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Would you have expected presents for your unborn baby?

84 replies

JinglePrunes · 03/12/2006 23:43

Or is my 7-month-pg SIL just being a bit...grasping??
Was told today that of course they were expecting the foetus would get christmas presents.
I would like to blame hormones (and first-time-mother-syndrome ).

Oh and of course I won't be buying something for a person not yet born to open on Christmas Day.

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Nemoinapeartree · 04/12/2006 12:55

lmao I am sorry but there are going to be years and years of buying her baby presents you dont buy for them before they are born!!!

TinselgalacticWalrus · 04/12/2006 12:56

I didn't expect presents, but in both of my ptregnancies, I expected extra helpings of cake/chocolate "for the baby"

Agree your SIL is loopey

Nemoinapeartree · 04/12/2006 13:00

meant to say when we had dd on 16th dec last year we didnt even expect any presents for her then but she got a couple og token things like a cot mobile. Am due again just after xmas so should I be sending out bump wish lists??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????

BaileysMilkshake · 04/12/2006 13:01

X-posts....err no!

My bump is due on Saturday and I have bought things for a child I would be expecting to be here by Christmas - please dont be late baby.

However I would feel very uncomfortable if anyone bought anything for an unborn baby as a Christmas gift - sort of tempting fate.

MIL and and Grt Aunt have been buying odd baby bits and knitting etc. But these are just given when next seen or held on to until baby arrives.

Tell SIL you are not comfortable with the idea - as you feel it is unlucky, like bringing a pram inside before baby is born etc!

WonderCod · 04/12/2006 13:08

no
cos hte baby mught havd died fgs
sorry to be blunt

Blu · 04/12/2006 13:09

PregZilla!

octobermum · 04/12/2006 13:09

Bozza

thank you, i glad i'm not the only thinks i was right to be a little bit miffed as you put it.

trixymalixy · 04/12/2006 13:10

She's obviously just very excited about her first LO.

Bit cheeky to tell people to buy unborn baby presents tho!!

My sister did ask me if if I thought people would buy me presents for my bump (due end of Jan), but she meant instead of stuff for me!!!

BaileysMilkshake · 04/12/2006 13:13

Cod has just summed up what I was trying to say in several sentences just in 7 words!

LittleSarah · 04/12/2006 13:19

No no no!

I did actually get some wee hats from my dad's girlfriend my I was pregnant at Christmas but that was totally unexpected.

LittleSarah · 04/12/2006 13:20

when I was pregnant at Christmas... ahem

cupcakes · 04/12/2006 13:24

It does seem like tempting fate. I bought a new changing mat and opened it up and threw away the packaging then felt anxious that I wouldn't be able to return it if something went wrong.

Somebody refered me to me recently as a mother of three and I had to say, er, no - it's not alive till it's actually born.
Good grief, I'm depressing myself today.

BaileysMilkshake · 04/12/2006 13:27

Cupcakes - it's natural - I feel exactly the same. Esp when washing the clothes before baby arries - this time however am just using white stuff from when I had DC1 and none of those were in packs etc!

paulaplumpbottom · 04/12/2006 13:27

I'm not expecting any. People have enough to worry about.

Tommy · 04/12/2006 13:35

DS1 was due on Christmas Day and we got a few things like dummies and stuff that were put in our presents - I guess people thought it was was funny and cute but the joke went a bit sour when he didn't arrive until Januuary!

Tommy · 04/12/2006 13:36

BTW jinglesprunes - I think your SIL is being a bit grasping

deaconblue · 04/12/2006 13:41

No and found it really irritating when MIL bought tonnes of stuff for unborn baby that I had been planning to choose myself in the new year. Isn't it always grasping to ASK for presents???

Mummymonster · 04/12/2006 14:03

No Way!

I am a paranoid sort and I did not feel I had a baby til the midwife waved me off at the mat ward. I would be so offended.

I didn't have anything for the baby; cot, buggy etc until after I brought him home

paulaplumpbottom · 04/12/2006 14:06

Yall really are a superstitious bunch aren't you?

LIZS · 04/12/2006 14:11

Completely mad . Tell her you'll get something when it arrives.

Journey2 · 04/12/2006 14:38

Don't unborn babies get lots of presents when they have arrived into the world? (that's how I remember it!)

Hmm.. can you put it down to first time mother syndrome?

DizzyBinterWonderland · 04/12/2006 14:41

last christmas i was 4 months pregnant and i didn't EXPECT any presents for my bump, but i did get loads, and i mean like toys and things, not just small things. was a bit odd tbh but all the family were just so excited.

yomellamoHelly · 04/12/2006 17:45

Would be too superstitious of something going wrong tbh (even at my stage in pg - I'm expecting ds2 5 days before Christmas). Surely a pampering type gift for mum-to-be would go down much better? The last couple of months pg are just rubbish.

hoxtonchick · 04/12/2006 17:48

weird. BUT my mil bought dd a small elephant for christmas when she was a 12 week foetus in utero . i was furious.....

jenkel · 04/12/2006 17:56

My dd was born in March, I didnt expect anything and didnt get anything. Never heard of anybody buying gifts for an unborn child.