Baby’s first Easter… gifts or no gifts?

[Sunflower8710]

Hi all

would you gift a nearly 3 months old baby an Easter gift? Obviously not chocolate but some sort of gift?

Hes the first grandson and nephew for the family and I can’t help feel a tad sad that grandparents/aunties and uncles haven’t made a little fuss when we had our get together yesterday.

thank you :)

What about gifting £5 for an Easter present

Never heard of Easter gifts! New baby gifts yes of course, but I think we can be pretty confident a 3-month-old is not going to know it's Easter

My mum might have bought an easter themed flap book or something for a grandchild but i don't think its expected at all to give gifts at easter, no. Certainly not aunts/uncles.

Remember op, little one is centre of your universe but not really of anyone else's [sorry]. Easter is not really a big deal for most adults in the Uk unless you are a christian & are going round greeting people "he is risen". For most people its a light hearted spring festival, no requirement for gifts.

No. Too young for an Easter egg = no gift

It's actually good to hear that the family didn't make a fuss - there is no such thing as Easter gifts and shouldn't be thing that's starting. He's 3mo, why does he need a gift?

Bonkers.

A fuss about Easter?

Are you religious at all? If so then maybe a kids bible or something would have been nice (sorry, I don't know what religious presents people give), aside from that, no.

Op I seriously look back and cringe at myself due to how I was with my first baby, I was so PFB it was unreal. You'll do exactly the same.

I think most people wouldn’t even consider an Easter gift! For anyone let alone a 3 month old baby. Sure get the kids a chocolate egg once they’re three or four but Easter gifts in general are not a thing. Also to many families, just in case this is something you start to worry about in the future, not everyone gets eggs either. As a child we got a few eggs from our parents and the same with my kids now. Easter just isn’t a massive deal for many people.

I have a baby a similar age.

Kindly, a fuss would be so odd??
It's Easter not their birthday.

I'd say it was the child's mother who needs a little gift, she must be dead on her feet.

Easter cards are a thing for religious folk. The rest of us don’t buy for babies. An egg from grandparents when older. That’s good enough.

Good grief. How ridiculous 🙄

We’re experiencing a sort of Easter-creep. To my generation, Christmas and birthdays were the times for gifts.

We used to give small cheap Easter eggs to children (not to adults) but otherwise Easter (nor Halloween, nor Valentine’s Day) was not a celebration on a par with those.

We’re being led by marketing here, as with Halloween and Valentine’s Day. We know that Christmas has become more about consumer expenditure than the original meaning, and I think one festival a year like that is OK. But we shouldn’t be pressured into keeping spending all this money every couple of months. It’s going to break some families.

Resist OP. Have an egg hunt and a nice lunch.

TBH it wouldn't cross my mind to get a baby an Easter gift. At three months it can't be that long ago that the family members gave him new baby presents.

I bought my DGS an little outfit when he was about 8 months. He's 8 now and I've never once bought him an Easter egg. DD says 1 egg from her and her DH is enough. Now I buy both DGS's a pair of new shoes each at Easter instead of an egg.

Easter gift? Before they're old enough for an Easter egg? No, of course not. If you're the parent and expected gifts - it's a bit grabby, frankly.

Easter gifts is not a thing. If you are a religious family then celebrate in the appropriate way. Otherwise, an egg from parents for a child is enough.

No. Ridiculous.

Easter gifts??

The only gifts I've ever given/received on Easter have been chocolate eggs (or Lindt bunnies if I'm feeling fancy).

A three month baby isn't going to have the faintest idea that it's Easter and they won't give a damn if they get gifts or not.

I’d bring a cuddly bunny or duck, or a wee outfit, even for a 3 month old.

My nephew is 4 months and I've brought him the little squeaky eggs to play with. Before I thought of those I was going to get him a book. I wouldn't have got him nothing so I get why you're upset!

My family didn’t do anything for any of our children’s first Easter other than the parents buying a little first Easter outfit. We left the little gifts until they turned 1.

DD is 11 months and I got her some egg shakers to play with while her DB eats his own body weight in chocolate eggs.