jealous that i dont live in america

cheryl74 · February 2011

A huge amount of people on this forum live in America and I keep reading stories of baby showers (although I'm not 100% on what they are) delicious sounding.foods and great cheap places for clothes and baby things. The UK is so expensive, I just bought a maternity shirt and it was twenty quid (about $15) and it wasn't anything special lol. I think I'm gonna move lol x

Momma_luvz_her_4 · February 2011

Baby showers are a party somone makes for you. They invite your family and friends have food and drinks. The family and friends usually bring you gifts for the baby like clothes or items such as swings cribs highchairs bouncy chairs etc....

cheryl74 · February 2011

Ah thanks, we definitely don't do that here. It sounds so much fun. :-)

ScarlettsMama · February 2011

A baby shower is like a big party for women that u have in honor of the new mommy and everyone brings a gift from a baby registry list that the mom makes at a particular store she likes. Its just an excuse for us bastard americans to have a party and get gifts!!! Lol!

MSC · February 2011

lol $15 for a maternity shirt is still cheap here.

Louisesfirstbaba · February 2011

@cheryl74 lots of my friends here in the uk have had baby showers, im also having one around 30w

katlilly · February 2011

Haha...never thought I'd hear someone be jealous of Americans

klee · February 2011

$15 for a maternity shirt is actually a really good deal!! The ones I've looked at are at least $25 and they're nothing special either, the really nice ones are around $50, so, its not really anything special to be living here, also you don't need to live here to have a baby shower, someone that loves/cares for you just need to throw you a baby party.

cheryl74 · February 2011

@MSC I keep reading about army and navy and things for 5 and 10 dollers. Lol. @BellaReust it sounds great. People here are boring. I have never come across anyone here having 1 x

cheryl74 · February 2011

@loubylou where in the UK are you? I'm down in devon and have never come across it. @katlilly yep I sure am, we actually had our first ever holiday booked for america when I found out I was pregnant. Now we have to put it back as I would've been 8 months pregnant. X

MSC · February 2011

@cheryl74 lol Those are the people that have spouses in the military or they themselves are in the service - things are cheaper when buy on the base....but for us civilians...ha! We're talkin' $30 at least sometimes....

cheryl74 · February 2011

@MAC ah I see lol, I didn't put 2 and 2 together (prego brain) ol so were equal on clothes but that still leaves all the food lol x

keeshkeesh07 · February 2011

Lol nothing special I'm telling you, why do you think that 75% of americans are obese and overweight? May be good tasting but most is not good for you lol!

Louisesfirstbaba · February 2011

Im from Liverpool

you will have to orginise one, or get someone to do for you, its a laugh and you get lots of cute clothes, toys etc x

cheryl74 · February 2011

@keeshkeesh07 that made me laugh I know what you mean but I watch it on tv and all the tummy recipes on here and my stuff looks dull. And hell I can't stop eating at the mo lol x

cheryl74 · February 2011

@loubylou I will put it to friends and family :-)

jalem · February 2011

You can throwone for.yourself and for the food we Americans don't have any foods from ourself we eat stuff from other countries and claim it as ours lolz so u could Google recipes or go out to eat... lolz... but like some one.said were all obese here so be careful what u eat

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AND83 · February 2011

America is a great place to live. It's kind of nice to see someone say they're jealous of Americans instead of the usual "stupid Americans" comments

Sheron · February 2011

We don hv baby showers in asia too.... but we r superstitious, so furniture & clothes for e baby will hv to wait till due date. But we do hv 1st mth celebration though.

momofmany79 · February 2011

I live in the west midlands uk me and me sis in law am both pregnant she is 5 weeks ahead of me well me and her am having a joint baby shower which we am looking forward to never had 1 and I doe know anyone who has had 1 so we cor wait to be the first to try 1 lol :-D

kritten_octoberbby · February 2011

Yea europe doesnt have any fun lol.. glad im not from there. My grandma loves being here but she misses germany

mommyof3girls · February 2011

America is great... just sayin!

Jwigs · February 2011

Hey. You send me those little chocolate bars with the penguin on the wrapper and i'll send you some delicious, fatty American food.

cheryl74 · February 2011

@AND83 its so true though, I love eveything about America, I'm kinda obsessed lol. @Jwigs its a deal, my girls eat penguin bars all the time lol x thanks ladies Xx x

cheryl74 · February 2011

@momofmany79 I hope it goes well :-) @Mama_Kat I'll just send you some money lol then you can shop for me x x

SamiUK · February 2011

@cheryl74 google maternity clothes found some really nice cheap stuff and i got some nice maternity jeans from new look for 12£ also ebay there's a few shops on there that have nice and cheap maternity clothes that are good quality

natalie_uk · February 2011

I love america! My uncle lives in long island, i hve been once and loved it. We send over kinder suprises as my cousins cant get them over there and really miss em lol wish i could live there :-)