Baby Shower 嬰兒送禮會

We just recently celebrated a Chinese-style baby shower with our friends from church, though baby showers are not really Chinese custom. Americans celebrate a baby's arrival before he or she comes. We throw a party, set up an account at a local store to let people know what we need and end up with many crates of diapers 尿布and useless knick knacks anyway. The idea is to celebrate and help the new parents to prepare for the coming baby.

On the other hand, traditional Chinese culture celebrates babies one month after they are born 滿月. In fact, mothers do not often even go out until after the month, but I'll talk more about that in a future post. There is a big feast and everyone comes and celebrates the newborn.

On this occasion, we had all sorts of group games 遊戲, including tasting dabs of baby food to guess the flavor 味道. A good friend of mine did well (2 out of 4) on this. There was also measuring the size of the future mother's stomach with pieces of toilet paper and other challenges.