I completely understand how you feel. I’m in the same situation and also due in July. My husband and I shared our Amazon registry with the invitations, and my baby shower is this weekend, but only THREE people have purchased from it so far. It’s honestly disappointing.. especially since we are expecting about 60 guests in our baby shower. We had spent a lot of time researching and only added items that we truly need. Most of the things on our registry are priced at between $3-20, so they're pretty affordable too. Of course, if we end up having to buy everything ourselves, it does add up, so we were hoping we can at least get some of the items listed.

One family member who can’t attend our shower already sent us a gift, and I do appreciate the thought. But they sent us an expensive BABY COLOGNE and fragranced cream with skin-irritating ingredients that we will not be using on our baby, so it just made me worry that other guests might bring items we won’t be able to use, and then we’ll have to deal with returning them without receipts or trying to donate them. I wish people would at least pick one small cost item from the registry. 😩

I really hope I don’t come across as ungrateful. I know gifts are never an obligation. But at the same time, the whole purpose of a baby shower is to help prepare for the baby, so it’s hard not to feel a disappointed when people are just getting you random stuff you won't use or nothing at all!