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Firstmoms... a ? for you

Married3.22.03Married3.22.03
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Of course, anyone else feel free to give their input, but I'm specifically looking for firstmoms to chime in here.  :)

Our daughter's first birthday is coming up soon.  Over the past year, I've thought of several ideas of what to give her firstmom... I want to give her something special to let her know that we appreciate and are thankful that she gave birth to our daughter last year and that we love her.  We have an open relationship, but don't live terribly close to each other, so we've only seen each other once since placement.  We do email on a semi-regular basis, and have talked on the phone once.

So, ideas I've had but don't know which is best (or you can say none of the above if they all suck, LOL!)

A Shutterfly book (however, she has access to a private blog page that is updated constantly, and we also send a ton of pics with each update)

A collection of home videos from the past year

Something with DD's birthstone

One of those "first year" calendars completed with all the milestones of DD's first year

A Christmas ornament with DD's picture (sent her one last year as well)

Or... something else??

 Input, please!!  :)

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Re: Firstmoms... a ? for you

  • Mrs.TeddyMrs.Teddy member
    my sister is a birthmother, we/she has an open adoption with my nephew & hsi family. He is 8 now. Although we have access to him & photos she loves any pics she ets of him & particularly love the idea of the photobuck. One year his mom gave her adoption jewellery, which I know they both treasure. Last year for his birthday she had a photo montage DVD made for her that had their story first there were words something about how she had a dream and a prayer and then came a girl so full of love etc.....and had photos from his irth up until now. Its beautiful.  WE burned several copies and each have one. I think she would cherish anyting that you gave her.
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  • MayDayGirlMayDayGirl member

    I would do the video compilation. Since she's only seen her daughter 1 time since birth, a video would really put her personality into view for her.  Pictures are wonderful, but they leave so much to the imagination (noises, faces, giggles etc).

    But I may be biased cuz I'm a professional video documenter Stick out tongue 

    I just love videos!  But the photo book is a good idea too! 

    Married on 3.20.2004. It took 30 month, 2 failed adoptions and IVF for our first miracle. We have had 9 foster kids since he was born and started the domestic adoption process when he was 10 month old, we had 4 failed matches in that time. After our daughter was born we brought her home and spent 2 weeks fearing we might lose her because of complications that came up. But Praise God all went through and she is ours forever! Expecting again after IVF Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
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  • gingerfamilygingerfamily member
    I like the video idea. 
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  • marrymemylovemarrymemylove member
    They're all beautiful ideas. I espcially love photobooks so I am biased.
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  • TTCgradstudTTCgradstud
    I'm not a firstmom, but I have been thinking about your ideas (and filing them away for possible future use).  What about a slight combination of the photobook and the "first ear calendar?  You could create a book for her of baby's first year and include the dates and a picture of when the major events happened (or close to it). So she would have a book to always keep and still a nice chronology of your daughter's first year. 
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