Ilham Ina

My father always gave my mother new mom jewelry, unfortunately all I ever got when I had a baby was a bunch of bananas, if I was unlucky and if I was lucky I didn’t even get a visit. It is tradition in some countries to give new mother jewelry, my mom had three children. With the first she was given an eternity ring, with the second (me) she was given a marquisette watch, and with the third she was given a gold locket. While my brother and I were at home being fed on baked beans and toast by my father, as this was the only thing he knew how to cook.

These items together with charm bracelets, diamond earrings, Tiffany & Co items, are all great ideas if you are going to give your wife a gift of jewelry after she gives birth. This is not always expected, and although I thought something would be nice when I gave birth, I was blessed by being married to a particularly unromantic and unimaginative husband, who eventually became known as the “seed” donator. Although I must give him his due, my babies were both premature, so he had to rush out and buy all the furniture and stuff for the first baby.

Actually I am not so hard hearted, men do thank their wives for giving birth and quite rightly so. Many sensibly young women these days are having babies much later and my daughter is a case in point. She had her first baby a little over a year ago and she turns thirty this year, she is old by my standards and young by many of her friends standards, to be a new mother. But if it had been up to her, she still wouldn’t have had a baby yet.

She wasn’t ready when this one came, but caved into her husband’s wheedling for a child, and agreed to get pregnant. Fortunately they had a girl (he wanted one, as he is from a family of men only) because I can’t see her having another child for a very long time, if ever.

Now to get back to the point, he wanted the baby sooner than she wanted to start a family, so he has to pay for it, right, I am right! This is where the push present comes in. In my daughter’s case, she would have loved to push him for a high priced present, but she dared not, as she got her push present while he was still trying to get her to make a baby. She thought it might be a bit much to expect another $10 000 diamond so soon.

Fortunate she did this, because after she became a mother, she lost her mind and the ring. So at least she had had some time to enjoy it. Had she received any jewelry after the birth of her child, she would have had no time to enjoy it as she more than likely would have lost it before she even got a chance to wear it. I am not advocating that this is the best way to go about things, but just give it some thought; it might make the most sense.

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