Having a baby is a prime time for getting gifts. You can create a whole registry with precisely what you want, and your friends and loved ones will get it for you! If you're smart, you won't tell your friends and family the gender of your baby, so at the baby shower, you'll only get practical gifts like high chairs and playpens. If you ask for gender-specific things, you might end up with a bunch of truck shirts you don't want or 5 million pink onesies that the baby will only fit into for 4 weeks.
I don't think there's anything wrong with asking for baby items for a baby shower or asking family members for old baby products and clothes that have been rotting away in their basements for years. But there's a vast difference between asking for things that have long been out of use and asking for items that a child in the family is currently using.
I don't think there's anything wrong with asking for baby items for a baby shower or asking family members for old baby products and clothes that have been rotting away in their basements for years. But there's a vast difference between asking for things that have long been out of use and asking for items that a child in the family is currently using.