Baby Shower Wishes for a Friend
With a close friend the card can do something the others cannot: promise a specific thing you will actually do.
The warm ones
- 1
You are going to be so good at this, and on the days you are not, I will be there.
- 2
I cannot wait to meet them and immediately be their favourite.
- 3
Twenty years of friendship and this is the most excited I have seen you.
- 4
So happy for you. Genuinely, properly happy.
The offers that count
The most useful baby shower card contains a dated promise.
- 5
I am bringing food in week two, when everyone else has stopped coming.
- 6
I will take the 3 a.m. phone call. Put my name on the list.
- 7
I will come and hold the baby while you shower. That is the offer.
- 8
I am doing your washing for a month. Do not argue.
- 9
I will walk the dog every day for the first fortnight.
Funny, if that is your friendship
- 10
Congratulations. You have made a person. Slightly showing off.
- 11
I have bought the loudest toy available and I will be giving it to them at eighteen months.
- 12
Delighted for you both. I am going to be a terrible influence.
Questions people actually ask
What is the best thing to write in a baby card for a close friend?
A specific promise with a time attached. "I am bringing food in week two" is worth more than any amount of well-wishing, because week two is when everyone else stops.