Do women pregnant with their first baby get something on Mother's Day?

[Aur0raAustralis]

I'm curious how many mothers got a present/card/some sort of acknowledgement when they were pregnant with their first? Particularly those in their last trimester.

Is it jumping the gun or does someone going through pregnancy deserve a little something too?

Goodness! I didn't even get a card until my children were nearly adults! I would have liked to have a card, and maybe a little treat, when they were little bit that would have meant reminding my husband or buying it myself, so there was no point really.

So no.... someone who has not even had their baby yet should not be getting anything for mothers day.

Or, to be more succinct than I was before.

No.

@PutAGirdleRoundAboutTheEarthIn40MinutesThe whole family is coming it's an annual celebration. She's said several times she's excited to be one of the "mum's ' this yr. We've been hosting this for going on 10yrs and the mum's to be are always given a little token. Now time for coffee,.I have 50 odd guest's coming for brunch in a few hours.

no

but I didn’t (want to) buy anything at all until very close to birth and that was only on dh’s insistence. We definitely hadn’t agreed on a name.

No, I would have felt it odd I think. I might be a bit superstitious though…

No

I didn’t but I’d only found out I was pregnant with the first a couple of weeks before so certainly didn’t consider myself a mother yet, although of course felt very attached to baby already, but might’ve felt slightly differently if I was 39 weeks!

Well no….

Nope. Mother's day is for when you're a mother. Being pregnant isn't the same. Besides, it's tempting fate.

No, not at all.

My mother (who is religious) insists on calling it Mothering Sunday and every year I struggle more and more to find a card with those words without a load of old lady poetry in it. Usually manage in the end, but Mother's Day is certainly more common in the UK these days.

Thank you, everyone, and sympathies to those who have experienced losses.

It's interesting to read the range of views, and I can certainly understand the tempting fate perspective.

The Mothering Sunday comment made me look up that term, as it's not used where I am (Australia). I now finally know why the UK celebrates Mother's Day on a different day to a lot of other countries - it's an amalgamation of the commercial US day with the older church-based day. Fascinating! (Sorry, you probably all know this!)

No

I never did and it wouldn’t have occurred to me either. And we really celebrate Botha Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, probably more so than many people seem to but we didn’t celebrate until we actually had children born.

Another 'No' here.

Also in the 'it seems like tempting fate' camp.

I would have thought the foetus has very limited shopping options

@Aur0raAustralis No. It isn't a thing. Well, it isn't a thing I've ever heard of in my life and I'm nearly 70. But I wouldn't be surprised if TikTok had created it. People celebrate the opening of a fridge door these days.

Out of interest, did you find out about the others via social media posts?

Your first mother's day is the first one with your baby after it is born.

On the other hand, if your partner did want to make you breakfast in bed and bring you some flowers as you are busy growing their baby, you don't have to say no. :-)