For those expecting Christmas babies

[BeckyG86]

Hi there.

I have written on other threads but as a little introduction I am 33 and expecting my first baby. Based on my dates I am 8+3 weeks pregnant, which makes my due date Christmas Day. However we paid for an early scan last week and the sonographer said that I was measurig a week behind, which if that is the case my due date could be around New Year's Day. I was told to stick to my dates until I have my 12 week dating scan at the hospital, so I am still going with my dates until then.

As you can see I am in a bit of a limbo between having a 2019 or 2020 baby! I know babies come when they are ready, and based on my dates the latest date I would have my baby would be around 8th January, but baby could arrive early being born before Christmas.

My question to you is (it may be something that you have not even thought about, and it may be silly in one sense, but it has just come in to my head!) are you getting your baby something that can be like a Christmas present in case they arrive on or before Christmas? I don't necessarily mean something with Baby's First Christmas, but something to say that is your Christmas present. In my head earlier I was thinking about how people could say in the future that because they are born around Christmas they buy one present and say its for both your Birthday and Christmas, which I disagree with- as far as I am concerned if the baby was born at any other time of the year they would get a Birthday present and a Christmas present, so it shouldn't be any different if their Birthday is at Christmas time (no one has said this to us, its just things I have heard before). With this in mind I was thinking of buying something as a Christmas present just in case they are here for Christmas, but if they arrive after Christmas they can still have it. I sound silly writing this as I know the baby would be newborn and wouldn't understand what was going on, but morally I think I would feel bad if they didn't get something for Christmas off their parents.

Early days I know, and not exactly something anyone has thought about, I know we have enough to be thinking about!

I'm due on 4 Jan, and that's not even occurred to me. Newborn babies don't appreciate presents!

I'm due similar period. Will your baby not get gifts from others? They won't understand the concept of a present until past 2 years I think. We'll be getting a Jellycat cuddly of some sort for the birth but will have spent enough on pram and crib without spending more on additional gifts they won't appreciate, just my opinion

My friends DD was born on Christmas day, they celebrate it with family on boxing Day and then have a big birthday party in June to celebrate her half birthday with friends. She loves it because it's spread out instead of being just one day!

Newborns really don't need/want/notice gifts but you could always wrap something you'd be buying anyway. A nice outfit, a comforter, a pram toy, a white noise machine or a nice blanket maybe?

I would not think about getting the newborn a particular christmas gift, perhaps an ornament for xmas. I will be more focused on trying to make my older kids christmas as special as I can, especially if we end up having to be in hospital! But as pp said newborns don't notice these gifts. So I would not worry too much about it.

Hi,

I'm 34 and due our very much unplanned but much wanted third on the 23rd December (pending dating scan). Planning on having an outfit and some wrist rattles ready just incase as I know my oldest will want to know why baby had no presents if they arrive on time.

x

We didn't really buy our 6 month old anything for Christmas. This time we'll have a baby of under a month old and we definitely won't buy anything.

Im due Xmas day too. Not even thinking about it. As far I’m concerned Xmas is cancelled this year

My first was born just before Christmas; i wouldn't have thought of buying her a Christmas present that year or the next . I did buy my subsequent children presents for Christmas as they had interested siblings though.

DC2 was due on Xmas Day and arrived on 23rd. Definitely didn't occur to buy a present. DC1 was due in February and got Xmas presents in utero from in-laws. I found it really weird.