Baby showers are tough when you desperately want to become a parent. Here are two more tips for surviving baby showers while you are waiting to adopt your child.

3. Don’t host baby showers.

Hosting a baby shower is a really bad idea because it keeps babies on your mind for weeks on end. You have to think about babies when you address the invitations, purchase the paper products, choose the cake, and do the many other tasks that are necessary to plan a baby shower. I know all too well:... more

Unlike the holidays, which you can see coming on the calendar and plan for, baby showers are the bombs that can go off in your life at any time. It seemed like I was constantly being invited to baby showers throughout my own waiting period. I thought it would get easier after I completed the home study, but it never did.

Every time I went to a baby shower, I faced the following issues:

I still wasn’t a mother. I would never experience being pregnant. I wondered if... more