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Ideas for Christmas with Newborn

11 replies

minniemummy0 · 27/08/2017 17:59

I've suddenly had a dawning realisation that Christmas is not that long after my first baby! My due date is 14th October - So she's be 10-12 weeks old. This is also going to be my first Christmas properly living with my fiancé, I've previously always lived with my parents who organised everything!

We will still go to my parents for Christmas Day so do not have to worry about the Christmas dinner at all. But I'm thinking I should organise presents before baby is due! And decorations, stock the cupboards with Christmas essentials and at least have a plan in place!!

What do you buy a few-week old for presents?!! Do you take them to see Father Christmas?!! Any other traditions essential????

Thanks for any advice!

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BendydickCuminsnatch · 27/08/2017 18:02

Some nice ideas on my thread from earlier on this week :) here

Definitely a good idea to start buying now, I've only bought for about a quarter of my list so far! But remember, there is always Amazon Prime :)

I really would not bother taking a newborn to see Father Christmas.

Afreshstartplease · 27/08/2017 18:04

I gave birth to dc4 last october

We bought a few presents things he would need later on mainly so older dc didnt ask why santa hadnt brought him anything

A newborn wont care about santa but perhaps look at traditions you may like to start

BendydickCuminsnatch · 27/08/2017 18:13

Oh yes, tradition-wise, I take a pic of the kids by the tree each year, and display last year's pic in a frame beside the tree :) So this year I'll take a pic of 8 week old and 2 year old together, and display last year's pic of DS as a 1 year old :) The pics from previous years go into an album of their own :)

Annwithnoe · 27/08/2017 18:16

You snuggle up warm indoors, with the perfect excuse not to brave the crowds or the miserable weather!

Personally I'd keep decorations simple for the first year so you have lots of time for snuggling and Christmas movies. You can get wonderful Christmas trees with fibre optic lights and beaches that just fold down as you take it out of the box. I can't justify the expense or replacing our perfectly good jigsaw puzzle of a tree and tangled snarl of lights but oh if I were staring out ... sigh

Christmas music and a couple of Yankee candles will go a long way to creating a lovely atmosphere.

Fill the freezer with single portion meals that can be heated up, and stock up on lots and lots of high energy Christmas goodies in case you're breastfeeding. If you're not you'll still need lots of empty sweet tubs and biscuit tins for storing all the fiddly toys as baby gets older. Grin

Online shopping is your friend. You can even get it all wrapped and delivered without leaving your living room.

You'll probably have a better idea closer to Christmas of what you don't have for the baby, so relax for now until you see what presents you get when the baby is born.

Make sure you have the batteries charged in your camera for Christmas Day!

Afreshstartplease · 27/08/2017 18:20

Oh and enjoy an intact christmas tree

TiffanyAtBreakfast · 27/08/2017 23:56

A tiny reindeer / snowman / elf outfit for the littleun is obviously a must. Amazon or eBay.

TittyGolightly · 28/08/2017 00:01

My DD was born the same week as yours is due.

We went away with friends and did bugger all for Xmas, just as in previous years. The world didn't end. Nor did it the next 6 xmases. ;)

Relax.

TittyGolightly · 28/08/2017 00:03

In other words nothing is "essential". It's all made up anyway!

OhOurBilly · 28/08/2017 11:22

DS was born 28th Nov, I still put the tree up first week of December. Did shopping online to be delivered. He went to visit Father Christmas at 4 days old. I don't remember what presents he got, I was in a fog of knackered by that point. But he did have some sweet little outfits, elf, reindeer, snowman etc.

Christmas is lovely with a newborn.

BiddyPop · 28/08/2017 14:18

I would think about things that are useful over the year to come (developmental toy or 2, a walker, that sort of thing) as things that you and any other relatives looking for ideas could get.

I would also get a nice copy of a classic storybook for them, as part of their "first Christmas" presents - you can read the stories now, and over the coming years, but they will always have that book as their first Christmas present. Something like the Beatrix Potter collection or AA Milne stories etc.

DD actually turned up on Boxing Day, but I had a few things like a small nappyrash cream for the nappybag, a soother, teething ring and a bottle, which I was ready to put in a stocking if she turned up before Christmas, just to make a stocking.

I agree about stocking freezer with single portion meals. Both for immediately after the birth (when DH may be looking after you both) and Christmas (when it may get a bit frantic with lots of people wanting to visit). Hopefully you will have got into a semblance of a routine by Christmas, but try to do one large batch of a meal you like every week, with at least 2 single portions leftover, and freeze those. It only takes a small amount of extra chopping etc when you are already doing it, but is a big help later. And having a choice of meals means you could both eat the same thing or different things, and single portions means that when DH is having his Christmas party, you can feed yourself a favourite, and when 5 unexpected visitors descend and need dinner, you can take out extra portions and they will defrost faster!

A Christmas onesie would be nice - but expect it to get dirty quickly (so take photos fast when you get it on!). But not essential either. It might be better to get a set of Christmassy bibs instead that you'd get more use from (and possibly again next year - a onesie you definitely won't for this DC!).

PumpkinSpiceEverything · 28/08/2017 14:28

My 2nd is due mid November and our in-laws live 4+ hour drive away... we've decided to stay home and if they want to come to us, great, but we're going to book a meal at a nice casual local pub with good food and not put anything on ourselves (except maybe a sandwich platter and starters from Costco to take the stress out of it). I highly recommend booking out to eat somewhere - the brilliant thing about newborns is that if you time a feed right you can probably guarantee that they'll sleep through the meal my toddler on the other hand is a completely different nightmare

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