Qick - need present help for expectant mum!

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SnowPlaceLikeHome · 08/12/2011 17:45

I need to buy a present pronto for a good friend who is almost 8 months pregnant. She is quite a stylish person. My fail-safe mum-to-be present has always been Clarins body oil, but think its a bit late in he pregnancy for stretch-mark prevention.

Alternatively, I could get something for her and her husband - a joint, couplesy gift. But what?

TIA!

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AlmaWalkingInAWinterWonderland · 08/12/2011 17:49

MIL got me the Neal's Yard mother to be kit for Christmases when I was pregnant. It was great! Lovely facial spritzer that was actually v. refreshing in labour and some bath/oil bits that I used after the birth to relax.

nerfmum · 08/12/2011 17:52

Another vote for neal's yard here! It was my fav pressy too.

mummymccar · 08/12/2011 19:08

I was about to suggest Lush but just googled Neal's Yard and I'd go with that instead! I'm nearly 8 months pregnant too and going to drop hints about this with everybody I know now!

PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom · 09/12/2011 00:15

If she's a close friend, get her a tube of pile cream! When my midwife produced a tube from her black bag when DS3 was four days old and I was cringing on a pile of cushions and sobbing pitifully when she arrived to do his daily check I could have fallen on her neck and kissed her!

zipzap · 09/12/2011 00:32

Whatever you do don't get anything for the baby, get her something that is a real treat for her.

When I was pg people gave me Xmas and birthday presents of things for the baby and tbh it felt like a bit of a slap, that somehow I'd become invisible and there were all these thing for the baby that hadn't even been born. And it meant that they'd bought things that I would have like to have chosen for myself but then felt I couldn't as I already had them, stuff that I'd been planning to go and get in a big shopping jaunt myself in the post Xmas sales so it felt like a double slap iyswim.

I know, I know, a present should just be graciously received and I was very polite and said thank you nicely. But everybody thought they were being really original and clever getting something for the baby and it meant that at the end of the day while everyone else was looking at their big piles of presents and wondering whether to have these nice chocs or those nice biscuits, or crack open some nice wine or use their new cocktail kit or decide which of their new books to read etc etc I was looking at a pile of horrible manky baby stuff. Wouldn't have been so bad if dh had been given the same sort of baby stuff but oh no, it was Christmas as normal for him.

All of course made worse by the combined effects of hormones and no alcohol!

You can probably tell - the memories have stayed to this day and it was one of the first times that I really felt that I was no longer me, just a vessel for the baby.

What I'm trying to say is get something that your friend would love regardless of the baby!

FebreezeYourJeans · 10/12/2011 07:19

I agree, why do you have to get her anything related to her pregnancy? Wouldn't she prefer a gorgeous scarf, books, lipstick... Anything to remind her that she is more than the sum of her pregnancy???

BloooCowWonders · 10/12/2011 07:30

Earrings/ bracelet/ scarf - anything that she can use now and once she's had the baby. Take the pregnancy out of the equation and treat her like a friend.

Pocket1 · 10/12/2011 07:36

How about a lovely, soft scarf - maybe cashmere (there are lots off offers on the high street). Temperature has dropped so she'll be grateful for it!

NewBikeForChristmas · 10/12/2011 07:57

As a new mumsnet with a recent birthday, I agree with Febreeze and Bloo.

ToothlesstheDragon · 10/12/2011 12:47

i would get her a dvd boxset of something lighthearted and funny. We borrowed lots for when our DC were born as one of us would do the night feed and there would be nothing good on tv at 4am. It made being awake at odd hours a little bit more tolerable.

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