With Media Girl just weeks away from giving birth, members of the female persuasion came from near and far for a baby shower.
Regardless of how baby showers are currently marketed, it occurs to me that origins of the baby shower must tie into Passover as a form of ritual sacrifice. Rather than sacrificing a lamb, women make offerings of gifts. And rather than making that offering in the hopes that death will pass their house, women are hoping pregnancy will pass them by.
If you think about it, the last weeks of pregnancy should rightly be a somber time of condolences. Sorry you don't sleep anymore - and sorry you won't sleep through the night for years to come, sorry your clothes don't fit, sorry you run out of breath standing up, sorry everything makes you vomit, sorry someone will be demanding your attention for the next twelve years (after which that same someone will want nothing to do with you).
Since women don't gather to offer condolences, they can only be coming together in giving thanks pregnancy did not visit them and in praying it continues to pass them by.
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