21.   Last week Ms. Rosenthal held a baby shower at her home in the Dakota.

22.   Now as common as bibs at baby showers, the book provided common-sense answers to the questions of mothers-to-be.

23.   One day was spent traveling from New Jersey, where the Rosenbaums were building a house, to Long Island, for the baby shower of her college roommate.

24.   Recently, I attended a baby shower at which advice-giving took the place of shower games.

25.   She has typed and mailed wedding invitations and even organized baby showers to help the boss out.

26.   She says the office knew and even gave her a baby shower before she left.

27.   She received several outfits for the boys at a baby shower last year, but the children had outgrown them when the family got to Georgia.

28.   Someone may have called this party a baby shower, but it included almost none of the conventions of baby showers I had read about.

29.   Suddenly, her neighbors were talking about holding a baby shower.

30.   The baby showers were over.