If you have just had a baby, would you rather…

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receive a bouquet of flowers or a plant? I intend to get another gift for the baby as well. Please help me out because I am a chronic ditherer 🤷🏼‍♀️

low maintenance plant

Both sound lovely, you sound very kind. Plant means you don't have to find a vase.

Neither - both require effort and care just at the point where I have time and headspace for neither!! Chocolate, or something easily edible would always be my go to. 😁

Flowers. I don’t like house plants.

Buy a thermos instead to keep hot drinks hot instead of endless cups of tea going cold because you are stuck under a baby.

Neither really but flowers at a push.

Even better if they come with a vase as she'll probably receive a lot.

I wouldn't want either!

Something edible would be ideal (chocolates) or a candle or some nice hand cream or some nice tea.

Chocolate!

Personally I'd prefer flowers.

I don't do house plants.

Cake, nourishing fruit cake. If mum is BF she'll be ravenous if like me,

Always flowers.
Never plants.

I had friends buy me plants and fruit. I kept both in the bedroom so I was always looking at green things and had fresh fruit to eat as a snack. I was so grateful for that - I love chocolate but there was too much of it when baby came, so fruit was a welcome change. I also got flowers, they were good too but the plant lasted longer.

I have just had a baby.

Honestly... neither.
Both need work/things doing to them. Find a vase change the water... find a spot for it 😓

I want "cook" dinners, tasty snacks or baked goods, really good waterbottles and reuseable coffee cups.

Neither really but definitely not flowers, we just didn't have space for them with all the cards and baby things. Something edible would be better. But no alcohol. I really only wanted things for the baby at that time TBH and wasn't interested in stuff for me.

All the people saying ' don't send either / I wouldn't be happy with either'

Really though surely you would. You'd think 'how nice of them to send a gift'.

Flowers 100 percent

Lavender hand cream.

Is neither an option? Take away vouchers or food I could eat with one hand appreciated.

I got 3 plants and 6 bunches of flowers with this baby.

After the first two my geniune thoughts were "thats nice of them but annoying."

By the time I got the last 3 i was like " more fucking flowers! i have no where to put these fuckers. I dont have biscuits for the tea I'm making and the baby is crying. I wish they'd just brought something to eat"

Disclaimer: I love food and am indifferent to flowers

On my second baby pretty much no one sent anything 😂 I enjoyed all the flowers etc with my first.
I usually send a box of cakes after a baby has been born.

I'd rather have food. Eg a tin of biscuits to offer guests or to fuel the mum. Or ready meals.
If you want a pamper gift for her then nice moisturizer or hand cream as she will be washing her hands so much.

Tbh neither, flowers require a vase to be found/water changed/dead flowers removed and a plant requires finding somewhere to put it & watering. I would have chosen chocolate or easy to grab snacks when I had just had my babies

Plant

Normally yes. But when you are hormonal, tired, struggling to feed and your already small house is being swamped with new stuff it can all get a bit much. I look back and cringe a bit now, obviously I was polite and thanked people but I do remember feeling completely overwhelmed and wishing it would all go away.

If you have to get a plant, get a succulent or something that thrives on neglect.
My vote is for biscuits, cake, or chocolate.