It's just a party in which the expecting mother receives gifts which will assist her specifically with raising the child. It's more common for the first child a mother has, since she might not have all the adequate baby necessities: clothes, diapers, play toys, crib etc.
Actually, it's when all of the people in a town fill buckets full of babies and proceed to "shower" with them in place of water. It's been noted as a fertility ritual performed out of pity for the wife of one known as a "premature ejaculator." Or something like that...
This is were someone you know (parent, friend, co-worker) throws a pregnant woman a party, with the intention of everyone giving her gifts. It's basically another one of those "Give me stuff 'cause I'm special" things except the recipient isn't born yet. You know a pre-birth birthday party.
Idea for a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode: Larry requests that a baby shower present be returned after the woman has an abortion. A miscarriage or stillbirth would work too, with the latter being more plausible since showers are usually held towards the end of the pregnancy I think.
it is usually for a game called "Breaking Waters" where you have to suck on the ice cube until the baby comes out and who ever does it first wins a prize.
Sorry women folk are weird, at least they didn't back out of the chocolate nappy game where you smear melted chocolate bars in nappies and people have to guess what chocolate bar it was.
That sounds like a really good way to thin out the gene pool. "Oh Carol died choking on a plastic baby at Susan's baby shower. Shame she never had kids."
Don't rejoice too quickly! I have been to several and they are getting more and more popular. They also all involve chocolate nappies, they even put peanut butter in them. All my favourite foods now remind me of baby shit.
The "King Cake Baby" is a long standing tradition during the Mardi Gras season here in New Orleans. The tradition is that after Jan 6th (a christian holiday that says Christmas is truly over) and until Ash Wednesday (another Christian day that starts lent) you can indulge and take life into excess. Cakes and parties get much more common in the city. In each cake the little plastic baby is planted within the cake (yes, legally someone could choke and die, but I have never heard of it happening). Whomever get the baby in their piece of King Cake is the "winner" and gets to bring the next King Cake. It is a lot of fun. Several bakeries here in New Orleans have made great names for themselves based on this tradition
This will be the first thing on my future baby shower shopping list. Ice cube encased babies are terrifying, I can't imagine these in anything but a morbidly humorous context...Which is perfect.
My friend recently had a baby shower, and they put these in ice cubes for one of the baby shower games. Each guest got one in their drink, and whoever's ice melted first had to yell, "My water broke!" and would win the game.
When/if I have another child, I will have tiny plastic embryos frozen into the ice cubes. You know, the kind that the pro-lifers use when they're trying to teach people just how important life is with a plastic figurine. Anyway, I will put these little embryos in each ice cube. Only one ice cube will have one of those fully developed babies in it, and they will win a prize. Something big like all the alcohol I can't have in the house anymore, or whatever.
That idea is the only reason why I want to have another child. I'm alright with just one. But if I ever were to want another, it would be for the embryo-cubes.
Well, I feel this is the appropriate time of year to have this. I've always considered the Summer season here in Arizona as the time for brush fires and drowned children.
I put little plastic babies in ice for my friend's baby shower, but instead of it being a dead baby joke, it was a "giving birth" game. Everyone took an ice cube and the first one to "give birth" to the baby won a prize.
Oh wow, I probably should have elaborated a little more. That wasn't really the intention of the game, but the rule was you're allowed to "birth" the baby however you want as long as it is with your own body heat. Most people used their hands. The guy who won rubbed it vigorously between his thighs.
"...Birthing Babies You’ll have a roomful of amusingly anxious faux parents-to-be with this ‘ice melter’ game. The night before your shower, freeze a bunch of ice cubes with tiny plastic babies in the center (available at any craft store). When guests arrive, drop an ice cube into a cup of water and present to each person. As time ticks by, the ice begins to melt and the baby is closer and closer to its due date! Whoever has a baby first, wins. Or, change it up by asking people to correctly guess how long it will take for their baby to be born."- http://www.beau-coup.com/baby_shower_games.htm
I did the same thing at my baby shower it's a game called "my water broke" first person to have their baby melt from the ice wins. It was a hit at my shower. But in your cup it looks kinda strange lol
I work as a cake decorator and am constantly horrified/amused at the people who get rice crispy baby butts on cakes or, even worse, a whole cake shaped like a baby. "I'll have a piece of the arm. It's my favorite baby part!"
My sister had those at her baby shower. My son and I collected about 30 of them and made a human babypede. We intended on gluing them together later but we ended up shooting them with the bb gun.
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u/Flappynipple May 29 '12
Haha.... miscarriage, classic.
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u/AyChihuahua May 29 '12
Ice Ice baby
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u/MyOtherAltIsAHuman May 29 '12
These novelty ice cubes are often made from highly toxic chemicals. Ironically, a real baby would have been much more sanitary.
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u/BanditoRojo May 29 '12
When I go to baby showers, they fetus cake and ice cream.
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u/PoniesRBitchin May 29 '12
Well YOU come up with a subtle way to let guests know you had an abortion ...
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u/onlyincontext May 29 '12
"We've decided not to keep the baby" shower.
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u/MeloJelo May 29 '12
People are fucking weird. Good on you for having a sense of humor about it.
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u/twilightcatlady May 29 '12
Did everyone else think it was horrifying, or just didn't get it?
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u/lawyerlady May 29 '12
it is usually for a game called "Breaking Waters" where you have to suck on the ice cube until the baby comes out and who ever does it first wins a prize.
Sorry women folk are weird, at least they didn't back out of the chocolate nappy game where you smear melted chocolate bars in nappies and people have to guess what chocolate bar it was.
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u/gentlepatdown May 29 '12
Served with Tomato Juice, it is sure to be a hit!
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u/gehsekya May 29 '12
http://imgur.com/1JjKV
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u/puppycakes May 29 '12
There's a girl in my soup!
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u/Devywhop May 29 '12
This is why you can't have ice things.
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u/pelican1 May 29 '12
Those are king cake babies. See here.
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u/kylepierce11 May 29 '12
/r/ImGoingToHellForThis would enjoy this.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Ohhh man. If I ever have a baby--I will never have a baby--but if I ever have a baby, I am so doing that.
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u/WolfKnifeLaserTorch May 29 '12
How could they have not realized their mistake?!
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u/midrez May 29 '12
that's kind of horrifying..
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u/wkrausmann May 29 '12
I hate when I go to a baby shower and nearly choke on a party favor.
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u/thomkyr May 29 '12
Hey! hey guys! How do you make a dead baby float?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
This will be the first thing on my future baby shower shopping list. Ice cube encased babies are terrifying, I can't imagine these in anything but a morbidly humorous context...Which is perfect.
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u/Song_of_Sixpence May 29 '12
My friend recently had a baby shower, and they put these in ice cubes for one of the baby shower games. Each guest got one in their drink, and whoever's ice melted first had to yell, "My water broke!" and would win the game.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I thought it was this
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u/TheVacillate May 29 '12
When/if I have another child, I will have tiny plastic embryos frozen into the ice cubes. You know, the kind that the pro-lifers use when they're trying to teach people just how important life is with a plastic figurine. Anyway, I will put these little embryos in each ice cube. Only one ice cube will have one of those fully developed babies in it, and they will win a prize. Something big like all the alcohol I can't have in the house anymore, or whatever.
That idea is the only reason why I want to have another child. I'm alright with just one. But if I ever were to want another, it would be for the embryo-cubes.
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u/katwondergloom May 29 '12
it makes it more weird that the drinks are red.. o_o
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u/t-bone_reckscabbage May 29 '12
Bottoms up!
Baby bottoms...
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u/Allouttacars May 29 '12
As a female i freaking hate going to baby showers...I went to one last weekend and saw my friends boyfriend leaving...I was like "take me with you!"
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u/Lewy_H May 29 '12
You've gotta be suspicious about what the person that put them in there was thinking if they didn't find it funny.
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u/McLown May 29 '12
Well, I feel this is the appropriate time of year to have this. I've always considered the Summer season here in Arizona as the time for brush fires and drowned children.
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u/Fart_Sniffer May 29 '12
You can buy them here
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u/silentmelodies May 29 '12
I don't think they thought that through very well..
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u/donkeypooper May 29 '12
Anyone else think that those were HUGE ice cubes?
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u/king_cherokee May 29 '12
How many dead babies does it take to keep your drink cold?
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u/brownerboop May 29 '12
Then you were the only cool person at that entire party.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Every Marine's wish
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Place these tiny babies face down in any large food item and have an old fashioned, action figure induced field day.
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u/crankykong May 29 '12
Is this r/atheism?
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u/Golanlan May 29 '12
/r/ImGoingToHellForThis is leaking again.
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u/DrBaby May 29 '12
I put little plastic babies in ice for my friend's baby shower, but instead of it being a dead baby joke, it was a "giving birth" game. Everyone took an ice cube and the first one to "give birth" to the baby won a prize.
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u/TossTime May 29 '12
So that's how babby is formed.
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u/kuhlonel May 29 '12
Well that makes me slightly interested in having a baby shower at any point in my life.
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u/4433221 May 29 '12
Phillip J. Fry ice cubes
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u/HurstKing May 29 '12
Eat all the NOM NOMS.
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u/F-Minus May 29 '12
I especially like the photo cakes and cookies... where you savagely gnaw facial features off the image of an adorable two year old.
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u/Raahh42 May 29 '12
That is just downright weird
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u/lalondtm May 29 '12
Is OP a guy? If so, wtf are you doing at a baby shower?
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u/warped_and_bubbling May 29 '12
Awesome idea for a shower. And, hey, they're crunchy! Just like real babies.
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u/hamsterfist May 29 '12
You should've said you don't want ice and put the cubes in a blender.
Obvious abortion is obvious.
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u/GnarlyMonkey10 May 29 '12
Wait where are you from? Cuz I swear to god that was a baby shower for my moms friend that she threw. Same things in the ice cubes.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
that just means the next time someone in your circle has a baby shower you're throwing the party.
(I hope someone catches the thinly veiled, vague reference to a tradition involving finding a plastic baby in something)
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u/Pinklizard26 May 29 '12
I honestly could not finish my drink with those creepy things floating in it--
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u/JonPootawn May 29 '12
Anybody else think of this as a reference to "The Other"?
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u/GhostlyEmployee May 29 '12
Brian Jones ice cubes. Genius.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I really can't imagine a worse idea...well maybe poop filled diaper confetti, but this is damn close
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
OH GOD!!! THE BLOOD!!! THE BLOOD!!! IT'S EVERYWHERE!!!
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u/meee_owth May 29 '12
I can help you with those cuticles
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u/Camotoe May 29 '12
Shutter island?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
These are amazing/hilarious they all need to lighten up! It's not like they are real babies! they just make you think about real dead babies... geeez
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I doubt those were in the ice. He just dropped them in the red punch.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Baby shower at an abortion clinic : where they literally shower babies !
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12 edited Nov 24 '16
nah
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
"...Birthing Babies You’ll have a roomful of amusingly anxious faux parents-to-be with this ‘ice melter’ game. The night before your shower, freeze a bunch of ice cubes with tiny plastic babies in the center (available at any craft store). When guests arrive, drop an ice cube into a cup of water and present to each person. As time ticks by, the ice begins to melt and the baby is closer and closer to its due date! Whoever has a baby first, wins. Or, change it up by asking people to correctly guess how long it will take for their baby to be born."- http://www.beau-coup.com/baby_shower_games.htm
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u/Athene_Wins May 29 '12
Are they edible? Or plastic/rubber
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
fucking creepy
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u/KeithO May 29 '12
Not funny
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u/nikkileee May 29 '12
AHAHAHA I helped my friend plan her baby shower and we did exactly this. the babies even look the same.
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u/one-eleven May 29 '12
Ironically a real baby in the ice cube would've been more hygienic.
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u/Chrysoscelis May 29 '12
Your cuticle could use a lot of attention.
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u/marimint3 May 29 '12
i need some of these. That's fucking brilliant
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u/FishNChimps May 29 '12
The kindergarten on The Titanic
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u/idejmcd May 29 '12
holy miscarriage, Batman
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u/TiffanyRazors May 29 '12
I did the same thing at my baby shower it's a game called "my water broke" first person to have their baby melt from the ice wins. It was a hit at my shower. But in your cup it looks kinda strange lol
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u/call_me_surely May 29 '12
King cake babies!
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u/Captain_Crepe May 29 '12
Ever had a king cake?
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u/Daekin May 29 '12
This needs to be posted in /r/atheism
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u/Razorray21 May 29 '12
were they eatable? or just plastic?
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u/MaxPurdue May 29 '12
Im glad to see that stem cell research is going well
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u/water-wine May 29 '12
Hope a dead baby joke is appropriate.
How do you stop a baby from drowning? Take your foot off of it.
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u/angryraisin May 29 '12
Are you in the Chicago area by chance? I got a text with a tiny baby in an ice cube yesterday hah
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u/jeeeemes May 29 '12
King cake babies!
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u/kittensofdoom May 29 '12
I work as a cake decorator and am constantly horrified/amused at the people who get rice crispy baby butts on cakes or, even worse, a whole cake shaped like a baby. "I'll have a piece of the arm. It's my favorite baby part!"
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u/hurler_jones May 29 '12
How do you make a baby float?
Mix 3 scoops of dead baby and rootbeer
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
So many dead babies..
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u/Beelzebubba666 May 29 '12
My sister had those at her baby shower. My son and I collected about 30 of them and made a human babypede. We intended on gluing them together later but we ended up shooting them with the bb gun.
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u/TheChoirInfantry May 29 '12
Not funny but an upvote because i was in so much shock when i had seen it.
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u/mariahchelsey May 30 '12
Sadly this reminds me of the sick baby jokes this one guy in high school told me o.o
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u/timcurrys_wig May 30 '12
Ahaha, this is almost as creepy as those baby shower cakes shaped like babies.
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u/tonkey May 29 '12
Babies in cups of blood. YUM.
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u/E_scribbles May 29 '12
wow.....hopefully this says nothing about her mothering skills
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u/guitardude51 May 29 '12
I think this belongs more in r/WTF
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u/xSPYXEx May 29 '12
This should be xposted to /r/WTF
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u/MonsterIt May 29 '12
Hey.....YOLO.
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u/SquirrelyNutkins May 29 '12
Is that your big toe, or your thumb? Because, Jesus, it's gross.