Welcoming a baby into the world is a beautiful thing. The women (and men!) you invite to your baby shower will help you when you’re in need and cheer you on as you celebrate the wins of early motherhood.
By joining you to lick chocolate out of diapers and play “don’t say baby,” these people are showing you that they are your tribe.
They’re proving that they’ll be by your side as you embark on your parenting journey.
Whatever gifts they may give you, the biggest gift of all is their friendship and support.
Make sure that when you write the women and men in your life thank you cards after your baby shower, you aren’t just thanking them for the onesies they bought.
You also have to thank them for the quality of their friendship.
If you’re wondering what to say, you can draw inspiration from this list of sample baby shower thank you notes.
Whether you are welcoming baby number one or two, or you already have a whole ratpack at home, you will be busy in the days before you give birth.
There will be no shortage of things to do. From adding the final touches to your nursery to putting up baby gates in your house…you won’t be bored.
That said, no matter how busy you feel, it is always important to send your friends thank you cards for coming to your shower.
The general formula for writing a thank you card after a baby shower involves a combination of the following:
- thank your friend for the gift they gave you
- specifically talk about why you like their gift
- thank them for making the time to come to your shower
- mention a highlight of the party that involves them
- express how much you value them and their support generally
- tell them you can’t wait for them to meet your baby
You won’t be able to do all of these in every baby shower thank you card, so aim to include at least two or three of these points.
If you’re wondering what this might look like in practice and what would be appropriate to say, read on. Here are 21 excellent examples of baby shower thank you card inscriptions:
1. Thank you for the beautiful present and for coming to my baby shower. It would not have been half as much fun without you!
Some people throw huge baby showers and invite everyone in their social circle.
Especially now that it has become more common for women or couples to invite their male friends to this traditionally all-female event, the guest lists can end up quite long.
If you threw a mega-bash to mark the beginning of your journey as a new mother, you won’t be that close to everyone who came.
This is a generic card inscription that would work well for almost anyone in your wider circle of friends. Feel free to make it a little more personal by mentioning the gift in greater detail.
2. Thank you for the lovely swaddling blankets, for your support throughout my pregnancy, and for joining me at my baby shower on Sunday. You are such a good friend, and I don’t know what I did to deserve you.
If one of your friends has been your go-to person for questions and concerns throughout your pregnancy, you can thank them specifically for their time and advice.
We often don’t get a chance to formally thank the people in our lives who do the most to support us.
Maybe your friend knows how to cheer someone up over text and has been lifting you up whenever you doubt your ability to be a parent. Or maybe they have just been checking in regularly to ask, “how’s your day?” and see how your pregnancy is progressing.
Whatever way they have chosen to show you support; you can show your gratitude for their care by expressing it in a written card after your baby shower.
3. I’m so glad you were able to attend my shower! Thank you for the adorable pajamas. I had a blast, and I can’t wait to have you all over again soon to meet baby Juniper.
If you’re only getting around to writing your thank you cards after your child has been born, don’t worry!
Everyone knows how stressful it is to have a newborn baby.
Plus, being able to include your baby’s name and gender in the card if you were keeping these a secret, is a nice touch.
When sending a post-partum thank you, say how much fun the shower was and then say how much you’re looking forward to introducing your friend to your baby.
4. Dear future godmother, thank you for everything you did to help me organize my shower and for agreeing to play such an important role in my baby’s life. I couldn’t have asked for a better godparent for my little girl, and I can’t wait for you to meet her.
The role of godmother in a child’s life is a very special one, and being a godparent is a great honor.
However, it is also a lot of work.
How you ask your friend to be your kid’s godmother, and how you thank them for all the time they put into the role, matters a lot.
Go the extra mile and do something like make a scrapbook for your best friend when you ask them to step into this important role.
This will let them know how seriously you take your request and their commitment.
Then, when you’re writing a thank you card to them for coming to (or helping organize) your shower, thank them for agreeing to be your child’s godmother.
5. You really shouldn’t have! What an incredible gift! Thank you so much for your generosity and thank you for making my baby shower so special by coming.
If a friend of yours goes above and beyond with their baby shower gift, make sure you express how much you appreciate the big gesture.
Having a child is no small thing, and your friend has probably given you an expensive gift as a sign of how much she loves you and a mark of how important this moment is.
That said, when someone gives you a generous gift, make sure to communicate that you are grateful to them for more than just what they have given you.
Express your gratitude to them for making your shower so special by being there.
This will send the message that while you are grateful for what they have bought you, what you value most is their time.
6. The memories from my baby shower will stay with me for a lifetime. Thank you for being part of my special day.
Tell your friends that the memories from the shower they came to are memories you will cherish forever.
This will make them feel that the effort they went to be there for you wasn’t wasted, and that you sincerely value what they do for you.
This works both as a message for a very close friend or as a generic card inscription for an acquaintance.
7. My favorite part of the baby shower was laughing and catching up with you!
Want to be extra cute when you send out your baby shower thank you cards? Why not have a polaroid camera at your shower and then write notes on the polaroid pictures?
You can insert a picture of you with each friend into the card you write them.
This message, for example, which is about laughing and catching up with your friend, would work well in a card or on the bottom of a polaroid of the two of you.
Telling a friend that your favorite part of your shower was spending time with them will make them feel special.
8. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to thank you enough for the help you’ve given me during this exciting time. I loved having you by my side at my shower!
It is customary to send thank you cards after baby showers as a way of showing gratitude that people attended your party and gave you a gift.
They offer a great opportunity to thank your friends for the other things they helped you with in the lead up to your birth.
Maybe they brought you food when you didn’t feel up to cooking or answered your questions about labor or helped you move when you couldn’t lift boxes.
Whichever way they’ve chosen to show their support, make sure their time doesn’t go unappreciated. The thank you card you send after your baby shower is a great place to express your gratitude.
9. Thanks for joining me at my shower and for all your help getting me ready to welcome my first baby. Your friendship means the world to me.
When you are giving birth to your first child, every step along the way is a major milestone. This includes your baby shower.
Thank everyone who came to your shower by telling them their friendship is invaluable to you.
This lets them know that you’ll never forget the fact that they made the effort to show up for you at this pivotal point in your life.
Hopefully it will also tinge their memories of the event with an extra positive light.
10. I am so glad that my baby girl will have such a strong, independent woman like you in her life to look up to. Thanks for coming to help me celebrate the beginning of my motherhood.
If are having a girl, you might want to use your baby shower thank you cards to celebrate the girl power present at your party.
Do this by telling your female friends how grateful you are to be bringing your daughter into a world in which she will have such wonderful role models.
11. I can’t wait to welcome your newest granddaughter. Thank you so much for coming to my shower on Saturday and thank you for being the best mother-in-law and grandmother to my baby I could ever ask for.
If you have a good relationship with your mother-in-law, you’re lucky.
Let’s just say that snake plants (a sharp and not particularly pretty houseplant) aren’t called mother-in-law’s tongues for nothing.
Many people struggle to connect with their significant other’s parents.
You might be genuinely grateful that your future child’s grandmother could make it to your baby shower.
But even if you are adopting a fake it till you make approach, this message is a perfect way to keep the peace.
12. Thank you for making the journey all the way across the country to come to my baby shower and thank you for the adorable teddy bear.
When you live far away from some of your closest friends, you have to accept the fact that you won’t be seeing as much of each other as you might like to.
On the other hand, it also means that when one of you makes the effort to go out of their way to come see the other, it means a lot.
Thanking your long-distance friend for making the trip to see you lets them know you don’t take the sacrifices they made to fit the travel in for granted.
If you want to add a bit of humor to this card message, you could add the sentence “Hopefully the next time we see each other isn’t when we are reading a message on a graduation cake for this baby.”
13. Thank you so much for your thoughtful card and kind present. The shower was so much fun, and I am so grateful to you for joining me in celebrating my first pregnancy.
This is a more formal message for a baby shower thank you card than some of the other suggestions in this list.
Did you invite a few people to your shower out of courtesy (for example, your partner’s friends’ girlfriends)?
If so, you might be worried about having to write them a card. After all, what do you write to someone that you normally just say “Hi” to and not much more.
When it feels difficult to find the words to send this kind of baby shower guest, this message makes a fail-proof baby shower thank you card.
14. Thank you for all your well wishes and advice, and for the wonderful baby books.
If one of your friends spent a lot of your baby shower giving you tips and getting you excited for your upcoming birth, you can thank them for their good wishes and advice.
Mention the gift they gave you too so that they don’t think you’ve forgotten it.
When someone gives you books, it is important to compliment them. People put a lot of effort into how to choose the just-right books for a child. Expressing how much you like their choices is important.
15. You are such a gem! I can’t believe you got me such a generous gift. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all your love and support.
Calling your friend a gem is a great thank you card opener.
Nothing makes us want to read on more than when someone addresses us with a cute nickname or term of endearment.
Mention how appreciative you are that they showed up for you and that they put so much effort into getting you the perfect gift.
16. Thanks for coming to my shower and for sharing your words of mothering wisdom.
If you are the last of your group of friends to have children, you’re lucky!
You don’t have to go it alone. When you’re stuck in a pinch and aren’t sure whether something is normal or not, you can turn to the other mothers in your life.
Specifically expressing how lucky you feel to have the friends you do in a thank you card will warm your shower guests’ hearts.
17. Your taste is perfect. Thanks for the lovely gift and for coming to our little party to celebrate the impending arrival of baby number two.
Referring to your shower as a party to celebrate the impending arrival of a baby is a funny way to express your anxiety about newborn care as a stressed-out parent.
Any friend who shares your sense of humor will get a good chuckle out of it.
18. Thank you for the beautiful present. I can’t wait to see it on baby James.
You might have given birth by the time you send out thank you cards for shower gifts. Or you might just be comfortable sharing your baby’s name in advance of its arrival.
Either way, if you are ready to say your baby’s name and you received an item of clothing as a gift at your shower, say thanks by saying you can’t wait to see it on [your baby’s name].
19. My baby is so lucky to be blessed with such a wonderful Aunt. Thank you for coming to our baby shower, and for always reminding me to stay positive.
Any future aunts or uncles present at your shower? Make sure you tell them how lucky your baby is to have them!
Our aunts and uncles can have a big influence on us.
But that is only true when they make the effort to be an important presence in our life and give us guidance.
If your sibling(s) or your partner’s sibling(s) show up to your shower with enthusiasm and demonstrate a real willingness to be involved, you’ve basically won the lottery.
For one thing, you’re pretty much guaranteed to get perks like free babysitting.
But more importantly, having excited and caring aunts and uncles in your child’s life means they’ll grow up with reliable adults around them.
This will surely lead them to develop good values.
20. Thanks a million for the important part you’ve played in my pregnancy. I am so grateful that you could come to my baby shower on Saturday. Thank you also for the thoughtful gift.
Have you had to tackle your pregnancy without a partner because you chose single parenthood through pregnancy?
Or have you just needed an extra bit of support even though you’re coupled up?
Whatever the answer, thank the friends who showed up for you when you write baby shower thank you cards.
21. Your parenting advice has been a complete lifesaver. You always know exactly what to say to calm me down. I loved having you at my baby shower and wanted to thank you for making the effort to come all the way out.
No matter how many anniversary cards for friends you have written, you may still struggle to express your emotions in writing when it comes to the big things.
You might be worrying that your message will either sound too formal, as though you are writing a note on a donation brick, or too insincere.
First of all, don’t be so worried. Your friend knows how much you care about them, and they won’t be nitpicky about wording.
Secondly, just try to write from the heart. If you just say what you feel, there’s no way you can go wrong.
21 great things to write in a thank you card for a baby shower
- Thank you for the beautiful present and for coming to my baby shower. It would not have been half as much fun without you!
- Thank you for the lovely swaddling blankets, for your support throughout my pregnancy, and for joining me at my baby shower on Sunday. You are such a good friend, and I don’t know what I did to deserve you.
- I’m so glad you were able to attend my shower! Thank you for the adorable pajamas. I had a blast, and I can’t wait to have you all over again soon to meet baby Juniper.
- Dear future godmother, thank you for everything you did to help me organize my shower and for agreeing to play such an important role in my baby’s life. I couldn’t have asked for a better godparent for my little girl, and I can’t wait for you to meet her.
- You really shouldn’t have! What an incredible gift! Thank you so much for your generosity and thank you for making my baby shower so special by coming.
- The memories from my baby shower will stay with me for a lifetime. Thank you for being part of my special day.
- My favorite part of the baby shower was laughing and catching up with you!
- I don’t think I’ll ever be able to thank you enough for the help you’ve given me during this exciting time. I loved having you by my side at my shower!
- Thanks for joining me at my shower and for all your help getting me ready to welcome my first baby. Your friendship means the world to me.
- I am so glad that my baby girl will have such a strong, independent woman like you in her life to look up to. Thanks for coming to help me celebrate the beginning of my motherhood.
- I can’t wait to welcome your newest granddaughter. Thank you so much for coming to my shower on Saturday and thank you for being the best mother-in-law and grandmother to my baby I could ever ask for.
- Thank you for making the journey all the way across the country to come to my baby shower and thank you for the adorable teddy bear.
- Thank you so much for your thoughtful card and kind present. The shower was so much fun, and I am so grateful to you for joining me in celebrating my first pregnancy.
- Thank you for all your well wishes and advice, and for the wonderful baby books.
- You are such a gem! I can’t believe you got me such a generous gift. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all your love and support.
- Thanks for coming to my shower and for sharing your words of mothering wisdom.
- Your taste is perfect. Thanks for the lovely gift and for coming to our little party to celebrate the impending arrival of baby number two.
- Thank you for the beautiful present. I can’t wait to see it on baby James.
- My baby is so lucky to be blessed with such a wonderful Aunt. Thank you for coming to our baby shower and for always reminding me to stay positive.
- Thanks a million for the important part you’ve played in my pregnancy. I am so grateful that you could come to my baby shower on Saturday. Thank you also for the thoughtful gift.
- Your parenting advice has been a complete lifesaver. You always know exactly what to say to calm me down. I loved having you at my baby shower and wanted to thank you for making the effort to come all the way out.