Baby showers allow expectant mothers to gather emotional support, benefit from monetary gifts, and enlist aid in constructing baby’s first helicopter. Help new life take flight with today's Groupon: for $249, you get a catered baby shower event at Beauty & the Bistro Café & Catering (a $500 value).

Beauty & the Bistro Café & Catering's uniformed staff add friendly elbow grease to their catered social and corporate events. Expectant mothers round up posses of up to 30 guests for a two-hour takeover of the bistro's party room, where a sign-in and gift table greet guests and assign code names written in baby talk. Load up on human fuel from a buffet spread, filling antique china, glasses, and silverware with comestibles including seasonal fruits, parmesan pasta salad, and sliced croissant sandwiches stuffed with generous portions of chicken salad. As light dinner music plays over excited conversations and debates on the origin of the rattle, the staff quiets wailing sweet teeth with slices of guest-provided cake.