When is the ideal time of pregnancy to have a baby shower?

[Frangipani]

I had mine (only did the 1 with first baby) at 35+3 weeks.

I worked with mainly women at the time (except for my boss) I ended up kinda using it as a fairwell party - I'd finished up work the day before - and they were all pretty good friends too. In my case I also had to wait til some family got back from holidays, and waited til after all the easter and long weekends around April/May, otherwise I'd probably would have had it a couple of weeks earlier (as I had a feeling I was going to have DS1 earlier). DS1 was born at 37+1weeks.

Most other baby showers I'd been to were after 35-36weeks too (and come to think of it...most of them ended up having their baby around 10days later)

[crumpet]

we had mine at 24 weeks....

but we have issues and wernt sure when and if id end up in hospital on bed rest and it was a bit of a celebration for making it to 24 weeks as well....

to be honest it worked well becasue i was totally knackered after it so there is no way i would have managed to have it at say 34weeks.....

[Curlygirly]

Thanks ladies for letting me know. If everything goes to plan I'm going to do mine at 7 months, that way I can still be a host and also have the (hopefully glow and energy while being preg