Attack of the baby planners!
What?! Concierge service for your baby?
Well, something like that. A recent ABC News article talks about busy women who hire planners to help organize their pregnancy and post-partum details. How new millennium of them!
I must say -- picking out items for our baby registry (with that cute, portable grocer scanner) and pacing the aisles for that perfect crib certainly helped keep my mind off of the late pregnancy aches and pains (check out my preggo tips), but I can still see the appeal in hiring someone.
Even more important than shopping, though, I think there should ALWAYS be baby planners for baby showers. I have watched too many baby showers go awry because people insert their own personal feelings about the couple, the friend's baby, their own baby and so on. I helped plan one shower where I felt like I was negotiating a wedding menu: "Our family eats pork. We don't care that hers doesn't. We want pork." Really? Okay, maybe it was more like World War peace treaty negotiations... it wasn't pretty.
That being said, I think the best person in that situation would have been someone NOT personally related to either side to lay the smack down on the foolishness and just give the happy parents-to-be what THEY wanted. So... sounds like the baby planners' job descriptions just earned a new line item.
Take home (in case you missed my rant): Pick someone you don't know to plan your baby shower. Or else, you leave yourself open to the squabbles, the power struggles between girlfriends/sisters, and you may end up with dra-ma at the actual event. Take it from me GALs -- pick a STRANGER. You'd be better off.
Dr. Ty
From the GAL Blog
www.getalifecampaign.com
Well, something like that. A recent ABC News article talks about busy women who hire planners to help organize their pregnancy and post-partum details. How new millennium of them!I must say -- picking out items for our baby registry (with that cute, portable grocer scanner) and pacing the aisles for that perfect crib certainly helped keep my mind off of the late pregnancy aches and pains (check out my preggo tips), but I can still see the appeal in hiring someone.
Even more important than shopping, though, I think there should ALWAYS be baby planners for baby showers. I have watched too many baby showers go awry because people insert their own personal feelings about the couple, the friend's baby, their own baby and so on. I helped plan one shower where I felt like I was negotiating a wedding menu: "Our family eats pork. We don't care that hers doesn't. We want pork." Really? Okay, maybe it was more like World War peace treaty negotiations... it wasn't pretty.
That being said, I think the best person in that situation would have been someone NOT personally related to either side to lay the smack down on the foolishness and just give the happy parents-to-be what THEY wanted. So... sounds like the baby planners' job descriptions just earned a new line item.
Take home (in case you missed my rant): Pick someone you don't know to plan your baby shower. Or else, you leave yourself open to the squabbles, the power struggles between girlfriends/sisters, and you may end up with dra-ma at the actual event. Take it from me GALs -- pick a STRANGER. You'd be better off. Dr. Ty
From the GAL Blog
www.getalifecampaign.com
Labels: ABC News, baby, baby shower, friendship, planners, pregnancy
posted by #1 GAL, Dr. Ty! at
7:05 PM
2 Comments:
It is funny how things are now. Having a baby is a whole new game. Great blog!
Well I know how this sounds, but just like you hire a stranger to help you plan your wedding it doesn't help to have someone navigate this new world of baby gadgets and toxic toys. I just had my baby and I hired South Florida Baby Planners to help me with all these things. The advice of my mom, sisters and friends is irreplaceable, however these aren't my mother's times where there were no car seats to choose from or when toys and baby bottles contain things like BPA or Lead. I know where you are coming from but they were a big help.
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