When I was pregnant with Mira, Abe's cousin asked him what he was getting me for my delivery gift. As in, I just gave birth and therefore my husband gives me a gift. I was pretty shocked since I'd never heard of a delivery gift (or maybe it has some other fancy name). Needless to say, we decided that a new baby was gift enough for us and he didn't need to "get" me anything else. I've never been a great gift receiver because I always feel like I don't deserve material "things". Even as a child when my mom would take me clothes shopping for the school year, I felt guilty for all that she had bought me because I knew others weren't so lucky (or blessed). Don't get me wrong, I LOVED having new clothes (and still do!), but there was always guilt involved. While I don't feel guilty for getting new things now, I still ponder how others don't have as much as I do. And, of course, I still long for new things....new shoes, new phone (in my current condition of being phonless since a nice one-year-old I know put mine in a cup of water), new clothes, house cleaner (as in a person to clean my house since after vacuuming and mopping yesterday I had to lay down for a few hours to stop the contractions racking my uterus), a massage...the list could go on. But then I remember that I am very very rich compared to the rest of the world, and that suffices for the need for new things.
Do you get a "delivery gift" after you have a baby?? Have you ever heard of such a thing??
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I've never heard of a delivery gift, but I figure with the trauma that a hoo-hah goes through, every mother deserves a gift, if not a parade. :)
Ok...no never heard of a delivery gift. After our first tho, I always took a big brother present for (each of) the older sibling(s) so that when they came to the hospital to see their newest brother they had a special present to take home.
And after the Emergency c-section scary delivery with Corban...Denis bought me a necklace and while I was in the hospital Titus bought me my first digital camera...so I did get "gifts" but it wasn't a pre-planned thing.
I have heard of it called a "Push Present" haha! Some people I know (or have read about on blogs) have received new cameras (so they can take pics of the baby growing up or whatever), an ipad, or like little necklaces or bracelets with the babies birthstone. I think it shouldn't be expected but how sweet for a husband to thank his wife for getting huge and pushing something the size of a bowling ball out of them so they could BOTH have a baby :)
I've heard of them, but we didn't do that for either of the other two. Doubt this one will be different. But Johnny does do cool things for Mother's Day when there's a new baby to celebrate...like getting me a ring or charm from James Avery that I picked out beforehand (and ever so slyly forced him to see)! :)
Yes I have heard of a "Push" present. I got one for Case, a new computer, but nothing for Cole, money was more tight. I think it typically it is supposed to be something to commerate the birth of your child like jewlery with their birth stone in it. I did get a bracelet with all of the families birth stones in it from my mother for after Coles birth.
Gina - I was told "push present" from a friend of ours at the time I was pregnant with Audrey. She told Adam that I was to get diamonds. I had the same thoughts - WHAT!?! I was receiving the best gift I could ever receive - my daughter. I also knew that if my husband spent a lot of money on a gift I was going to kill him since the expense of a baby was going to be enough.
You are not alone on the feeling guilty when getting new things. I still have clothes that I wear that I bought when I was 19. I know that there are other things that I could do with the money.
Never gotten anything but I would not be opposed!!!
never heard of it, but wouldn't say no.
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