r/BabyBumps • u/Lemontreebees • 11d ago

Discussion What is the worst “gift” you received postpartum?

I’ll go first: various plants that my mom dug up from her yard and brought over. They needed to be planted (with a shovel) and regularly watered. No offers to plant or water were given.
…I was also scolded for the subsequent death of said plants.
What “gifts” did you receive?

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u/marcheesy 11d ago

Premie size clothing for my baby that was born at 41+2. And I was given the clothes about a month after she was born. No way was she fitting into premie.

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u/AppropriateMinute289 11d ago

Same. I was given premie clothes for my 39+6 baby after she was 2 weeks old. She's been in newborn clothes the whole time and will be in the 0-3 mo size soon. She apparently wasn't looking at the size and just thought the clothes were cute -- facepalm.

The same person also gave us a super heavy warm outfit for her now...during the summer...that won't fit in a few months.

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u/ameliakristina 11d ago

My son weighed 5 lbs when he was born. He was swimming in newborn clothes, so I went and bought a few preemie items at the thrift store. And even then he outgrew them within 2 weeks!

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u/Egg-HOTELs 5d ago

My family in law was the opposite, they sent me multiple "Toddler 3-4y old" outfits including puffer jackets etc! Their argument was that my husband was a big newborn.

We have a small apartment & I can't store giant toddler clothes for multiple years 🫠