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2 Questions-Did your first understand, and did you get a gift from the baby for him/her?

KGF625KGF625 member
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I am just wondering how much your child understood that there was a baby being born or that it was going to be coming home and living with the family! My son will be just 2 when the baby is born.

 I also want to buy a gift from the baby to my son. Did anyone do this? Any ideas? Or did you just get a toy that was of interest of your child?

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Re: 2 Questions-Did your first understand, and did you get a gift from the baby for him/her?

  • memali26memali26 member

    DD1 was just shy of 19 months when DD2 was born and she didn't really understand. We talked about the baby as we got things ready, but she seemed to think she was the baby and all the stuff was for her :P Now that she's 25 months, I think she might understand more, but that could be because she has had a baby sister for 6 months and her friend has a 4 month old baby sister, so it's not abstract anymore.

    We did not get a gift from the baby, we didn't think she'd understand that, but we did buy her a new toy. Just a little doll stroller from Target, something we knew she'd love and would keep her busy once in a while.

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  • howleyshellhowleyshell member

    17 months apart.

    I don't think he understood it much at all.

    I got "gifts" for the toddler but they were to entertain him while he was at the hospital - not for something sentimental from the baby.  He totally didn't understand that certain gifts came from certain people and he viewed the baby more like a pet than a person until the baby started walking so it wouldn't have had much of an emotional impact on him to tell him it was "from" the baby anyway.

    The gifts were things that would keep him busy at the hospital when he visited so a travel magna doodle, a toy cell phone (he was really into them at the time) and a big brother book.  I had a section.  He unwrapped a different gift each day he came to visit.

     

    Our IF journey: 1 m/c, 1 IVF with only 3 eggs retrieved yielding Dylan and a lost twin, 1 shocker unmedicated BFP resulting in Jace, 3 more unmedicated pregnancies ending in more losses.
    Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
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