Just for fun - what was your 'push present'?

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I'm curious! I've only just come across this term!
What did your partner/husband give you if anything? And for which number baby?

I'm pregnant with my first and our midwife mentioned it in our NCT class, specifically an eternity ring! Apparently it's quite common..? I fit in the 'millennial generation' and apparently have been living under a rock 😂

I always find it funny when people make statements like this with assumed authority 😆

Have heard some people at work mention it... We didn't do that but I think I would have quite liked it! I do love a present though so if it involves me getting a gift I'll be up for it😎

I got a present of my husband. I was stuck in hospital for 4 weeks prior to having my 1st during lockdown. And then my baby came 5 weeks early. He got me some comfy new pjs, some new trainers for my walks with baby and some of my favourite mix & mix. It was lovely but it wasn't a push present as such, poor of a present for a rough 7 weeks.

Why is it funny? It's a recognised social trend which is obvious through common sense as a family struggling to feed themselves aren't going to be able to afford eternity rings or similar. Sorry to have offended you with my opinion, it just seemed obvious to me. I respect your opinion and that of anyone who got a gift.

I first heard about it on that Netflix Australian "Yummy Mummies" series a few years ago. It just made me laugh, I don't know anyone in real life who got a "push present" - but then, I last pushed 28 years ago, so who knows!

I gave birth yesterday. DP brought me some mini eggs and a smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel. I was pleased.

My dad also sent me £1k to buy myself something nice

Yummy Mummies in case anyone needs a laugh.

Fucking hell I've had enough Internet for today. The first three words of the title are JUST FOR FUN!!!!!! Why bother clicking in here to suck all the fun and joy away with your holier than thou "well I didn't need a present because my baby is present enough and my husband appreciates me". Kindly fuck off back to your miserable hole. Good Luck!

He got me a Diet Coke as I couldn’t have it when I was pregnant due to horrendous reflux.

My DH is American and got my a Hermes scarf and a necklace.

The term ‘push present’ is nauseating.

My husband did buy me lovely gifts though, of his own volition.

A beautiful bracelet the first time and diamond studs the second.

A baby?!
Honestly, you don't want a 'push present' you want a partner who pulls
their weight in the house without being asked, who does their share of the boring bits of childcare.

Mine did all the housework and laundry (still does, she's now 7!), had the baby for 3 hours every day so I had a break and slept with her in the spare room one night a week also so I had a break. All of that is worth far more than an eternity ring.

My exh bought me a sapphire and diamond eternity ring when I gave birth to second DC, a son. He told me blue for a boy. I never got a gift when I have birth to our DD two years earlier. The ring did not fit it was too tight and he had to go back and exchange for larger size.

Forgot to add some born 32 years ago and I did not know he was getting it. I would rather have picked my own ring.

My Dad did give my Mum jewellery for my birth though and my brother's (1970s).

I thought it was a bit gross TBH when I found out years later - like it dated from the days when it was the woman's sole function to produce a baby.

Nothing unless a rather sad-looking bunch of garage flowers counts. Otoh, I had a fantastic bouquet of variagated lilies from orange due to a crappy courrier delivering a new phone outside the agreed time when I was about 38 weeks. I needed to go and pick up the cot from where it had been delivered in error.

My best friend got an eternity ring. Thought it was a bit much tbh esp as only been married 18 months. I did get a present but given we share finances and picked it together months later wasn't so much of a present. I had a little girl pendant made with my daughters name and dob to match the necklace I always wear that was my late mother's.

I would have quite happily accepted a present but DP had gone back to uni, I was new in post (so messed up mat leave) and we were very very broke.

His birthday was two weeks later so we splurged for Deliveroo from the burger place we liked- but some local dickhead stole it seconds before I got outside.

So no push present or burgers.

My travel system was delivered late, the box arrived as I was getting in the car to have DC2. We had to stay a little while in hospital afterwards, and his dad (we were together at the time but not anymore) met me with it to bring us home.

Just as well as I thought I was one and done, so had got rid of DC1s stuff and had no other way of taking DC2 home as the box contained the pram, car seat, all the adaptors and the isofix thing!

It's not either a present or a helpful husband 😀 what is this notion that if your husband buys you a gift he is automatically useless?

Oh I love this. Marvellous!

Never heard of that.
sounds like consumerism gone mad as usual. Although wouldn’t say no to a bottle of sav bland

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Because he's at home doing useful things rather than out buying a present?! I'd have been furious if mine had been browsing in jewellers rather than getting stuck in!