# Does mum deserve a gift following birth of baby?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mum-deserve-a-gift-following-birth-of-baby/469435>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 24, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mum-deserve-a-gift-following-birth-of-baby/469435 "2008-10-24T21:49:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mum-deserve-a-gift-following-birth-of-baby/469435/21 "2008-10-26T08:24:36Z")

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“Push Present”? ew. not sure I like the sound of that!

When I had my girls, someone told my husband he was supposed to get me gift…something with the birthstones of mother and child…so he got me a ring with a small ruby(July) in the centre for me and and emerald(May) on each side for the girls. It was a lovely gesture really but we were both like “ok, I guess this is what people do…?”

I remember all I really wanted after giving birth was FOOD! I hadn’t eaten all day when I went to the hospital and because they were born by c-section, I wasn’t allowed to eat for what seemd like DAYS! I was bribing passers-by to bring me ice chips because that was all I was allowed.

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