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How To Get A Mother Blessing For Yourself

So, you've heard all about Mother Blessings and you're sure you just have to have one but are also sure your friends and family have their hearts set on a baby shower? Well, the good news is, I have a couple suggestions!

First, I would recommend talking with the "party planner" of your family or group of friends and share this guide with her. Let that person know how important and meaningful the ceremony would be to you and that you will help them "adjust" from baby showers to Mother Blessings. Usually, when your family and friends realize how important this is to you, they will make the transition. Hopefully, all of the easy to understand, practical advice here at Snowboard Mommy Productions will make it easy for them to say "Yes"!

However, if you have a stubborn group that is dead-set on a baby shower, my suggestion is to remember that it is perfectly acceptable for you and your partner to have a private, intimate Mother Blessing for yourselves! Baby showers and Mother Blessings are not mutually exclusive -- you can do both. And I believe that they would complement each other; with the baby shower focused on gifts and silly games and the Mother Blessing focused on preparing you for birth. Even if you have to endure a baby shower for the sake of others, there must be someone you can talk into doing a Mother Blessing with you. You only need one other person to indulge you, although two might provide a better "critical mass." Whether it's your partner, child, friend, close relative, midwife or doula, I just can't imagine that there isn't at least one person who, when you let them know how much a Mother Blessing would mean to you, that they wouldn't do it for you. My guess is that when others close to you hear about your plans to have a "do-it-yourself" Mother Blessing, you will probably end up having to decide whether to keep it small, private and intimate, or make it into a larger celebration -- and the choice will be yours! Good luck!