Rings for the birth of your children.

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I didn't buy one for my first son but I'm due my second early May and would like to have made two blue sapphire eternity rings to have a piece of jewellery that represents my eternal and unconditional love for my sons.

I was going to place them on the same finger as my wedding and engagement ring, so basically wedding band, engagement ring and then the rings for the two boys.

Husband doesn't seem to understand why I would want them on the same finger. Is he right? Should I choose a different finger? I don't know what's "protocol", I'm not from the UK and where I'm from, we usually take off the engagement ring.

Just to add, I don't wear any other rings and minimal jewellery.

I like the look of stacked rings. Most people wear their eternity band on same finger as wedding and engagement rings. It’s unusual to have two eternity rings, though! Will they be very slim?

@Annebronte yes, they're all very very slim, quite unusually slim but he asked me years ago what I liked and I showed him and he got exactly that.

I wouldn't be able to bend my finger if I were wearing so many rings. But wear what suits you - doesn't matter what other people think.

I have rings with my 2 DDs birthstones and engraved with their names that I wear on my ring finger on my right hand. They wouldn’t fit (aesthetically or physically) with my wedding and engagement rings on my left hand.

I don’t think there’s a protocol so do what works for you. I think it’s a lovely idea.

That sounds like a lovely idea!

Lovely idea! I have very thin wedding band and my engagement ring stone isn’t small but the band is thin so I’ve got an eternity ring set with the birthstones of my 3 dc that I wear with them. Doesn’t reach my knuckle with all 3 on

Sounds lovely. I'd definitely go for it.

I had a ring when my son was born and I wear it with my wedding and engagement ring. I did it because they looked nice together!

This is such a lovely idea!

Am I too late now if they’re preteens?

I got an eternity ring after our son was born, he's our only child. I wear it on the same finger as engagement and wedding rings.

I had a Pandora ring with the birthstone colour in a gorgeous nude rose in my dd case, but it's gone missing 😢

My mother in law got rubies for baby 1, sapphires for baby 2 and emeralds for baby 3. When she died the wives of all three sons inherited the rings, earrings and necklaces. It is such a special thing. My DH didn't follow in his father's excellent footsteps sadly...

I got an eternity ring after the birth of my DD but I wear it on my right ring finger as the style and metal wouldn't fit with my bespoke engagement and wedding rings. At some point when we've more money for frivolities I'll have an eternity ring made to fit my wedding and engagement ring and wear all three on the same finger.

@Vodkabulary similar to mine, the diamond is quite big but the ring in itself is small. Sounds quite similar to mine! I'll check out their birth stones as that might work well for us too. January and May baby.

@Peterpainter never too late!

@INeedtobealone that sounds lovely!

@lollipoprainbow you could replace it and see if they still do the same one?

@Bogoroditse that's so nice, I have a wonderful husband but he'd never think of anything like that and I'm happy to do this for myself ✨

DH bought me an eternity ring when DS was born, we weren't married at the time, just engaged, but I wore it with my engagement ring, and then wedding ring when we tied the knot. I'm widowed now but still wear the eternity ring on my wedding ring finger (only don't wear the wedding ring because it's too loose)

Yes, I don't wear them all the time but when I do I wear them in the order you've described

Wear whatever you would like. I think stacked rings look great but if you are getting them to represent your sons, would it not make more sense to get there birthstones rather than sapphires ( I do love sapphires though they are my birthstone).

I have just one DS, but have the set up of wedding band, engagement ring and then eternity ring. The engagement ring is on a very thin band, with the diamond set up high in the claw. The set of three stacked looks just right (actually, it looked a bit odd before with just 2). I love stacking too, and with thin rings, you can do it.

What style of ring are you going with?

I'm just being nosey. I would like a ring with my two DCs birthstones - one big(ish) centre stone (DDs birthstone) surrounded by lots of little ones (DS birthstone). Very boring really!

Our situation was different because we didn’t buy any of our rings. The reason being my 3 rings are all heirlooms from my family (wedding ring was my great nans, eternity ring was my nans and engagement ring was my mums). I was more than happy to have all 3.
We had a 3 month engagement and planned the wedding within 2 months. Got engaged 13th January 2015, set the date mid February 2015 and got married 9th April 2015.
I already had my Nan’s ring because I’d had it for years and wore it on my right hand. I was a student and went home for Christmas. My then parter and I had discussed marriage and both agreed we wanted to, but we weren’t actually engaged yet. My mum knew we wanted to get married and so she gave me her ring to take back home and give it to my then partner, so he had it ready for when he was ready to propose. (He wouldn’t propose without a ring and we also had a baby on the way. We all knew he couldn’t afford what he wanted to give me, and all I wanted was to be engaged and married before I was showing and the baby was born. We didn’t do it just because I was pregnant, it was already as good as decided, and it meant a lot to us both to be married before the baby was born). When I went dress shopping mid February, as soon as the date was set, my family came to go with me and I was given my great nans ring then.
From our wedding day I wore all 3 because I love the look of them all together and in ‘order’ so to speak. And I know eternity rings are usually for 1st anniversary or the birth of your 1st baby, but as I was pregnant when we got married I looked at it as still counting.
They are all thin, about 2mm and I have long fingers so it’s no problem at all for me to wear all 3. To me all 3 complete the ‘set’.
I'll add some pictures but please no rude comments about my nails like I've had on here before. I know most people hate nails like mine but I always have them this long because I love them that way, they're 'me'. (I obviously have no problem with people disagreeing or not liking them but the way some people have expressed their opinions in the past has been extremely rude). And ignore the fact that they have obviously grown out a lot. They were originally done on the 23rd of December, and when I took these pictures on the 13th of March they were nearly 12 weeks old.