Baby shower after the baby is born?

[Nai]

I think that's usually called a "Head wetting" rather than a baby shower. We had one when DD1 was 4 weeks old. We invited a few of our closest friends and had it at our favourite brewery. We stayed for a couple of hours and then went home after a drink and something to eat. Everyone got to meet DD1 and have a cuddle. It was lovely and I didn't have to do anything other than turn up.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

I love Nai's idea of going somewhere so all you have to do is turn up

I had some relatives from interstate who were in town and wanted to come visit when DD was 2 weeks old. They spent lunch and almost the whole afternoon at our place. I was exhausted and it was a bit overwhelming to be honest. So probably it was a bit early for me. I couldn't have done it if my mum and dad weren't there to do all of the cooking/cleaning up/entertaining

[Calluna]

This is what I wanted to do, it would have been great except that MIL decided she'd take it upon herself to organise for everyone to come to our house the day after we got home from hossy! Everyone wanted to come at different times and apparently that was ok too. So we had people drifting in and out all day on our first day home NEVER again!

Anyway, my point is make sure you'll be ready for visitors and be sure everyone knows the start time and sticks to it!