Thank you note written by 3 week old baby

[letterletter]

Dear X and X,

Thank you so much for my gift, I love it. Here's what I have been up to. Mummy and Daddy say hi etc etc

Love baby

YANBU - annoying and cringe
YABU - babies love to write, stop being grumpy

Extremely cringey but I would still appreciate being thanked and wouldn’t laugh at them.

I know someone who does it on social media from her dog. I think it’s a bit mad but it’s no harm to me. From a baby I wouldn’t see the harm. DH has always got me birthday and Mother’s Day cards from the kids and has always written to mummy love from kids before they could write. Either that or they’ve been writing since birth which is a possibility.

As long as a thank you is said I don't think it matters who the note is from.

Oh good lord. Please can we all just stop being critical and whingey and snotty and angry and picky and just so fucking depressing… and allow a little joy, air and leeway?

Couldn’t agree more. Threads like this are so depressing.

I'd be grateful for the letter as a lot of people don't send thank yous now! Personally i wrote them from us rather than the baby but I wouldn't cringe if I received that letter at all.

Just be grateful for the thank you note and stop being so grumpy

It's new exited parents who're thrilled to be called Mummy and Daddy. Be happy for them

YANBU, it's stupid. Why couldn't they just have sent you a proper note?

@AnyCakeButBattenburg

YANBU, it's stupid. Why couldn't they just have sent you a proper note?

They did.

I think its a lovely idea, but a lovely idea for those who are v close. Not a note you'd send Sarah from work from your baby, but for grandparents and aunts and uncles etc I think its lovely.

If a 3 week old baby really wrote that,
I would think 'That's weird'

But if the parents wrote it pretending to be a 3 week old baby, then
I would think 'That's weird'

It could be worse...... Ive had cards from 'the dog'

My cats send birthday cards to my husband and me, so I have no objection to babies doing it.

Well done mum of 3 week old baby for getting your thank you cards out already! Hopefully this is the mum of the baby checking of this is ok and not some horrible friend or relative bitching about her online just after she’s give birth.

Parents can't win. No thank you notes until the kids can write then you are rude. Write one when you are sleep deprived and it is criticised.

Weird and annoying.

@Crudger

Well done mum of 3 week old baby for getting your thank you cards out already! Hopefully this is the mum of the baby checking of this is ok and not some horrible friend or relative bitching about her online just after she’s give birth.

I know right it took me months to do mine!

3 weeks in I was struggling to even make my own lunch so just be grateful and have a bit of compassion instead of moaning it wasn't in your required format.

'Here's what I have been up to?'
No don't do it, definitely not this bit. No one's really that interested.

My nieces and nephews get sent cards from Auntie, Uncle and ‘Cousin Mittens’.

I’ve just realised that although I write it as a joke, they probably don’t realise that and likely think I’m nuts.

A bit naff. Take out the 'mummy and daddy say Hi' bit and it's ok. Send a little pic.

If this is your baby OP and you're doing the writing, don't sweat it just send it. Your time is too precious right now to be stressing over this.

People are seriously getting annoyed by being thanked for a gift now??? Wtf?

I taught my babies to text, it saved on the cost of stamps. 🤭

I’ve just done it from my newborn (maybe the card was from me) because I couldn’t hand on heart write a thank you note from me for the tenth huge knitted blanket that won’t be used because she will drown in it, the cuddly toys, or the clothes bought that will never fit her the season they need to be worn, or the vast amount of hideous pink clothes we’ve been bought. The baby is much politer than I am!
I know I sound really ungrateful but it has caused me so much stress figuring out where I am supposed to put this stuff and filling my house up with needless stuff that I know I will never use. And the last thing I want to be doing is constantly tidying my house which it feels like I am doing with a newborn.
My heart sinks every time I get a visitor arrive with a gift bag!