Thank You Notes for Baby Shower

[ZipTheWonder]

You were the guest of honor, so...you get to thank those who honored you.  Your husband can write a few words in addition -- but not instead.

[Lisbeth]

Just out of interest - how the heck do people knpw who wrote the note???

Stuff I write tends to look more "masculine" than stuff my DH writes.  He has very nice printing and I don't - I'm very ambidextrous and it is unclear if I should have been taught to write with my left hand. 

So I have no idea how people would know that DH wrote things.  I dictated and he wrote all our wedding TY notes.  If I'd written them they would have been illegible after the first couple. 

The point is not who writes them but whose names are in the signature.
Since the OP's husband wasn't at the shower, then he shouldn't sign the notes.

[ZipTheWonder]

I am floored at the idea that anyone would be offended to receive....

Decent people are never offended by other people's social faux pas -- instead, they gracefully overlook them. 

But, that doesn't change the fact that the OP asked for advice about how to avoid the faux pas in the first place.  The correct thing to do is for the guest-of-honor to write the notes and sign her name.  If her husband wants to participate, she could mention that her husband loved the Yankee's baseball outfit, or he could send a separate note.

[ShadesOfGrey]

Decent people are never offended by other people's social faux pas -- instead, they gracefully overlook them. 

But, that doesn't change the fact that the OP asked for advice about how to avoid the faux pas in the first place.  The correct thing to do is for the guest-of-honor to write the notes and sign her name.  If her husband wants to participate, she could mention that her husband loved the Yankee's baseball outfit, or he could send a separate note.

I understand this, but what if the gift was addressed to both the mother and the father? Wouldnt it be bad form for him not to participate in the Thank-you's? I would think it is similar to a Christmas gift addressed to both parties, but where only one attended the gathering where it was given...

on the father/grandparents joining the shower, perhaps it is also a generational thing...