What do you buy an 8 month old for Christmas?!

[Sofiegiraffe]

Not an AIBU sorry - just need some inspiration please! Thank you

So far based on this thread I have added to my list:

• personalised first Christmas book / bauble
• Hide and squeak eggs (they look like a lot of fun)
• a walker
• books
• wooden pop up toy (someone shared a link to)
• ball pit
• bath toys
• clothes

Stacking cups have been mentioned a lot but she has these already.

@heyitsA

8 months are beginning to learn new things like talking, crawling, walking etc. Definitely something that can help encourage this! Maybe a jumperoo, a Walker, a toy car to sit on and push along, an interactive book to learn to letters / words etc!

She has a jumperoo already but walker is on the list!

www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/pre-school-and-electronic-learning/fisher-price/fisher-price-infant-toys/fisher-price-laugh-and-learn-magical-musical-mirror/p/194278

I've also just spotted this... she loves things that sing and light up so I think this might be good too.

@Twixxed

Following with interest! Everyone saying nothing - great in theory, not so good when there's an older kid who's going to wonder why their baby sibling hasn't got any presents. Also family will ask for ideas.

For my second I’d put away various baby toys from older sibling that he had forgotten about and I wrapped those up. Might have bought a toy or two from a charity shop too.

I really hated the idea of buying something just for the sake of buying something when we had everything we needed. At the same time, I felt like she should have some presents “from Father Christmas” the same as the older one did.
I’m quite glad I did it that way as as the years have gone by it’s become a bit of a target to stick to zero or low waste presents.

Not a parent but I can't imagine a baby not getting anything at Christmas! Even my dog gets a present! Doesn't need to be anything big, a rattle or some pyjamas perhaps.

@Youdoyoutoday I assume tequila was a typo? 😂

This will be DD's first Christmas and we've got her loads of lovely little toys. I can't understand people not buying their child anything for Christmas, I don't know anyone in RL who would do this....one of those competitive MN look how little I can eat/spend things.

Anyway....DD will be 10mths at Christmas and we've got her a Dozy Dinkum Doll (looks like her) Lanka Kade Farm Animals, Stacking Bath toys, Tickle Me Elmo, books, rattles, stacking cubes that also become a jigsaw, a money box, Disney Moana bath toys, nesting babies dolls and a few other small toys. It's her Birthday in February so will split the stuff between those.

We also have a DS who is 4 soon and he'd be very upset to see Santa hadn't brought his baby sister toys too.

Giant stuffed elephant from Melissa and Doug.

@Sofiegiraffe for my DD's first Christmas, my husband and I both bought something for her separately, so we each got a surprise when the other person opened the wrapping paper for DD.

I can't remember what I bought now, but DH bought her a wooden pull-along cat, which is now on a shelf as a lovely keep-sake and reminder of her first Christmas.

I can't understand people not buying their child anything for Christmas, I don't know anyone in RL who would do this...

We honestly didn't get our two month old anything for his first Christmas. It was nothing to do with competitive MN whatever, I wasn't on MN at the time and certainly didn't go round saying "ooh we didn't get DS anything aren't we amazingly thrifty". Just thought there was absolutely no point. He'd had loads of gifts when he was born. He got loads of gifts from other people that Christmas. What on Earth could we have got him?

I can't understand people not buying their child anything for Christmas, I don't know anyone in RL who would do this.

Me neither. It breaks my heart a little if I'm honest. ☹️

[quote SkepticalCat]@Sofiegiraffe for my DD's first Christmas, my husband and I both bought something for her separately, so we each got a surprise when the other person opened the wrapping paper for DD.

I can't remember what I bought now, but DH bought her a wooden pull-along cat, which is now on a shelf as a lovely keep-sake and reminder of her first Christmas.[/quote]

Oh I love this idea

@TheSpiral I understand why you might not bother at a matter of weeks or just 2 months. But an 8 month old is much more interactive and aware - I just can't imagine not getting her something for Christmas!

@Sofiegiraffe

I can't understand people not buying their child anything for Christmas, I don't know anyone in RL who would do this.

Me neither. It breaks my heart a little if I'm honest. ☹️

I know....very sad. Part of the excitement of being a parent. Buying your child their first Christmas gift. I probably go a bit ott but it's easy to buy a small keepsake such as a nice book.

Books

[quote Sofiegiraffe]@Youdoyoutoday I assume tequila was a typo? 😂[/quote]
No, but you have made think that tequila is not very festive so maybe whisky 😉🤣

@Sofiegiraffe

I can't understand people not buying their child anything for Christmas, I don't know anyone in RL who would do this.

Me neither. It breaks my heart a little if I'm honest. ☹️

But why?? Why would I have bought a two month old something when he had so much stuff only two months before and got so much stuff from other people at Christmas and had no idea what was going on? I mean, you guys do you, but don't break your heart over my tiny baby not getting a Christmas present from his parents. He really didn't care.

DS2 we did get stuff for, because he was eight months at Christmas so had more need for age appropriate toys etc and also because he had an older brother who was watching proceedings.

@Sofiegiraffe

Not an AIBU sorry - just need some inspiration please! Thank you

Nothing!

[quote Sofiegiraffe]@TheSpiral I understand why you might not bother at a matter of weeks or just 2 months. But an 8 month old is much more interactive and aware - I just can't imagine not getting her something for Christmas! [/quote]
Sorry, we cross-posted!

It seems rather harsh to give nothing, just because the baby is too young to know it is missing out!
My own second DD was born close to midnight on 23rd December. She wasn’t expected to survive and was ventilated in NICU. But Santa Claus still visited - we went in on Christmas morning and found a little felt stocking and rattle left on her incubator. OK, she was only just over a day old, but we appreciated the presents for her. And now, against the odds, she is a healthy adult 30 year old, she still has them.

Tequila 🤣🤣🤣 was that a typo @Youdoyoutoday? 😃

I would say things that attach to stuff you already use, to serve as distractions/entertainment. So things that attach to the pram, car seat, high chair, bath etc. Other than that, books, clothes, a winter all-in-one coat/pram suit.

Also if they're not cruising yet they will be soon, so maybe some comfortable cruiser shoes, a push-along walker, etc.

We couldn't get nothing for my youngest as his older sibling would have been upset. We bought a book in which the main character / title had the same name as him as a keep sake.
Then chiffon scarves, foil blanket and baby bells- a few of the things he liked from Baby Sensory classes. Didn't spend more than £5-6!

Nothing? They won't have a clue.

It's mean to buy nothing. I get that you don't need to buy a lot when they're newborn but jeez.

Mine both had toddler sized dinner sets. China ones but small sized. They didn't use them until they were quite a bit older but they still have them at 17 and 14. They don't use them because they are so piddly sized. But they have them on shelves in their bedrooms.