Multiple baby showers

The origin of the baby shower:
To shower the mother(parents) to be with all of the love, attention, advice and items necessary for their transition into new parenthood.

Attention: Once you have a kid, you have the stuff and advice you need.

The women having 2 or 3 showers PER KID piss me off. I get having 2 or 3 showers for the first kid (although a little silly, imo). But if you figure mom's family, dad's family, co-workers, church members, club members, etc...there's a lot of reasons why someone may have more than one shower. I don't even really mind the multiple showers for the first kid.

It's when someone has two or three showers for kid a and then less than two or three years later has another kid and has another registry, another 2 or 3 showers...come on.

It's not your social circle's responcibility to shell out money every time you have a kid.

I get if you had one and then your second pregnancy you find out it's multiples (twins, etc). Yeah, you need more than one carseat, more clothes, another crib, etc.

I get if you have a kid and then 5 or 6 years later find out your pregnant again after having sold all your shit at a garage sale.

But come on...a year seperation? Your kid is barely out of the stuff that you need for a new baby! If you want to have a celebratory party, that's fine...but don't call it a baby shower, that implies gifts.

It's right up there with push presents--but that's another story.