Baby shower or no?

How important is having a baby shower? I keep going back and forth on wether I want to throw one or not. I thought I’d want one to celebrate baby but don’t have many friends at this point in life and any family that would come is all on my side anyways cause my partner doesn’t have contact with his family so I’m just really feeling like there’s not much point in throwing one.. it would be helpful for getting some baby things as I’m about to be a ftm and have absolutely nothing for baby yet but then I see people talking about how no one even buys things off of their registries anyways so I don’t know if I want to go out of my way to throw a whole party just to have very few people show up and possibly not be helpful in getting me useful baby items. Does that seem selfish? I’m floundering out here lol give me some words of wisdom, what should I do?

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That's completely understandable. Having a party for nobody to show up it sucks and kind of a let down. Since it would just be your family, you could have a nesting "party", where you have family and/friends come over and help get the house ready for baby. Like cleaning (i know fun fun lol), putting together furniture, etc... You can still have food, and such, but it wouldn't be such a stressful thing. And you'll get much needed stuff done without all the extra stress 🤷🏽‍♀️ Just a thought

@Amber I did think about that too but I currently live in a tiny apartment and feel like people would just be on top of each other and nothing truly helpful would actually get done. And I think that would just be stressful on myself and my partner because we enjoy keeping our space to ourselves