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Birthday card

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Heartburn888 · 18/10/2019 07:52

It’s my birthday today ♥️🎉

My partner has kindly bought me a card from him and from his two boys (my step sons) which was lovely and appreciated.

I haven’t got a card from my unborn child - am I just being a birthday drama queen or is my disappointment justified? I have asked him he said the supermarket didn’t have any cards from ‘bump’ but if that was me purchasing the card I’d of just got a happy birthday mummy card. I’m in the latter stages of pregnancy for context.

Aibu to go and buy one myself?

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LettuceP · 18/10/2019 12:30

Some of the comments on here really are a new low for aibu Sad

OP I was sad not to get a card from bump on mother's day. Especially as I'd not long given dh a birthday card from bump. That bump is now 4 so I can look back and laugh but (as I'm guessing you will have realised by now) pregnancy does some weird things to you and insignificant things can seem like a big deal.

Happy birthday Flowers I really hope that some of the disgraceful comments on this thread haven't ruined your day.

Celebelly · 18/10/2019 12:30

I think if you wanted one you should have said so. It wouldn't occur to my DP that this was a 'thing' (it didn't really occur to me either until someone asked what 'bump' had got me for Christmas. Alas, only heartburn and stretch marks). So just chalk it up to experience and let him know next time you expect something like that; not everyone is sentimental in that way.

smartcarnotsosmartdriver · 18/10/2019 12:34

I got DH a card for his birthday in August and signed it from bump (along with me and the cats).
I specifically pointed out how sweet I though cards from bump were and last weekend received a lovely card from said bump. I figured if I can carry him around and keep him safe then the very least he could do would be to send me a card. Weird and precious? Probably, but I loved it.

FinallyHere · 18/10/2019 13:31

I haven’t got a card from my unborn child -

Mothers, hormones. Go easy.

Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day.

Thund3rMumma · 18/10/2019 13:42

I brought a birthday card for daddy from bump and got a happy birthday daddy card so why can't us mummies get one

Toddlerteaplease · 18/10/2019 15:40

It was mine yesterday, my parents sent me a card from their cat and wrote +2 on the front. GrinGrin

antisupermum · 18/10/2019 15:57

I'm quite appalled at some of the comments on here and the mob mentality that seems to have gathered steam. AIBU is notorious for being a bit harsh but some of the comments on here are below the belt and I am shocked that people would feel it acceptable to post such things. I'm quite certain most people would never dream of saying such things to peoples faces but feel it's acceptable because it's the internet. I also strongly believe they would be equally as appalled if it was someone they loved who was receiving this kind of vitriol for a trivial post. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

NoSauce · 18/10/2019 16:16

If a friend in RL had said this to me I would have said are joking!

ThatMuppetShow · 18/10/2019 16:21

I'm quite certain most people would never dream of saying such things to peoples faces

no, they probably save it for laughing at you behind your back.
You ask on an anonymous forum, you get the honest answer. 🤷

73Sunglasslover · 18/10/2019 17:47

Pretty sure if someone had posted to say they were on the receiving end of verbal abuse from a partner or friends over a small issue like the one I have posted then you’d be saying LTB it’s abuse or similar!

I know emotions can run high when you feel strongly about something, and it can be disappointment to discover that 90% of people don't agree with you. Some people have written some horrible things but so have you. I think this might be why people are talking about 'throwing toys out of pram'. I actually found your retort more upsetting than the blunt comments.

messolini9 · 18/10/2019 17:57

Yes, YABU.

Aibu to go and buy one myself?
Is this a wind-up? You are surely pulling our legs?

Candymay · 18/10/2019 19:11

I can’t stand the term baby bump. Makes me cringe. Nothing to do with this I know. But anything from ‘bump’ i find horrible for some reason. And the cutesy twee t shirts and badges etc. Even those baby on board badges annoy me- (yes I know that’s not nice to say and there’s a reason for letting people know you might need a seat etc). It just goes right through me. So I definitely wouldn’t have wanted a card from my unborn child.

PinkFl · 18/10/2019 19:43

What???? LoL!!

Raspberrytruffle · 18/10/2019 19:49

Do you also expect a birthday card of your dps sperm? Silly sausage, happy birthday enjoy the peace before the baby arrives Cake

KarmaStar · 18/10/2019 20:18

Happy birthday!!!😀
Yabu but you don't agree so no idea why you bothered to post.
There's enough wastage of paper and enough commercialisation without more greed for a card from an unborn child.
Please grow up a bit op.

FrancisCrawford · 19/10/2019 08:17

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SprinkleDash · 19/10/2019 08:19

@Heartburn888 never heard anything so fucking ridiculous in all my days!! Are you for real????? 😂😂😂

username578999 · 19/10/2019 08:27

Ha ha good one .
I'll put it down to the pregnancy hormones in a few weeks you will think wtf was I thinking.
Also they do cards from the cat & dog but these are for loons . Grin

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