To buy 7 month old DD Christmas presents?

[RaeCJ82]

So DD will be 7 months old on Christmas Eve. I’m currently looking at what toys to buy her for Christmas, but when I’ve mentioned this to friends, a couple of them have asked me why I’m bothering buying her Christmas presents as she won’t understand what Christmas is.
AIBU to buy her a few toys to unwrap with her on Christmas Day? Did other people buy presents for their babies even though they didn’t know what Christmas or presents were? I think my friends are being a bit mean but wonder what other people think.

Dd also got a santa babygro with hat tacky me nooo

My son will be 4.5 months at Christmas. We’re not going mad but we’ve got him a jumperoo (second hand, and he probably would have got one at some point had it not been for Christmas.) I will also get a few toys and books for him and some practical things for when we start weaning (a month or two down the line).

I can imagine a child’s first Christmas going uncelebrated! He won’t know what’s going on at the time but we will have fun, he’ll play with/use the things he’s given then or later and he’ll be able to look back at the photos when he’s older. Win win.

Ugh some people are such joy suckers. Both of mine got presents their first Christmases, not much just outfits and age appropriate toys mostly. No one spent loads on either of them but they were included. In fact then 4 year old DD would have been very upset if then 6 month old DS didn't have any presents to open even though she opened the lot for him along with her own presents

Bearing in mind baby will be 19 months old by the next Christmas theres loads of stuff a baby needs for the next year. We bought oldest dd a little tikes rocking horse for hers, she was 10 months old. I threw it out this summer. She is 23 and no longer needed it

I'm guessing your friends don't have children? Or are they Scrooge?

Of course you buy her presents. She's part of the family and so part of your Christmas. It's a lovely time when children are small -for you and them - and,so what if they enjoy the wrapping paper and boxes the best,it's all part of the fun!

You are definitely not BU, OP!

This is your DD's first Christmas and while she might be too young to understand what is going on, you aren't. It's 100% your choice as her parent as to how you want to celebrate Christmas this year and every year onwards!

Our DS could be as young as 1 week old this Christmas (depending on when he decides to make an appearance!!) and we've still gotten him a little gift (and a personalised letter from Santa as a keepsake of his first Christmas). Granted, like other people have said, the gift is just something that we would have bought for him anyway but it feels like the ritual of giving is more important than the gift itself or the LO understanding. 😊

Nina, we just got DD the Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo and she absolutely loves it. They’re brilliant. She jumps away with a massive grin on her face!

DS was 3 weeks old at Christmas.

I did debate not buying him anything because I knew he would have no clue but in the end I couldn’t not. I felt too mean!

I have 2 little girls. For their first Christmas they got a silver charm bracelet with a meaningful charm each and those bracelets now get a charm for christening, every birthday and Christmas. It's a gift you can give a baby without it being a waste I felt.

My ds with he 11 months at Xmas.
I personally won't be buying him presents. I am no longer getting smp and so have no income of my own to buy anything.
His dad and our families will buy him so much I don't see the point in me getting myself into debt to get him more stuff.

I think it's personal choice though. People buy their pets presents and they don't know its Xmas.

DS was 10 months old for his first. I got some shiny plasticky wrapping paper and loosly wrapped a few cheap things from charity shops -highlight being a push along trolley of bricks. He loved playing with the wrapping.

Our pair were 4 months old and we got them gifts, so did everyone else. Obviously they didn't understand what was going on but it was a family celebration made extra special because of their arrival. They also didn't understand about being dressed in Xmas pudding baby grows so they couldn't fight back!

Get her some presents but don't break the bank. Last christmas eve there were some people on my facebook with the presents piled up to the top of the couch for a 2 week old which is unnecessary.

We got both of ours presents for their first christmas. DD1 was 3 weeks old and DD2 5 months. Didn't go mad, but got a few bits we would have got anyway and some things for when they were a bit older, jumperoo, shape sorter, bath toys, books. Wouldn't have occurred to me not too!

DD was 3wo for her first Christmas. We had a few baby toys and an awful Christmas babygro too. and I cried loads whilst my DH and DM helped me make Christmas dinner. Actually I think I only had to make spuds as my DM bought a turkey with her. I cried because I had to make spuds and veg. Sounds about right!!

I bought each of my kids something similar to this for their first Christmas.

https://www.google.ch/search?q=music+box+magnetic&client=safari&hl=en-ch&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAmZ-iq3XAhVD2xoKHSABDQQQQ_AUIEigB&biw=320&bih=460#imgrc=ap1or6TlKQuO3M:

They were well loved.

And I put up lots of lights/decorations for them to look at.

I didn't buy anything else though. Grandparents always go over board, so I have no need!

www.toysrus.co.uk/babiesrus/bright-starts-hide-and-spin-monkey/TRUP1906800001/CF0001?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping&utm_content=mobile&camp=CA:google:MCF:mobile&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8cfey46t1wIVZirTCh2OgwfcEAQYASABEgIOzvD_BwE

This was a big hit with my dd at her first Christmas when she was 6 months. She's now nearly 2.5 years and still plays with it every day.
Also got her books, clothes and a shape sorter.

They’re fab aren’t they @RaeCJ82. I got the little Einstein one as we don’t have tons of room and it comes apart so we can stick it behind the sofa when we want to pretend we have a nice tidy grown up house.

A friend has the same one so my son got a little go in it this afternoon and he seemed to like it (he’s a bit under the minimum weight and isn’t sitting unaided yet so I think he’ll get more out of it when he’s that bit bigger.

One of my dc was days old at Christmas and still got presents - stuff I would have bought anyway like a Sophie Giraffe and a baby gym thing. How could you not?!

as she won’t understand what Christmas is
Meh. At what age do they?? DS is 2.5 this Christmas- he doesn't know enough to be sad if he didn't get presents but that int the point. Also what if these miserable people had a child with severe learning difficulties s that. they never really knew what Christmas was? Would they honestly not buy?
My friends baby will be a few months old this first Christmas, so probably a nice book and some clothes

I must be weird because I had to make a conscious effort to buy my DC stuff at Christmas when they were babies. Even now I purposefully buy as little as possible when there are grandparent presents to conceal my thriftiness

I think of it as saving to buy them expensive shit when they are older!!

My ds4 was 12 days old on Christmas Day and I still made sure he had a few things for Christmas.

My Christmas Eve baby had Christmas presents and a stocking! He might not have known what Christmas was but he's made use of his toys.
I don't get the logic that babies don't get gifts - do they not needs toys or anything before they are 1??.

I got my 7 week old Christmas presents. Which I wrapped up and then unwrapped for him! Including a reindeer babygro! Ignore and buy away..

As well as the baby not understanding what Christmas is, most parents tend just to get babies things as and when they want to/need to. So Christmas presents aren't really a treat as they would be for older children. A baby is going to be overwhelmed by loads of presents, much better to spread them out.