Relatives buying Christmas present for unborn baby

[Caip]

My BIL and his wife have suggested this year that we don't do adult presents and that we just buy for their kids and that they buy something for our baby - which isn't due until mid-April.
I'm not sure how I feel about it, would you want a present for your baby 4 months before the due date?

wouldnt bother me am due in jan and due to not having millions in the bank and like picking my own stuff we have everything for the baby already. family have helped out and bought bits and pieces. i dont believe in bad luck and like to think everything will work out. if it is something useful for you and baby id go for it!

I was due in April 2013 and didn't get anything bought or suggested for the 'bump', last Christmas. I was very uneasy about buying the pram in February, for goodness sake! My Mum saw it as the last Christmas that I'd get just presents for me, sounds a bit like your Mum, Naomilouise1992.

Some relatives gave vouchers and I chose to keep them for buying stuff for the baby.

Up to you, though. If you feel uneasy, them buying it but hanging onto it until you feel comfortable having it in the house is a great compromise, which shouldn't offend anyone!

Umm, I'd be thrilled to get baby stuff we need for Christmas, and I'm not due until 4 June! I think my mom is buying us a pram for Christmas, and I'm thrilled as it's the priciest thing on our list of things to buy.

But then, I'm also used to people having baby showers and registering for baby things and getting loads of gifts before baby is born, it's just how things are done where I'm from, and my mom asked me to make a gift list in the uk for her to order from, so it's not like we won't get to pick the stuff out.

We are also only doing gifts for children this Christmas, but doing a white elephant gift exchange between us adults for fun. I expect we will likely get random unisex baby things, and I don't mind!

Personally, I think it's a lovely idea! I'm due mid April and we have asked for vouchers (John Lewis, Mama's & Papa's) and bits for baby. Both sets of parents have bought baby some presents, it's their way of helping us out.

MIL has bought some stuff for the bump (due in Jan) but it makes me uncomfortable that she's wrapped it up for us to unwrap on the day. Why not just give it to us? Nevermind

I have a similar thing - due in March and my parents whilst wildly excited are quite superstitious about gifts and parents out law are desperate to buy gifts!!
I have asked parents out law to buy me the special nursery paint to paint the cot and a baby monitor. Some how they feel like gifts for us more than an outfit for bump would be!

sorry but I think that's weird. I had a beginning of Jan baby (hideously preg at Christmas) but no one bought my massive stomach a present .

Err, if someone gave me a present for the bump at Chtistmas, well, you could see my response on the preggo rage thread

Family wanted to help us with 'big items' furniture pram etc. But we bought them ourselves as felt cheeky saying 'we want that one' but we've said that they can buy us baby monitor, bottle set etc... So far nothing has materialize so Im sure they will be xmas gifts. But they really are gifts for us as we'd need to buy them anyway.
I find it a difficult situation, we have been told off by our parents for buying the big things that grandparents are supposed to buy. Friends keep saying they'll get us things too (&the books say don't buy too much cos everyone wants to help out!) but what if no one buys anything &nothing is here when baby comes!?

Caip I can empathise. I'm due at the end of feb and I've asked everyone politely to hold back. Like you im superstitious and perhaps im also a little too pessimistic. My mum offered me some money and she kindly agreed to put it into a separate account until the actual birth.

I'm not superstitious at all so it wouldn't bother me my nan has offered to give us the money for the pram which is so, so lovely of her and a family tradition. My parents are making a stocking for the baby (it's their first grandchild so they're very excited) but they've said it's mostly practical stuff so that we've got it there ready in April, rather than being full of clothes. But that's alongside presents for me, according to them.

I think it's nice and I'm very appreciative of it.

I asked for baby related things for Christmas and half the family were happy to and the other half felt it was inappropriate. These things are all very personal. I would rather be given gifts I could use than something for the sake of giving gifts.