Any recent moms who had a virtual baby shower as a result of Covid? If so could you share details/recs on how to organize?

Looking to plan one for a friend who’s due in August.

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Helped plan one for my sister-in-law! It was cute, we played virtual baby bingo, had some guessing games (when will baby be born, weight, eye color).... everyone sent in a baby picture and I put them in a powerpoint for us to guess who was who.... we also all bought her dinner and coordinated with hubby to have it delivered while we were online with her... pretty fun for what it was!

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Love these ideas thank you!

I went to one two weeks ago - it was awkward. Not gonna lie.

Ya... this is what I’m worried about. But it’s my best friends first baby so trying to give her a little bit of the shower experience. Is there anything you think made it unnecessarily so or that could have made it a little better?

We wrote a baby book for a coworker, turned it into a sweet little PDF book with illustrations et al.

Other ones we’ve virtually collected funds to give to them in an e-gift card or buying an item from their registry (usually a bigger ticket item like a stroller).

man, now that i think it it, everyone’s having babies at work. Done so many baby showers thru zoom. Usually we make a fake meeting, everyone has a themed zoom background, we present the gift, then awkwardly chat over drinks on zoom.

Hosted one for a colleague at work via Zoom. We assembled a video montage on VidHug which was super easy and allowed us to provide that “keepsake” gift. E-gift cards, has a cake delivered, sent a decoration kit from Amazon that her husband decorated for us and played a few games. She then gave us a tour of the nursery which was cute too.

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