To have not known about 'baby diamonds'?

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So apparently it's custom for a DP to buy DW diamonds for each child she has. I have not heard of this before? We have 2 children so should I be expecting (demanding??) sparkly shiny jewellery? I did mention it to my DP who didn't seem to know about it either! It's my fortieth birthday soon too. Maybe he could combine the two and I get a mahoosive sparkler? What do you think?
(who doesn't love diamonds?)

DH bought me jewellery after birth of both DDs (diamonds first time, a silver necklace the second) but I wouldn't call them 'baby diamonds' and he didn't give them instead of changing nappies.

Didn't make me feel like a mistress or a prostitute at all doublechoc

Made me feel rather smug actually.

I thought you got an eternity ring after the birth of your first. I didn't :(

Here in Sweden couples traditionally have their children in between being engaged and getting married. Something to do with vikings and fertility. Both partners get a plain gold band when they get engaged. The woman gets a second gold band when they marry with a diamond inset for each child they have.

No diamonds here. I did get flowers, a beautiful card and a (baby related) charm for my bracelet for each DC.

Even though DH didn't spend tons of money (he couldn't, we have never had any to spare), he has shown his love for me and our children in so many other ways : When they were babies, it was always DH who would get up in the night to change their nappies when I fed them, he would come home from work and immediately take over with dinner/baby etc to give me some 'me' time. He always did (and still does) probably more than his fair share of household chores, even when I was a SAHM. When I was a SAHM, he always woke me with a cup of coffee before going off to his work.

My DH is my diamond.

MrsRhett what can I say. I thought Barkis suggestion was pretty cool! Only if I can wear it as a necklace though...;))

I came home with ds1 to discover ex-h had helpfully left me several day's worth of washing up and the remains of a proportionate number of take-away curries. He bought me a Kit-Kat after ds2, something I was particularly pissed off about because I'd actually sent him out for sweet and sour crispy wonton.

Diamonds never entered into the business of having babies.

I think everyone deserves an iPad though. The shinier the better.

I've not heard of the diamond tradition, but my ex-FIL gives a piece of his wifes jewellery to the Mum when he gets a Grandchild.

Just realised how that sounds - he lost his wife a number of years ago and thought it would be a nice way of people remembering her. He gave me a gorgeous coloured gold necklace when DS ws born, but I dont dare wear it incase I lose it or something happens to it.

Diamonds? Diamonds?! A bunch of flowers would have been nice. "But your mother and your work colleagues had already got you some and I didn't think we had any more vases...".

This is a fantastic thread. No diamonds here, despite near death and 4 pregnancies ! But I did get one of those fruit salads from M+S that are all arranged vertically in different colours. The sort of thing we would never justify buying - a real treat.

Now that my baby shop is closed for business, I quite fancy me some new sparkly things to play with !! Do you think you could do 4 lots in retrospect ? would that defeat the point ?!!

I lost my wedding ring, took it off because age and two DDs have made my fingers thicken.
I now have a wedding band with 3 stripes which I always say represents DH and the DDs.
(my engagement and fifth wedding anniversary rings have 10 very small diamonds between them, he's not getting that many children)

i would have loved a present after DD, but i didn't even get a present for my birthday from DH two days before he would "buy me something nice after the baby was born" and it never materialised. i thought the tradition was to get an eternity ring on the birth of your first child, i didn't even get a hula hoop. ideally i would like this after the next one but my have to trade in DH who wouldn't spend christmas

Awwwww sayithowitis that is really sweet :)

I will admit that I got the following

A car

An eternity ring

A new kitchen

I have to show my DH this thread. Thanks everyone. Love u all xx

I'd gladly have another child if I could get a new kitchen! It is my dream to be able to design my own kitchen, it would have an island in the middle and drawers that you push to open and then they open all silently and it would have shiny red cupboard doors and I would have a wine cooler and one of those very expensive, very big wooden chopping boards, like big blocks.

Slightly irrelevant to the thread there sorry

Wow...so I should be dripping in ipads, diamonds and pink shiny balloons then what with the babies and marriaginginining?

Meh...fuck it, I'm happy without them >

Ooooh yes, I'd love a kitchen like that

You would NOT want a new kitchen when you come home with your baby and the builders are puling your back walls down and you dh goes away for work for 4 weeks.

Trust me on this.

MrsRhett. Would they not be diamond studded cupboards?

Well noo, well, sort of... But wasn't it all worth it in the end deuce?

Diamond studded cupboards!

I preferred the car tbh

And you could have an iPad for each drawer...maybe a mug tree laced with jewellery. I will stop now as I fear I may be appearing a tad shallow ;))