What to Write in a Baby Shower Card — 50 Messages (UK)

The baby shower card: a joyful occasion with specific requirements

A baby shower card sits between an occasion card and a personal message — it's celebratory and warm, but it's also about someone who is about to go through something enormous. The best messages acknowledge both the joy and the person, without overloading them with parenting advice they didn't ask for.

Heartfelt baby shower messages

• Congratulations! You are going to be such a wonderful mum — anyone who has watched you care for the people around you already knows this. Wishing you a smooth final chapter and the most beautiful arrival. We are so excited for you.
• A baby shower is the part where everyone gets to celebrate the anticipation before the adventure begins. We're so glad to be celebrating you today. Congratulations — every good wish for what comes next.
• The love you have to give is going to make this child the luckiest person. Congratulations on your baby shower — we're all so excited to meet them.

Warm baby shower messages for a colleague

• Congratulations on your baby shower! We're so excited for you and your growing family. Wishing you a wonderful final few weeks and a very happy arrival.
• Warmest congratulations — we're all so thrilled for you. Wishing you a smooth and healthy delivery and the most beautiful start to parenthood.
• Many congratulations on your baby shower! We're going to miss you while you're on maternity leave, and we cannot wait to hear your news. Wishing you every happiness.

For a close friend's baby shower

• Watching you become a mother is one of the things I've been most looking forward to. The baby has no idea how lucky they are — but they're going to find out. Congratulations on today and on everything that's coming.
• I could not be more excited for you and more certain that you're going to be brilliant at this. Congratulations on your baby shower — I'm here for every step of what comes next.

Funny baby shower messages

• Congratulations! The sleep deprivation starts soon, but apparently so does the overwhelming love that makes it worth it. Everyone promises this is true. We're rooting for you.
• Congratulations on your baby shower! Enjoy the last few weeks of making plans and knowing that the plans will be kept. Everything after this is wonderfully unpredictable. We can't wait to hear about it.

Short baby shower messages

• Congratulations! Wishing you a smooth delivery and a beautiful arrival.
• So happy for you — congratulations on your baby shower!
• What wonderful news. Congratulations — we're all so excited for you.

What to avoid

• Don't offer labour or birth advice unless asked.
• Don't predict the baby's gender or appearance.
• Don't mention anything about body changes.

Organising the baby shower gift from the group

A pooled baby gift from the whole team is almost always more useful and more appreciated than ten individual small gifts. An online baby shower group card from Thankeeu lets everyone sign the card and contribute to the gift pool at the same time — paid by card in GBP, no personal accounts. Create one here.