Thank you gifts

YBnormal85 · March 2014

I am curious what people have given as thank you gifts for fertility drs, midwives, obs, nurses...whoever really lol. I am working on coming up with ideas for those on our birth team. So far I have started decorating a tote bag to say Keep calm and call the midwife, for our midwife. And I plan to pick up essential oils for my doula and I got a camera lens mug for our birth photographer. Any input or ideas would be awesome! I have a midwife, her apprentice, my doula and my photographer on my birth team.

rkbo · March 2014

I couldn't imagine buying my fertility dr. a gift if I get pregnant...I imagine the $9k that I've spent in her office in the last 3 months is gift enough! LOL If anything, a nice thank you note.

Manada · March 2014

mmm ---- I don't know if we'll give a gift to our RE necessarily, but I can imagine we will send a cookie or fruit bouquet to the clinic for the blood techs, nurses and admin staff who made a big difference in our experience for us.

For the midwife -- well, she's also a friend, so I imagine we will do friend-things for them, maybe a dinner at home, or - if we have a chance, maybe make her some homemade food and freeze it or something.

I used to work for midwives and while the cookies, candy and stuff delivered to the clinic was awesome for the staff -- they would rarely get a chance to enjoy it. They would also get lots of gift cards and coffee mugs, or trinkets about birth or mothers (nice ideas, but after awhile one only needs so many woman goddess pendants). I think your tote bag idea is a great one though! I imagine perhaps a nice water bottle or something would be a good idea, or a gift card for itunes, a bookstore, or something like that -- or even funky socks or something. In our clinic one of the best gifts we ever got was a bird made out of hundreds of pieces of folded paper by a Peruvian client, it was amazing and so beautiful, we loved it and thought of her often when people would ask about it.

YBnormal85 · March 2014

I understand about the fertility Dr. For him I am planning a thank you card and a visit at the clinic.

And I totally agree about not wanting to give too many little trinket type gifts. I was thinking perhaps soaps or candles. Something that they would use up eventually.

mwagner25 · March 2014

Our L&D nurse during our 36 hours of labor was fantastic and deserved a thank you. We just brought some sweets up for the nurses. For our OB and fertility clinic we sent them a holiday card with his newborn photos on it to say thanks. I wouldn't have done anymore than that. A card would be plenty I think.

JGY · March 2014

I was dying to do something for all of the clinic and hospital staff, so I baked muffins and delivered them with a personal visit and a card. I mentioned, by name, the people who played a critical role for us and then also thanked the rest of the team.

For our Doula, I framed a photo of the two of us just after the birth.

For our Midwife, who became a friend, we did something a lot more special. We got him a gift certificate to the local theatre venue (since I know he and his wife enjoy going), and another gift certificate to the restaurant in that theatre. They ended up inviting us to join them for brunch. It was awesome. The reason behind this particular gift is that our midwife had his group call him when I went into the hospital. He came in, though he wasn't on the schedule, and sent the other midwives home. He stayed the entire time and essentially lost a weekend that he should have had at home with his wife. I wanted to give them a gift to enjoy together to "Reclaim" that lost weekend.

For the record I think that what we did in all cases (except perhaps our Doula) was completely over the top.

2MamazInSeattle · March 2014

Nice ideas! Honestly, my RE will love a heartfelt note over any 'thing' - but I did think of sending over some flowers or a goodie basket when LO is born for the staff. Otherwise, I'm also a fan of 'consumable' gifts - soap, food, etc. is always nice.

I think the little items you have picked out along with a nice note is perfect!

YBnormal85 · March 2014

Just finished this

redrockmama · March 2014

I might have to steal this idea for our midwife

newmompeanut · March 2014

I always meant to bake some muffins or something to take with me to the hospital for all the staff that were there for us, but I never ended up doing it.

We did end up getting my OB, who we both became very close with and who was there for me personally during the pregnancy/separation/coming out stage, a bottle her favorite wine. She had mentioned that this certain wine was her favorite and one day in the store we saw it so we picked it up.

ball.and.chain · March 2014

@JGY, forget gifts, my mind is blown that you had a male midwife! I have never come across one before. Go him!

JGY · March 2014

ball.and.chain said:

@JGY, forget gifts, my mind is blown that you had a male midwife! I have never come across one before. Go him!

Yeah, it's funny, back when I was a Doula I attended a birth with him. I was so impressed with him, that I switched to him for my annual care in the hopes that some day I would have a baby myself and he would be my midwife. Fast forward 7 years and that's exactly what happened. And the kicker was that the woman whose birth I attended all those years back, was my Doula for my birth!

He was a nurse in the military (Navy, I believe), and apparently the other nurses there encouraged him to get his masters in midwifery because he had a really great rapport with the women in the postpartem units.

He is definitely a one of a kind guy. I really enjoy him and was so grateful that he made sure to be at our birth even though he wasn't the one on call.

ETA - added more details ...

2MamazInSeattle · March 2014

@ball.and.chain, don't you watch The Mindy Show? The two male midwives are her enemies!

ball.and.chain · March 2014

2MamazInSeattle said:

@ball.and.chain, don't you watch The Mindy Show? The two male midwives are her enemies!

Nope, but now I want to even more...

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