having my first baby in a few months time and I will absolutely NOT have a baby shower.
I find the concept of inviting people to my house, for the sole purpose of admiring my baby bump and give me a present really contemptuous.
I have decided to have a baby with my partner, it is our responsibility to buy the necessary.
When I give birth, friends and family that care will come and visit, and give a present for the baby if they wish.
I have no expectation whatsoever.
I may reason like this because I am French, and baby showers do not traditionally exist in France. But I do wonder. If people attend a baby shower, are they also expected to bring a gift if they visit after the birth?
Yes. It’s called a “birth gift.” Something for the baby & food or flowers for the mother.
Most people give both a shower gift and a birth gift. I don’t expect anyone who attended the shower to bring a birth gift also.
Not only did Khloe show up for the baby shower, she also resumed updates on her app.
I wonder if the rest of the Klan is updating now, too? If not, that’s really not cool of Khloe to do.
Its a pity u cant give manners as a gift as they appear to be in short supply….
I had a baby shower for my second child… Another GIRL also. I was on bed rest and missed my eldest’s shower altogether (I watched it from my bed over Skype.) People just sent gifts to our house. With my second, I just wanted a lunch party. I didn’t care about gifts or silly games. But I wanted to experience having a baby shower once. In the end, so many people asked what I wanted and I couldn’t keep track so I made a registry. We called it a “baby sprinkle” and it was very fun. Just a lunch and people brought a small gift like a onesie or stuffed animal. I had no expectations or demands or any real needs. It was lovely and from the heart and I’m so glad I had that day.