When your best friend, sister, sister-in-law, neighbor, or coworker calls you with the exciting news that she is having a baby, you know you have an important job to do: planning the baby shower! Should you throw a shower? Should you plan it alone? Who should you invite? When should you have it? What should you serve? How should you decorate? Should dads or husbands be invited? Should alcohol be served? Should the shower wait until the baby has arrived? With a “should” in every question, what should a shower-thrower do?