to think that a "bib, a dieting book for his wife and a small oak tree" is not an appropriate baby gift for new daddy Sarkozy...

[MmeLindor.]

Not a fan of Carla Bruni, but my jaw just DROPPED when I read that here.

FFS. She only just gave birth yesterday.

[LeNameChange]

Er, they probably just thought it was funny. Carla is notoriously crazy about her figure (as are many men, so I hear).

[QueenofJacksDreams]

A lot of Pagans/Wiccans belive that if you plant a tree for your baby when its born then as the tree grows strong and healthy so will the baby.

[pinkytheshrunkenhead]

And apparently they have called her Dahlia/Dalia? not sure

Carla can get back to the fags now anyway

[upahill]

It's more than I got!!!!

[SinicalSal]

Diet Book!
Maybe ordinarily Carla goes crazy for diet books. It's probable. But she'll probably be pretty emotional and hormonal right now, a diet book would be even MORE insensitive now.

FFS do your duty woman, if ever I saw it

[MmeLindor.]

The oak tree is a great present.

The bib is a bit meh. Unless it says "Mademoiselle President" or something.

But a diet book?

[coastgirl]

Come on, she's French, a model...I don't think it would be received in the same way it would here.

[SinicalSal]

She's just had a baby ffs, give her a week or two to get her strength up - then start policing her, if you must.

[porcamiseria]

ah the french, gotta love em

[Angel786]

Diet book?

[frutilla]

It could be a mis-translation. Maybe it's a book about diet and weaning for babies. Or about the healthiest diet for a b/feeding mum.

[coastgirl]

Looking at the French press, it's this book.

[diddl]

Husband & I both had to make do with the baby

[MmeLindor.]

Ha. Diddl, think you got a good deal.

That book is a diet book dressed up as a non-diet book.

[coastgirl]

It is entirely French though - French women's magazines are obsessed with food, nutrition and dieting in a way British magazines could only dream of.

[MissPenteuth]

They should have called her Cardigan. Or Blanket.

[catgirl1976]

I did read once that French women are discouraged from BF as it can make the breasts saggy and are given pelvic muscle tightening-thingies as a matter of course after birth "for the husband" and are expected to drop baby weight almost immediatley. I can't remember where I read this though so it could be complete tosh (and to be fair it did sound like it)

Poor Carla!

[LydiaWickham]

yes, let's focus on the fact that people gave him gifts that he may or maynot pass on to his wife, not that he arrived several hours after the birth. Several hours? One thing not picking him to be her birth partner (I can't imagine he'd be all that supportive) but to not at least be hovering around to see the baby ASAP? That's just plain odd.

[MmeLindor.]

Yes, Lydia. I wondered about that too.

You would think that he would want to actually spend some time with his wife and their new baby.

[limitedperiodonly]

They should call her Shrug.

She is half French after all.

[picnicbasketcase]

My DP brought a crossword book to the hospital the day after DS was born. I had had literally no sleep at all due to other people's babies crying all night and insisted on going home that day, had no intention of staying a minute longer. I could've flung the sodding book at him. All I wanted to do was go home, not hang around any longer doing fecking puzzles. If something intended to be kind made me that cross, god knows what I would've done if he'd brought a diet book. Stuck it down his neck probably.