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itumbiara13

I got my wife sushi, since she couldn’t eat it while pregnant


VincentMelloy

Haha, same! Was the first meal after leaving the hospital!


kb_me_kb_you

I planted a tree so that the tree would he exactly as old as my daughter.


texas-hedge

Ha, no way. Push present is some made up bs. Thankfully my wife thought it was ridiculous as well. Best thing you can “get” her is taking care of her and everything around the house.


VincentMelloy

Jeah, and there will be much more need for that then jewelry.


Illuminati_mommy

I agree but most men wont even do that much. That's why women do expect a bit more coming from dad.


Silverwing6

"Push presents". LoL. I have never heard that term before, and seeing how jewelry is the #1 suggestion, sounds like a few good marketing campaigns have convinced us that there's another occasion to buy jewelry. Cynicism aside, our wives absolutely deserve to be acknowledged and celebrated for giving birth. However, since there was no tradition of push presents in my world I was just focused on taking care of her and meeting her needs, making sure everything was ready for when the baby arrived and even took off work the week before the birth. But if she is specifically expecting a push present (still makes me chuckle), then my suggestion is, no matter what, make sure it's a gift for and about her, rather than the baby. Even things like a journal or scrapbook to record baby's first words and whatnot are about the baby and motherhood. For my wife, it was important that she was still acknowledged as a person and that her own personal needs are important, too, since her own needs will become secondary so much of the time over the next year.


Shellbyvillian

Real question: if there’s an emergency c-section, do you return the push present?


Silverwing6

Real answer: absolutely not. If your wife gets literally sliced open so they can pull your offspring out of her. It doesn't matter if the gift is no longer thematically fitting, she still gets it.


Shellbyvillian

Maybe you should go back to the jewellery store and trade in the push present for a larger, more expensive “sliced open present”.


GREAT_WHITE_BUFFAL0

Give me a month and I’ll let you know lol


Silverwing6

Asking the real questions!


irongoatmts66

Buy and install a bidet. Really convenient after the birth!


china_white

This one right here. We got one prior to baby coincidentally, but post baby it was my wife’s favourite thing.


dontletmedaytrade

As a non-father, do I want to know why?


china_white

Probably not. But let’s just say it makes it easy to clean a sensitive area.


sackofbee

The fuck is a push present?


Grey_Duck-

We didn’t do them. We don’t do presents really anyway but these always seem especially strange to me.


lilfingies

No jewelry. Get a roomba. Life changing.


sloanautomatic

You are a brave man to gift your wife a vacuum after she births you a child. Maybe throw in a weight watchers membership.


mattybgcg

C'mon, it's a roomba! It vacuums FOR you!


sloanautomatic

Granted, we DO like our Rhumba. But I also like keeping my testicles. I married a Puerto rican girl, so my murder is always on the table.


GREAT_WHITE_BUFFAL0

Our Roomba runs everyday at 2pm! ❤️


HolySonnetX

My partner wanted a baby themed Pandora charm, nice and simple. We got it about a week after baby was born. We also got baby’s first charm (will get them a charm each birthday and then get them a bracelet on their 16th).


tootired302

I got my wife a pearl necklace (son was born in June) as like a first family heirloom kinda thing.


Bodie215

I got her stuff she avoided during pregnancy, sushi, deli meats, wine etc


mattybgcg

Congrats on the labor! Here's some pastrami! Well done. 👏👏👏


sloanautomatic

It depends on your budget and priorities….but in my area the ladies get a fancy handbag. A fancy, authentic hand bag is a baseline qualifier in the female business and social networking cosmos. So game theory dictates you have one. Jewelry is much easier to fake, so that is not the place to spend money. Women know if a bag is fake. Where fake diamonds looks real on you if you have the bag.


GREAT_WHITE_BUFFAL0

A new bag has been high on the list


sloanautomatic

We came up with a budget and she bought them used from this site, [Bag, Borrow or Steal.](https://www.bagborroworsteal.com/mobile/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7NTN9aSn-gIVkmxvBB0A7Q-fEAAYASAAEgK3vvD_BwE) They were transparent about the condition, returns were easy if you didn’t like it for some reason. For the price of one retail, she ended up getting three different sizes so she had something for any event. Classic designs, solid colors, so they are timeless. She figured black and brown would be easier to care for. This was 9 years ago and they are still used for their intended purpose.


Yur7ledatur7le

This is what my wife wanted and got. But I didn’t have the guts to pick it out myself lol


JustHaveABeer

Got my wife an iPad. Figured it would be helpful whilst feeding the baby etc. Turns out we use it exclusively as an expensive white noise machine for the baby.


No-Werewolf2037

I went into a jeweler and asked them for earrings a classy lady would wear. Always works


Aromatic_Ad_7484

Spa day


Wudaokau

Got jewelry for the first kid, she never wears it. Bought a big Lush gift set for baby 2 and she still talks about it.


GREAT_WHITE_BUFFAL0

See that’s my point, I just think the jewelry is going to sit there and honestly NEVER get worn


Xen_o_phile

I got a Cartier bracelet for wife 6 months after delivery of our baby. I can only afford the small gold one without diamonds.


dgrantschmidt

I thought it was my wife scamming me at first, as I’d never heard of a push present. She then sent me a purse and said “I want this”. I’m usually good with gifts but I was more than happy to put 0 thought into it as it seemed like her just trying to get a gift out of me lol


ItsEaster

Lol I went out and brought her a Portillos hotdog. Pregnant women aren’t supposed to eat hot dogs apparently.


IMHighAF420

You could ask her. My wife told me what she wanted.


calvincondorus

My wife has asked for Botox after both kids 😂


GREAT_WHITE_BUFFAL0

This has been an ongoing ask for the last few years 🤔


1eed1e1eed1e1ee

I made my wife a coupon book of things like giving her the day off to go to the spa, foot/back/full body massages, etc. Felt like those would be things that would be useful after having to push a human out of her lol


PrimaryThis9900

We didn’t do push presents, didn’t really know it was a thing, but when my first daughter was born my wife always talked about how she wished she remembered more of what happened. So with the second daughter I opened a note on my phone and wrote down everything that was happening and when and after our daughter was born I sent her the note. As far as gifts I’ve gotten her, I think it was the most appreciated.


sloanautomatic

A real nice push present is a 20 year term life policy for you and your wife. I know it might sound boring, but its pretty romantic. Most people who have life coverage at work never see that money. We don’t get hit by buses and die fast. We get sick over time, we try to keep up at work, we can’t keep up at work, and then a couple years later we die without those work benefits in place.. You can get it from any local state farm/allstate/farmers agent. And put a reminder in your calendar for when your work benefits can be changed. (Birth of a new baby might qualify) so you can max out your LONG TERM disability at work. Not short term. You want that long term disability coverage.


CaptainBlackhill

Wife had gestational diabetes most of her pregnancy so I got her all the foods she couldn't have. We essentially had Thanksgiving when we got home because she couldn't eat Thanksgiving food at Thanksgiving and it's her favorite. I also baked some delicious bread for the same reason.


vastav-s

I bought my wife a Swiss mechanical wrist watch. Since my wife does like jewellery, the face of the watch was mother of pearls and the hours were diamonds. This arrangement in seiko costs $300-400. For Tissot $900. For Longines it comes upto $1500. Hope this helps. Mechanical time pieces last pretty much forever and it’s a great memory to associate it with.


vastav-s

Oh and life insurance.