Re: Re Wipe warmers (was : Nappies (was Hello !)

[Guest guest]

>>My personal theory is that wipes warmers are a byproduct of the baby shower

industry.

Haha, this brought back memories. I was in the US when I was 7 months pregnant,

and had dinner with the very sweet, but very American girlfriend of a friend of

ours.

Oh you must have enjoyed buying all those cute little baby items, right, she

says.

Dh and I look at each other.

Eeeh, we haven't really bought a thing, we say.

Shock, horror. She looks at us in disbelief.

Oh, but at least you will be getting lots at the baby shower, she says.

The baby shower? we say. We get visions of another crazy American consumer item

- ie a special shower for a baby?

The babies we know have baths, we say.

No, no, she says, the BABY SHOWER.

Long explanations follow.

I don't she really believed us although we kept insisted that we'd never heard

of such a thing, and that no - my mother, my company, my mother-in-law, the

neighbours, and our friends were not all going to arrange crazy baby shower

parties to shower us with gifts...

Karina

Mum to Emilia (Oct 98) and Sebastian (Aug 00)