Push Present?

[Monica]

May I return my push presents?  They are driving me freaking insane.

Do you really want them going back where they came from??

I got them from the hospital.  I will return them there. 

[GeekMom]

I'd have to go all the way back to Guatemala. Too much work. 

[LadyinRed]

I guess I'm alone in the fact that I got (and asked for) a push present. With #1 I asked, but didn't get, until our anniversary later that year. Then he gave me a combined anniversary/push present gift of diamond and pearl earrings and necklace. With #2 I was pretty cranky throughout the pregnancy, being my 2nd baby in 3 years after two miscarriages. I told DH that some form of appreciation that sparkled would be well recieved and he gave me a diamond necklace with two hearts to symbolize our boys.

IDK, I just think that pregnancy and birth are really hard on a woman and its a nice gesture for the father to give her a token of appreciation for what she went through. It doesn't have to be any thing expensive or fancy, just a thoughtful trinket or flowers or something, ykwim?
I don't hold with demanding or asking for the gift either, even though I did it. If I didn't ask, DH would never think of it in a thousand years. Hes just not the gifty sort.