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 :)

Give it another year or so and we'll start seeing threads here listing all the Easter themed activities a mum has arranged to make Easter "memories" for the kids and the question: Have I done enough?

It wouldn't bother me. The earth doesn't need any more tat / crap in it!

🤣

I remember that thread. Bonkers is right.

I recall seeing Easter Trees way before TikTok. It was usually a small bare tree painted white with little Easter eggs on it.

Little gifts for Easter is nothing new and I definitely remember having those as a kid and that was before SM was a thing.

I did find it strange when my own children were given Easter Chocolates when they weren’t old enough to have food, and was told by the giver they know they aren’t old enough to eat it but it was for me despite knowing I’m not a fan of chocolate.

We haven't got anything for dh's baby grandchild...he's 10 months. Bonkers.

No. Just no.

YABU in my eyes. If Easter is a big thing in your household then it might be different.

No one in my family has even said happy Easter. Saw them yesterday with our new baby and no one brought anything. It’s normal! We’ve put her in an outfit but that’s it haha.

My littles all got gifts on their first Easter from family members.. a wee Easter teddy or book or maybe a wee sleep suit, they never got missed out

I sent my baby DGNephew nappies - felt bad sending nothing when everyone else was getting chocolate eggs and thought he would definitely use them

@Pepsiisbetterthancoke Easter 'trees' are traditional in DH's home country but they look like the picture below on the left, not the one on the right!

I've always bought babies in my family a little gift.
Nieces / nephews got a token gift book / cuddly toy / baby grow / pjs where's as my children / grandchildren got a bit more, usually an outfit or slightly bigger toy.

There must be so many 'cuddles', Easter chicks and Teddies in landfill.

DH is one of three siblings, they all have two children each plus full sets of grandparents.
The consumption is out of control if every moment is accompanied by a gift 'just a little something'.
So if everyone buys a kid a teddy for the first five years that's potentially 30 non chocolate gifts for Easter alone, plus birthdays plus Christmas, Halloween, plus just a cute thing for valentines. Hundreds of just a cheap, cute thing, only £3, to get passed around.

It’s nae Christmas is it? I really dinna understand all these folk that leave piles o gifts fae the Easter bunny for their geets. Next year surely an Easter egg will be mair than enough.

My DMum now deceased never liked the aunts uncles grandparents to gift for Easter. No baskets of candy no eggs no gifts because she felt it “stole the Easter bunnies thunder aka her thunder”. DM was a dear kind generous woman but felt her Dc should
wake up to their surprise Easter baskets on Easter Sunday. I do the same. I also so strongly agree there is just so much tat out there for every. Single. holiday. From home decor to clothing to toys it’s a mountain of stuff. China is producing all this seasonal product an alarming rate…look at the labels it’s all marked made in China. It’s teaching children to amass so much when I want to teach holiday minimalism and enjoying the family and food at the holiday not stuff.

Exactly. I always saw the ones on the left even when I was in the States.

If it’s now like the one on the right, that is definitely a new thing.