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Baby’s first Easter… gifts or no gifts?

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Sunflower8710 · 30/03/2024 23:51

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 :)

OP posts:

noodlesfortea · 31/03/2024 04:48

I wouldn't expect a gift. I had a new baby last Easter, no one bought her a gift, I didn't notice because it's not a thing

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 31/03/2024 04:53

as far as I am concerned other than Easter eggs (which you clearly wouldn’t give to a baby) Easter gifts are not a thing. I did get my baby a couple of easterish books but I don’t think I actually have them on Easter Sunday itself and nothing from family and I didn’t expect it.
you shouldn’t be annoyed here.

Bournetilly · 31/03/2024 07:00

I would buy them something myself but I wouldn’t expect other people to buy them something.

VestibuleVirgin · 31/03/2024 07:03

Don't be that person who expects a gift for their baby/child at every opportunity.

WithACatLikeTread · 31/03/2024 07:30

SkyBloo · 31/03/2024 00:02

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.

A bit derogatory towards Christians. Imagine the same type of comment towards Muslims at Ramadan.

spidermonkeys · 31/03/2024 07:50

I would have bought a little Easter teddy/book or Easter themed toy. But I wouldn't have been bothered if my DC didn't get anything.

We're there older children there that got anything? I know you said first GC but we're there extended family kids that did get a gift?

haveyoutriedturningitoffandonagain · 31/03/2024 07:52

I thought this was going to be about you buying a gift for your own baby. I bought a toy rabbit but I think that was more for me than my child. I wouldn't expect anyone else to. We aren't a religious family.

YorkshirePuddingsGreatestFan · 31/03/2024 07:59

I didn't buy my own children anything for Easter until they were old enough to eat chocolate eggs. I didn't think of buying relatives children an Easter gift until they were also old enough for chocolate.

VickyEadieofThigh · 31/03/2024 08:04

"Easter gifts" is not a thing and I really hope people don't make it a thing.

DappledThings · 31/03/2024 08:06

Easter gifts is not a thing. Easter eggs yes, and if not old enough for an egg then not old enough to notice not getting one.

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 31/03/2024 08:06

Dd1 (8) was given an egg but dd2 (1) was given a plush chicken by her aunt and uncle.

Londonrach1 · 31/03/2024 08:06

Easter gifts, that's a new one.

mitogoshi · 31/03/2024 08:07

Never heard of Easter gifts for a baby too young for chocolate

Grumpynan · 31/03/2024 08:09

I always give my grandchildren Easter eggs, when they were to little I would get a cuddly rabbit or Easter related toy. I don’t agree with “gifts” at Easter just an egg, but don’t like to leave a LO out.

user1492757084 · 31/03/2024 08:14

For Easter give the new baby a teeny bright egg.
And say, "Happy Easter little chappy."

The parents will enjoy it.

Make baby an Easter play list with Lord of the Dance,
Morning Has Broken and other Easter songs.

If it is near his Christening, an egg cup could be fine.

On the whole, it is not usual for a baby to get an Easter egg.

fieldsofbutterflies · 31/03/2024 08:14

A toy rabbit or something would have been cute but I wouldn't expect it.

QueSyrahSyrah · 31/03/2024 08:16

Easter gifts?? Maybe an Easter egg is nice when they're old enough for one, but as they're not then no, nothing is required.

FizzyDucks · 31/03/2024 08:17

At 3 months, baby has probably already been lavished with gifts when born so it is very unreasonable to be pissed off that baby is not getting even more gifts at Easter.

myheadisaterribleplace · 31/03/2024 08:18

I bought my youngest niece and soft egg Teddy because it felt unfair to get everyone else something and not her. Obviously she's too young to understand and probably won't be the least bit interested in it but it only cost £3 which is the same price as the easter eggs that I bought for my other 3 niece and nephews.

Testina · 31/03/2024 08:18

Good grief 🙄

Ilovelurchers · 31/03/2024 08:19

Minata · 31/03/2024 00:10

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?

Obviously there is "such a thing as Easter gifts" - I have given them myself. Just because it's a tradition you don't observe, doesn't mean others don't do things differently. OP isn't suggesting anywhere I can see that he "needs" a gift.

OP, I genuinely wouldn't get upset about this - it's totally unimportant. But of course some people do give Easter gifts and the fact that they do so doesn't harm others.....

MidnightPatrol · 31/03/2024 08:19

HeddaGarbled · 31/03/2024 00:28

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.

Everything is like this now - I blame instagram!! Bloody Easter baskets, Easter egg hunts etc.

Christmas the same - as if it’s not already a lot of expenditure / organisation, now you need to do Elf on a Shelf, Christmas Eve boxes etc.

OP there is no need for Easter gifts if they don’t eat chocolate eggs IMO.

tealandteal · 31/03/2024 08:21

If there were older children then I’d get the little one something to have instead of an egg but no wouldn’t generally get a gift for a baby that age at Easter.

Ilovelurchers · 31/03/2024 08:23

And everybody else saying Easter gifts "aren't a thing" - do you walk around the shops with your eyes closed then?

They may be a thing you don't wish to give or receive, but certainly the exist. I get a bit tired of people on here choosing to vilify something simply because they don't like it personally.....

Rosesanddaisies1 · 31/03/2024 08:26

Of course not. We didn’t get ours any presents for first couple of years. Pointless.

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