50 Funny Questions to Ask Parents at Baby Shower

Is someone about to have a baby? Well, congrats!

The next step would definitely be to host a baby shower for the parents. The baby shower is mostly an opportunity for family and friends to gift the newest addition to the family.

These gifts are usually to help the mother prepare for childbirth and the baby in general. This does not mean that they can’t still gift the baby later on but it’s just a pre-gift ceremony.

Nevertheless, the shower is not usually boring so there are games, music, dancing, and even funny questions that will make everyone laugh. If you were appointed as the anchor of the event, what funny questions could you ask the parents of the baby to get everyone excited and interested?

We’ve done the brainstorming for you, all you need to do is pick your best questions from the fifty (50) that have been compiled in this article.

50 Funny Questions to Ask Parents at Baby Shower

1. Who has been laden with the responsibility of picking the baby’s name? Do you guys have so many names that you’re confused about the best name to give your child? (Choosing a baby’s name can be sentimental for some couples so this is a hilarious way to find out how it is for that particular couple.)
2.  Who is going to be responsible for spoiling the baby the most? Do you think the toughest one of you is the one most likely to be the softest with the baby? (Most times, the one who pretends to be the toughest or the disciplinarian is usually the soft-hearted one.)
3. What would you like your baby’s first word to be – mama or dada? If your baby calls your other partner first, will you be healthily jealous? (This has been an issue of friendly contention between parents on what the baby’s first word will be – mama or dada?
4. Who do you want your baby to take after? Do you want your partner to take after your partner completely or have a little bit of both of you? (Sometimes couples admire certain features in their partners and wish for their child to have it.)
5. Do you think it is possible for any of your parents to reincarnate through your baby? Do you have a parent or grandparent that you really miss and wish they could come back to you through your child? (Most people believe in reincarnation, so when their baby starts exhibiting certain characteristics, they’ll claim that it is the reincarnation of someone already dead.)
6. Who was more troublesome as a baby between the both of you? Do you think that if the baby took after the troublesome, they would be left with the responsibility of taking care of the baby? (
7. What names have you decided to go with? Do you think your baby would have a problem with the name you give to him/her cause the name is weird? (This is a hilarious way to find out  if the couple has finally settled on a name to give their baby.)
8. What is the best baby shower game you would love to play? If you’re confident that you will win, do you want a price to be attached to the game? (Before the baby shower, the couple may have had some games lined up that they would love to play and this is the best way to find that out.)
9. What would you do if you had the color blue during your gender reveal party but later gave birth to a girl? Do you think you would be disappointed or will you be too overwhelmed to even bother? (Sometimes, the scan makes mistakes about the sex of the child and this is the best way to know how the parents would feel about that if it happened to them.)
10. When is your wife’s due date and what would you do if the baby overstays? Do you think you would panic if the baby does not come at the time that it’s supposed to? Have you ever panicked over something so trivial that you swore the doctor would have rolled his eyes if he hadn’t been so professional? (For some couples, when the baby is coming, the man starts to panic cause he doesn’t know what to do. This is how to discover how panicky the man would be if his wife entered into labor.)
11. Between doing the housework and caring for the baby, what would you rather do? Which do you think will be much easier, and would you ever admit if the one you chose gets hard? (Most people assume that it is easy to take care of a baby but while they are cute, it’s quite harder than it looks.)
12. Whose hobby will it be to dress up the baby? Do you think you will enjoy all the process of dressing the baby up including putting on the pampers and struggling with them? (Some parents love to play dress up – one partner usually loves it more than the other – and this question, is the best way to find out.)
13. Who, amongst you two, is more excited about this baby shower? Who insisted that the baby shower will be held and who was nonchalant about the whole thing? (Either a couple loves to host parties as a unit or one loves to do that while the other doesn’t. Using the baby shower as a reference, you can use this question to find out who loves hosting parties and who does not.)
14. Who would the baby prefer to hear lullabies from? Whose voice do you think that if the baby hears, he/she will cry for the person to shut up? (A couple may be a great singer while their partner has a croaked voice which makes this question the perfectly funny one.)
15. Who do you think this child will take after? Since it’s your first/second/third child, do you think he/she will take after your spouse? (The way children take after each spouse is quite unique, and sometimes it is the person’s whose gene is stronger that the children take after.)
16. Do you think changing diapers will be an issue for you two? Who do you think will be better at changing diapers and putting the baby to sleep? (Changing of diapers is usually tricky and sometimes disgusting
17. Do you think because you love to read that your baby will be a reader? Will you read your baby every night and constantly buy them books till they have a little personal library of their own? (Most parents love to pass on their hobbies to their children and reading is a great hobby, so why not?)
18. Are you choosing a religion for your baby or you will leave that to him/her/them? As Christians/Muslims/Jews/Buddhists, do you think that you would choose your baby’s religion for them? (Some parents don’t like to impose a religion on their children even if they practice one.)
19. How did you reach the perfect name(s) for your baby? Most expecting parents are sometimes confused about the best names for their baby so what advice would you give them on naming their kid? (Giving a baby the name they consider perfect for her can be quite tricky cause there may be many of them and that could leave the parents confused.)
20. When do you think you’ll regret having a baby? Do you think the stress of having a baby will get to you and you will almost regret having one till you don’t? (The idea of ‘regretting’ having a baby is a joke where parents get so overwhelmed that they wish they didn’t have a baby.)
21. Do you think your child will be obsessed with coco melon or your favorite nursery rhyme? We see on the internet that kids react happily to Gracie’s Corner, cocomelon, and other popular animations, do you think your kid will be any different?
22. How did you creatively break to your partner that you guys were having a baby? When you found out that you were pregnant, how did you tell your partner and what was his reaction?
23. Can you change diapers blindfolded or do we need to call 911 for babies? Being a parent means being able to change your baby’s diapers at the most inconvenient places and time, will you be able to do that?
24. Have you read books or done research on what to expect while expecting? Are you prepared or do you think you’ll figure it out as you go on?
25. What would you never do no matter how much you love your baby? There are things that some parents are doing out of love for their baby that you’ve told yourself you would never do, what are those?
26. What myth about pregnancy scared you the most, but you realized was not true? A lot of people have shared their experiences of a scary incident they had while pregnant, when did you find out that some of them were not true?
27. Do you think your baby will be a foodie like its father? Do you want your baby to love food like your husband does or do you wish for him to be like you?
28. How long did it take for your wife to convince you to host a baby shower? What did she promise or threaten you with to make you finally agree to the baby shower?
29. What do you think you would never do no matter how painful the contraction is? For instance, are you a firm believer in no CS because you believe solely in vagina birth?
30. Do you think you are fully prepared for the stress that comes with having a new baby? Many people think they are ready to be parents and see only the sweet part of having a baby online but are never prepared for the real stress.
31. How many people have advised you on what you should do during and after pregnancy? Which one do you think makes sense and which ones do you call bullshit? This is because people are always so obsessed with giving first-time parents unsolicited advice.
32. Who’s choosing the color of the baby’s room and who’s in charge of the overall decoration? Are you guys choosing a neutral color since you don’t know the sex of the baby or will you find out the sex of the baby before you paint the room?
33. Where would you like to go for your first vacation as a three-unit family? Which part of the world have you always wished to take your first child to if you could afford it?
34. Tell us, which celebrity’s baby have you been studying their journey to know how to handle yours? When you get freaked out about the thought of becoming a parent whose celebrity kid do you watch to have an idea of what to do?
35. Do you think it will be tricky to balance work and parenting or will you be able to cope? Have you guys figured out whether you will both work or will one person work while the other stays at home?
36. Are you still open to more advice from the people present in this baby shower? I’m sure you’ve received so many parenting tips from both online, and offline, happy and absent parents, do you think you’ll open the floor for people to give you baby tips during this shower?
37. What are the top 10 unisex names you intend to give your baby regardless of gender? If those names are rare, would you want to hide them for just your babies instead?
38. To the father: Either you say the baby’s due date or you drop a thousand dollars. (The trick behind this question is that fathers are not usually attentive to such things.)
39. To the mother: Either you drop a thousand boxes or you relinquish your rights to name the baby. (Mothers are not as generous as fathers when it comes to releasing money.)
40. Babies are not really easy to take care of, so who do you think will likely be more patient to deal with their cries and tantrums? If your baby turns out to be a velcro baby, who is more likely to patiently rock her to sleep?
41. Who wants more kids between you two and is the other willing to compromise? How many kids did you guys originally want and who wanted more than that?
42. Between the both of you, who will teach the baby sports and who will prefer to take him/her shopping, who do you think will prevail? How early do you want to start incorporating the baby into fitness and lifestyle or will you just settle for pizza while watching Cocomelon?
43. Whose shape of the head do you want the baby to take after? (That is, if you are considering how easy you want the pushing to be. This question will be hilarious if the father’s head shape is something to laugh about.)
44. Who is likely to be the disciplinarian amongst the two of you? Who do you think will be the no-nonsense parent between you two?
45. Who claimed that they would never drive a minivan but is now asking for the price of one? Are there some things you thought you would never buy or use but now that you’re about to have a child, you are rethinking it?
46. Who is more likely to take pictures and make videos of the baby at every turn? Who amongst the both of you will be more willing to show off your baby to everyone?
47. Who will likely read to the baby the most and tuck them in bed mostly?
48. Who will panic the most and have the pediatrician at speed dial for even the minutest thing?
49. Who will be the go-to parent for fun activities? Who is the fun partner between you two and who will the children gravitate to when they want to enjoy and play games?
50. Which parent will be easygoing and more approachable when it comes to difficult conversations? Are there conversations that you think you may not be able to have with your children that you will prefer to leave to your spouse?
51.  Who has been planning family vacations way before the baby was conceived? Between the both of you, who builds castles in the air i.e. who imagines stuff a lot and plans ahead to stay organized?

Conclusively

Now that you have fifty (50) funny questions you can ask parents at baby showers, it’s time to get that party started.

To make the party more fun, you should write down these questions in rectangular papers and ask the parents to take turns picking each question. If not the parents, the guests could take turns picking the questions and asking the parents.

Aside from the questions in this article, I’m sure there are more exciting questions that the guests would love to ask the parents. So, you can ask them to write it down anonymously while you ask the questions.