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June 2011 Moms
luvbeingmom
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has your dh's work done anything for baby?
luvbeingmom
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just curious...
i know at my job if we had a guy in the office who was becoming a new dad, his team would throw them a little party at the office and get them gifts or one large gift card
with ds2, dh's work collected about $500 for us... oddly enough after that for dd1, even though he was at the same job, they did nothing lol
i'm pretty sure we won't get anything from dh's new job now, but it would be nice!! lol
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Re: has your dh's work done anything for baby?
They haven't, and I don't know whether or not they will. He's in a new department so he doesn't know what to expect. I know at my job (primarily women) we look for any excuse to have a shower, or give gifts so we all chip in for a big gift, or lots of little gifts. When our directors wife had their baby in December we bought him a lot of clothes for 6-12 months knowing from conversation that they didn't have any yet. We also got them an exersaucer and some adorable luggage for LO when he's a bit older.
They didn't really register for much so we had to get stuff on our own and everyone else wanted to get gifts rather than a GC. If I were at a point in our pregnancy that I was telling people I would have suggested a GC as the main gift, but no one was listening to me!
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We got a $100 gift card and probably 5-6 outfits and other little goodies from his co-workers. There are 2 pregnant women at his work due around when I am due, so they did a big joint party for the two girls and my hubby. He was a little embarrased i think
My hubby is an elementary teacher and works with mostly women so they are throwing us some type of shower before school on Wednesday. They have been so sweet about it. They planned a day that I could make it and asked my hubby how he felt about it. His only request wad that he didn't want to open a ton of gifts in front of the whole school. So we figure they will be giving us a gift card to BBRU and just having a get together with food. That will be waay more comfortable for both of us!
Nope! Which is really annoying, because DH and I work at the same place. I've worked here for 7 1/2 years, and they've done absolutely NOTHING for us, except give me grief for extra pee breaks.
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Nope. They did nothing when DD was born and i expect nothing but time off w/o hassle this time. DH works for 'family' I quote that because the manager is his BiL and its his dad's company. BiL and DH's sister bought us a gift and the other guys he works with (BiL's brother's) bought us gift cards. But that was because we're friends outside the music store. There was nothing given as a gift on the behalf of all the staff at the store.
DH and I actually met when I was working for the same company out in Kansas City 4 years ago, so I've always been pretty close with his co-workers. They actually threw me not DH a shower back in April. Like a PP said, I got more goodies from DH's co-workers than from my own, and I work with a much larger team!
Dh works for a large corporation who will not do anything for him. I don't think his employees will do anything for him. I think it would be nice if the company did something but I don't think it should fall on his employees to do something.
My company is a small company and they won't do anything for me because the owner of the company doesn't have a soul and my boss isn't exactly warm and fuzzy either.
Sadly I don't think DH's work will do anything. It's sad to me because he's busted his a$$ for them for over 3 years now. I wish they'd just get him a card or something, it would mean so much to him!
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My group generally has everyone chip in what they want, and then someone will go and buy a bunch of stuff off of the person's registry, for their first child, whether the person who works here is a man or woman.
I'm not sure if DH's group will do anything; I'm guessing not. It's a group of entirely men (though they just hired two girls - both straight out of college, so they're not in the mindset to start any traditions like this), and others in his group have had kids since he's been there and he hasn't mentioned them doing anything for them. Though, being a guy, even if they did do anything, not sure DH would mention it.
Nope. And we work together.
DH has been with the department longer than me. When he started we already had DD1. I was pregnant with DD2 when I was hired and they didn't do anything for me or him when I had her.
I assume it's becuase it wasn't my first baby because we've had a "shower" for every other woman who has had a baby since I started, but they were all having their first.
I am still bitter about it and now we never give money when they are collecting. If it's someone I like then I buy a gift myself, but I don't get involved in the office gift.
Oh yeah! They gave us an amazing shower. It put my work shower to shame.
It was a potluck and there was so much food. I believe they gave us close to a thousand dollars worth of stuff. I know for sure about 700 off our registries (including a MamaRoo and Pack N Play) and we got a lot of extra stuff that we didn't register for.
We were truly blessed and extremely grateful.
No. He's a radiology fellow at a large academic medical center.
Given his schedule, I consider the fact that he'll actually get a few days of paternity leave a gift in itself!!!!
Many of his coworkers will be going to his diaper party and many of the wives were invited to my shower (now granted, we do have a close group that we hang out with on occasion).
At my company, whenever someone has a baby (whether it's the mother or the father that is employee) they usually get a pretty big gift card (and this includes for adoptions...one of our VPs and his wife just adopted their second child from Russia).