Push Presents? Really?
I read a thread recently on a birth board, about Push Presents.
Really?
A present for pushing your baby out?
Surely the fact you have a brand new baby is enough?
I haven't had a birthday present to wake up to for the last two years so expecting a push present is, err, pushing it a bit!
Then there are the women who get the diamonds, and the jewellery, and then there are the women who would be happy for a decent piece of Pate and fresh bread (I think I fall into the latter category, a nice slab of pate and some warm baguette would go down very well indeed!)
What sort of man would think to himself 'When my latest offspring vacates my wifes body, I shall spoil her with gifts!' Men just don't think this way. He believes his push present was the moment he ejaculated and made you preggo! I believe a push present is a concept initiated by some spoilt american housewife who isn't satisfied with the life she already has and demands more than plain old love from her man.
Love means never having to say 'Sorry about the stitches darling, have a bracelet to compensate for the baby inheriting my abnormally large head'.
There is an aspect of perhaps deserving a nice bunch of flowers, or a well written card from your partner, or something thoughtful just to acknowledge that the fruit of his loins has messed up your nethers.
Really?
A present for pushing your baby out?
Surely the fact you have a brand new baby is enough?
I haven't had a birthday present to wake up to for the last two years so expecting a push present is, err, pushing it a bit!
Then there are the women who get the diamonds, and the jewellery, and then there are the women who would be happy for a decent piece of Pate and fresh bread (I think I fall into the latter category, a nice slab of pate and some warm baguette would go down very well indeed!)
What sort of man would think to himself 'When my latest offspring vacates my wifes body, I shall spoil her with gifts!' Men just don't think this way. He believes his push present was the moment he ejaculated and made you preggo! I believe a push present is a concept initiated by some spoilt american housewife who isn't satisfied with the life she already has and demands more than plain old love from her man.
Love means never having to say 'Sorry about the stitches darling, have a bracelet to compensate for the baby inheriting my abnormally large head'.
There is an aspect of perhaps deserving a nice bunch of flowers, or a well written card from your partner, or something thoughtful just to acknowledge that the fruit of his loins has messed up your nethers.
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My dad gave my mum a pair of earrings when I was born - she gave them to me when I turned 21 and they were one of my most treasured possessions.
To me, they remind me that although my parents love me and my mum is my mum, on the day she had me my Dad wanted to do something romantic for the wife he loved.
But I am a sentimental old fool ; )
and what do you think about people hiring photographers to capture the moment of birth forever?!
That ring is also my Dad finding out he was expecting a boy/girl, going to the jeweller, picking one out and keeping it a (badly kept) secret for 9 months. They are symbolic, not all too different to how a wedding ring is: my Mum wears her 'children's rings' (not all of them, I'm one of five!) with her engagement and wedding: we are part of the family that began with the one ring, 30 odd years ago.