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chiboo9 · February 2014

I'm finally on a computer and was gonna post my intro on the 'first time you posted' thread. But found this post instead about push presents.

https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/9004489/push-present/p1

Did anyone end up getting a push present?

arlingirl · February 2014

Just the baby...and I didn't push. Well, I did once and they made me stop. Does that count??

arlingirl · February 2014

I never figured out how to find my first post the easy way...??

jackson290721 · February 2014

H actually did get me a bracelet. I totally forgot about that. I never wear jewelry anymore.

chiboo9 · February 2014

DH actually did get me a push present. He got tickets to see Michael Buble in concert (I love him so much). He got floor seats so they cost an arm and a leg. BF'ng didn't work out for us and we ended up selling the tickets for formula money. We made a profit from selling them on StubHub.

Best push present ever.....?

jackson290721 · February 2014

Rmnam1 said:
I got a "push present" with ds1. But I never considered it that. DH surprised me with a ring with ds1 birthstone right before I delivered (my wedding band didn't fit anymore). He did it on his own, not from me asking him for something. This LO I got a baby.

Yeah this is how mine was. I didn't ask, totally surprise. And the bracelet had her birth stone.

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fabk · February 2014

I pushed for 6 + Hrs and no push present. I now feel a little bit ripped off. :-w

gutsymama · February 2014

Nope.

NKF312 · February 2014

Earrings, and he wrote dd a beautiful letter and bought her a Swarovski charm bracelet with a key charm, and birthstone charm, in his letter he mentioned that the key symbolized from the moment he laid eyes on her, she had the key to his heart .. Sweetest thing ever

thegoodpotato · February 2014

No, but he got me a beautiful emerald eternity-style band to wear when I couldn't fit my wedding set. But I was still hugely pregnant.

mrshudson618 · February 2014

I got some Dairy Queen. I was pretty happy with that.

emandia · February 2014

No and I hadn't even heard of push presents until this board.

Caitable25 · February 2014

He got me a necklace with Liams birthstone. I was shocked. like beyond shocked. i dont wear jewelery but I wear it everyday. I love it.

sdtchica13 · February 2014

Hell yes I did, and I don't feel at all bad about it, lol! With Corri, I got a pair of pearl and diamond earrings I had my eye on for months. With Gavin, we were in the mall about a month before I gave birth and DH bought me my KitchenAid Stand Mixer...he had been asking me about a push gift, so I told him that could be it, since I really didn't need/want anything at the time. Since the stand mixer was my push present, I find it extremely funny that Gavin (the reason for said present) managed to pee into it during his first bath, lol!

Also, can I just say that I hate when people get sanctimonious about push presents and claim "the baby is the present". Um, sure, the baby can be the present for DH since he didn't have to do any of the work growing it and bringing it into this world...I'd like something for doing all of the dang work!

[Deleted User] · February 2014

Maybe I'll pretend my fitbit was my push present, it's the most useful "jewelry" I've ever owned

aehamilton13 · February 2014

I got a few beads for my Pandora (which I know everyone here hates

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chiboo9 · February 2014

aehamilton13 said:

I got a few beads for my Pandora (which I know everyone here hates )

There's a Pandora hate here?!? I LOVE my Pandora bracelet! I got myself a Ruby birthstone charm shortly after LO was born.

babyQ2013 · February 2014

My DH got me a diamond necklace. We were at dinner with friends and he slides a box across the table with a beautiful card telling me that I was the center and the strength of our family. It was really sweet and a total surprise. I used to wear it every day until LO learned to pull it while nursing!

SMac85 · February 2014

DS2 ended up being born 2 weeks early in June. DH got me a pearl bracelet from Tiffany's since that is the birthstone for June. He also added a heart charm to my Tiffany's bracelet with Cruz engraved on it to match Matteo's charm.

Pink724 · February 2014

Nope. I got to be a sahm, which is what I wanted.

TheLittleRedM · February 2014

I didn't even know this was a thing. He gave me a couple letters a couple hours before we decided to head to the hospital. One was for me and one was for Noah. He had written them while deployed in case he didn't come back.

atlvol · February 2014

Yes, it was a complete surprise. He got me a diamond necklace. He had to give it to me before he wanted to though, because he hid it in our guest room closet. We had done some organizing and ended up putting too much on a shelf, that ripped out of the wall one week before DS was due. I went into the closet in a fury and started throwing stuff into the room when I came across the bag from the jewelry store. Oops! I felt like an ass.

Lelo2006 · February 2014

I got diamond stud earrings

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Lelo2006 · February 2014

TheLittleRedM said:
I didn't even know this was a thing. He gave me a couple letters a couple hours before we decided to head to the hospital. One was for me and one was for Noah. He had written them while deployed in case he didn't come back.

This took my breath away.

sdtchica13 · February 2014

Oh, and in my case, they were both "cut presents", since I had c-sections, lol!

PrimRoseMama · February 2014

I feel like my best present (aside from Alex of course) was having my Dad there to share it with me.

I guess the material gift I got was our keurig? Though we had been planning to buy one for a while.

sdtchica13 · February 2014

llmg0715 said:

sdtchica13 - huge boner for you!

Bahahah, thanks!

TheLittleRedM · February 2014

@Lelo2006 Thank you. It gave me a good cry. Mine was a lot of crossed out things because he said nothing he wrote felt accurate about his feelings so he only had a line or two that wasn't crossed out. It's still my favorite letter from him. Noah's was a novel and DH said he never got it finished before he came back.

emikat · February 2014

No push present here. I bought myself a pretty red crystal heart necklace with a snake around it (for year of the snake). I guess that was my gift to myself.

Bmore721 · February 2014

We bought a new house 2 weeks before LO was born. Does that count?

martyn17 · February 2014

I had bought my mom a necklace with all of our birthstones on it, and for my 30th birthday she bought be a necklace with my husband and my birthstones.

In the hospital she gave me a ruby stone to add to my necklace (its kind of a charm necklace). So I guess I got a "push present" from my mom

I also bought her a ruby to add to hers.

MRads · February 2014

If I would have known LO would have been a June baby, I might have pushed for a push present. But I don't like Julys birth stone, so I didn't. I might push for pearl earrings for Mother's Day, and say it is bc we have a June baby.

Edit: H asked me if I wanted Ruby jewlery as a present before the baby came and I said no. But if he would have asked if I wanted pearl jewlery, I probably would have said yes.

lancomechica · February 2014

I got a Burberry bag. I already have my push present picked out for the next LO if we are lucky enough to have another

lancomechica · February 2014

I also bought myself several...I'm pregnant and getting really fat gifts. 2 pair of Prada's.
Husband also got me a bracelet from Tiffany for Christmas engraved with "Best Mom Ever"

queenbone · February 2014

Nope, it's still not a thing around here.

He did just buy me a new sewer line and paid for decommissioning an undisclosed cesspool on our property. He's good to me!

klepa20c · February 2014

my baby aspirated meconium and had to spend 10 days in the NICU. She is completely fine now but at the time I was devastated. She got antibiotics through an IV which they kept having to move to new veins and she was a hard stick. One day I was watching them reinsert the IV and I just lost it when she started crying because it really sucks to watch your baby in pain (as you all know from shots haha). My husband went out and got me a bracelet with an "A" charm on it because he felt bad that I was so upset. i kind of think of that as my "push present" and I haven't taken it off since. LO loves to play with the "A" charm

ashie624 · February 2014

Nope. I hadnt even heard of such a thing til a friend had her baby last February. I didnt need anything. Plus the money we had was so I could take 3 months off. I guess that was my present..being able to take the three months.

shara3333 · February 2014

We were losing my salary so I asked he not get me one (it is a "thing" here in NYC area) and instead write me a letter/story about the day and his emotions. It's beautiful. I did get really nice stacking rings I wanted for Xmas (each band has diamonds in it) and I think that was kind of a push present also.

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