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Birth announcements

Share your unique birth stories and read heartwarming stories from fellow mums. For more on your baby’s development, check out the Mumsnet Ages & Stages emails.

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What does every new mum want as a present for herself?

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ladybump · 01/09/2006 20:38

Sorry to crash your threads but my friend has just had a little boy after 4 years ttc. Got baby Charlie a pressie but what can I get her? thought you ladies best people to ask... Congratulations to you all, you are all blessed. I just M/C and am just so happy for my friend as i know what a rollercoaster ttc is. Hope her good luck will rub off on me! Lots of ideas please girls..

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

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sassy · 01/09/2006 20:41

Clarins Beauty Flash Balm/YSL Touche Eclat

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ladybump · 01/09/2006 20:42

ooh she's like a pedicure. Only said the other day how feet were neglected as she couldn't see them.
Genius.

any more for any more???

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foundintranslation · 01/09/2006 20:42

Little bottle of champagne
A nice, long book for long sessions of bf/expressing
Big bottle of nice skin cream
Some home-cooked food for her to freeze

Beauregard · 01/09/2006 20:43

Sleep voucher or meals on wheels

or was that just me?

tassis · 01/09/2006 20:43

new clothes

or vouchers for her fave clothes shop so she can buy them herself

or pate and brie and lovely wine

MrsApronstrings · 01/09/2006 20:43

A friend of mine made me a gift bag - its years ago now but remembering it had a nice pair of knickers, some chocolate, some bath stuff and other treats.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 01/09/2006 20:43

A time voucher....where you allocate a day or few hours of your time to come round and give her a break (do housework stuff or cook a load of dinner bits for freezing) so she can SLEEP...........

If she is in to make up/toiletries etc then they are good idea too.

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ladybump · 01/09/2006 20:43

is that a concealer sassy?

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Cappuccino · 01/09/2006 20:46

I always buy massages

I hoped that someone would get the hint for dd2's birth

no-one did

sassy · 01/09/2006 20:46

Yep - fab for dark circles under eyes - broken nights!

Clarins flash balm tightens and brighten tired skin - ditto.

bananaloaf · 01/09/2006 20:47

a lovely plastic surgeon who would do a tummy tuck for me.

bramblina · 01/09/2006 20:48

Hand cream, you wash your hands sooo much more than ever before. Perfume and body lotion to smell lovely. Posh mascara and a new lipstick. Maybe a good home cooked lasagne or an offer of taking the baby for an hour's walk? I wouldn't have let mine out of my sight but the offer would have been nice!

clairemow · 01/09/2006 20:50

VVV's idea is great - I'd have loved someone to come and take DS for a walk just for 1/2 an hour when he was tiny.

you could also make her a casserole that she can either eat now or freeze for later on. It's so hard to find any time to cook good meals when your baby is tiny and you're knackered.

Could you organise a 'mobile' massage person to come to her house for her? Also good idea re. the bag full of little but lovely gifts.

Aren't you a lovely friend!!

Posey · 01/09/2006 20:50

Have to 2nd the vote for doing some chores. A friend of mine came round armed with lunch which she served up. When I took dd up for her nap she said you have half an hour too, I'll bring you up a cuppa. Well she did, 2 hours later when she done the washing up, the ironing, cleaned the kitchen floor, vacuumed, and made dinner for me and dh for later.
Its the only gift I can still remember 9 years later.
A pampering session when she feels a little more normal and able to leave her baby for an hour or 2 would be lovely. If you do it too soon she won't enjoy it as she will be clock watching til she can get back to Charlie.

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ladybump · 01/09/2006 21:02

The time idea sounds fab but feel that'll have to wait for a while as she'll clock watch.
I'd always have him anyway. will make her a big portion of lasagne and take it round tomorrow.

Just ordered her Clarins Beauty Flash Balm and YSL Touche Eclat online.Hope she likes it.

Thank you so much ladies.

If you're a new mum, print this page and leave it on driver's seat of DH/DP car.. be as subtle as a sledgehammer. Men habve inability to detect hints

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sassy · 01/09/2006 21:06

Sure she will appreciate them - more in 1 month's time than now, probably!

You sound a lovely friend - esp as you have had a recent m/c yourself. V thoughtful.

fattiemumma · 01/09/2006 21:07

A new fanjo!

only kidding.
how about making up a vousher on the PC for 2 hours of babysitting to be cashed in whenevr she fel like a good long kip.

i know that would have been worthmore than gold in the first few weeks for me!

olivia35 · 01/09/2006 21:10

I'd've loved half a dozen fat but undemanding paperbacks for all that lolling around on the sofa bf'ing!

ediemay · 01/09/2006 21:11

PMSL at "new fanjo".
Loads of Neal's yard products
Soft warm pull-on robe type things for night wandering (got a lovely one from the White Company for my sis in law)
Lippy
walkabout phone

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ladybump · 01/09/2006 21:18

ha ha ha at new fanjo!!!

M/C is so bloody hard. I've known people before who've had them and was sympathetic but then you forget. Until it happened to me, i never fully understood. i get that tighting of the throat in the most unlikely of places. But, we all know, it does happen. A fact of life.
My friend Kaz gives me hope. The nights she sat crying and now she has her boy, her Chaz. Dark her and wide eyes looking up trying to make sense of the world. It helps me.

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ladybump · 01/09/2006 21:19

OMG! Did i really just post that on the birth announcements thread? Remove that woman!!!

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PanicPants · 01/09/2006 21:21

Home cooked meals brought round every nigh for the first 2 weeks

saralou100 · 02/09/2006 11:02

my bestest buddy cleaned my oven for me.. i loved her for it...in fact i'm having a second as it needs doing again!! the gift of time is amazing, someone to help with all the tedoius things (like housework)

KristinaM · 02/09/2006 11:22

half a dozen home cooked meals for her freezer

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