Ladies I just found out yesterday that someone created baby registry at one of the stores for my baby without my knowledge. How would you react? I got a little upset and happy at the same time that somebody would do that for me. Personally I would like to know about it and choose the items on the list myself. What do you think?
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I mean, I guess you could ask around? Do you have family or something in this country that could've done it for you? Or anyone close to you that might know?
Showers can be surprises, but they don't have to be. I wouldn't worry too much about it being done without you knowing. If you're unfamiliar with customs and stuff like showers here, they were probably just trying to be helpful. As PPs said, you can always just exchange the stuff you don't want.
Have you told anyone items you were looking at getting?
Maybe they wanted everything to be a surprise and just picked stuff that you wanted?
I would be annoyed if someone did that. This girl I work with told me if I didn't register she was going to do it for me....weird.
This is something else I was wondering.
I have an uber common name, and I can find someone with my name, my due date, but not my area. If all three of those markers in place, I find it highly unlikely it's another person's registry.
OP, that would irritate me as well, but I'm inclined to say you are getting a surprise shower, and if the stuff on the registry is stuff you would probably pick out, odds are, your DH is in on it.
I would register somewhere so you can get the completion coupons, and as a FTM, on the chance people would like to send you gifts. I had a few showers as a FTM, but I also had family that sent gifts after the baby was born and at the baptism, so registries can be helpful even if you don't have a shower. I've had three out of state cousins that I sent gifts to when they had their babies, and I checked their registries first.
Family members did this for a cousin of mine a few months back. She just about as far along too. She didn't have a registry yet, it was something they had put off and family wanted to surprise her.
So viola! they created the registry and had a surprise shower.
I thought it was a little weird, because *I* would want to pick out my own stuff. But she was totally thrilled and loved everything they picked!
I'd say it's good intentions.
Well, I look at it this way: People want to get your gifts, especially for your first baby. If you haven't taken the time to create a registry already, then I can understand someone close to you/wanting to throw you a shower/wanting to make sure you have what you need doing something like this to help others be able to not duplicate EVERYTHING. I mean, I know it's easy to return something, but I *can* see the mindset.
I wouldn't be upset, but I'd be weirded out. Go make your own registry and then direct people who as you for the information to it.
Also, I think it was created by the person who sent you something the other day.
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Also, OP, why didn't you have a registry created yet? At 32 weeks, I'm really surprised about that.