Her mother didn’t like the feeling of the baby moving inside her, and didn’t have a baby shower, according to Blanchard.

“We have never worried one day that this show would get in the way of our friendship, and we talked about it after Denise left,” says Stracke, who recently helped plan a baby shower for Beauvais’ 33-year-old son Oliver.

It came to mind as I read the story of 18-year-old Nevaeh Crain, who was six months pregnant and left her baby shower early to go to the ER because she was feeling so ill.

Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before.

On the morning of their baby shower, Oct.