Just wondering....

[Staceiz19]

Hey girls

i've seen a few threads where people are getting presents for their older children when the baby is born from the baby and i was just wondering why that is?

Is it because the baby will be getting alot of things from people and to make the older child feel closer to the baby or..?

 

[Becky10]

My DD is just 2yrs and I've bought her a little puzzle from her new baby brother. I think that being so young and the only baby and grandchild for the last 2yrs, suddenly having all attention on someone else will be hard and true also, the baby will be getting lots of presents. It might start to breed resentment of the baby, so I thought it couldn't hurt and might get the realtionship off to a better start! I'm going to try an make sure that my DD sees the baby as something she can show off when we have visitors and make sure that they talk to her first and she shows them the baby etc.

 

[iwanta8a8y]

My sister has just had her baby and they bought their other child a present from them and the her new baby brother so that she wouldnt feel left out and get jealous as the new baby/parents will be getting lots of attention and pressies from everyone and the other child could feel very left out. I think it is a lovely idea. x

 

[shyfox1988]

i did it when i had my youngest son, so my eldest son didnt feel left out,

and i will be doing it for my sons again when my lil princess is born, id never want my boys feeling left out and upset xXx

 

[Anna_due Dec]

I've not done it before but this time around i thought i might get my 1, 4 and 8 year olds "i'm a big sister/brother" t-shirts. I think they'll feel pretty special wearing them. I guess it just helps them feel involved and important but having said that i don't think they cared the other times i didn't get them anything...they did get a sibling afterall

 

[mammym]

Our son is three and we are planning on getting him the 'I'm a big brother' t shirt from mothercare and also a Woody from toy story figure off the baby. I don't want him to feel left out. He has a special teddy (a soft pooh bear tigger toy, called Roe Roe,why he calls it that we have no idea!) which he has had since birth and when he was away at blackpool with his granda he won the exact same one in the 'grabber' machine, he now keeps new tigger in his bed to look after for his little brother or sister which is really sweet of him, so I think it'll be nice if he thinks baby has brought him something too.

 

[wantingno.2]

I've bought ds something from baby, partly so he think thats the baby has been nice enough to get him something and partly yes because everyone will be coming with presents for baby that he may feel left out. We have tried to keep him as involved as possible but i think he's a little worried about what will happen when baby does arrive and he dosent really like to talk about it for long.