A Beautiful Personalized Song for Your Baby Shower

You are writing about someone nobody has met. No stories yet, no personality, no first word. Just a due date, a name they may or may not have settled on, and a room full of people about to eat cake.

That is less of a problem than it sounds, because a baby shower song is not really about the baby. It is about the waiting. Here is what you can actually use: the name if it is public, or the nickname the bump picked up, which is often better. Peanut. Little Bear. Whatever the older sibling started calling it. The nursery they painted twice because the first color looked wrong in daylight. How long they tried. Who the baby is named after. The hospital bag that has been sitting by the door since week 34.

Remember this one gets played out loud. It is not opened quietly in a corner with tissues nearby. It goes on somebody's speaker in a living room with a grandmother present and a toddler running past. Warm and a little funny beats heavy. Nobody wants to cry over the diaper cake.

If naming a baby who is not born yet makes you nervous, use the nickname and we write it so it still works after the birth, or leave the name out entirely and write it to the parents.

You get an original studio-quality song written from your details, $19.99, delivered by email within 24 hours, which works even if you remembered the shower two days out.

Text the parents one question: what are you calling the bump right now? That answer is usually the whole hook.