Saw something pop up about Hailey Bieber and a push present. Honestly, it kinda made me chuckle and then sigh a little bit. It just got me remembering how things were when my kids were born, feels like a lifetime ago now.
Push presents weren’t really on my radar back then. Maybe they existed, but not like now where it feels like every celebrity getting one makes the news. When my wife and I had our first, the biggest ‘push’ was just getting through the delivery and figuring out how not to mess up this tiny little person we were suddenly responsible for.
My experience? Well, it wasn’t about diamonds or fancy bags, that’s for sure. We were young, totally broke, and running on zero sleep. I think my ‘push present’ to her was taking over diaper duty for a solid week, maybe fetching endless glasses of water, and trying my best not to complain about how tired I was. Seems pretty lame compared to whatever Hailey got, right?
Thinking About It Now
Looking back, I wouldn’t change it. We were just focused on supporting each other, navigating that crazy new parent fog. The ‘present’ was more about the shared effort, the teamwork. We didn’t need a specific gift tied to the pushing part; the baby arriving was the main event, the overwhelming, life-changing gift itself.
It’s weird how things get turned into trends. Like, celebrating a new mom is great, absolutely. She deserves the world after what she goes through. But the pressure to buy a specific, often expensive, ‘push present’ feels a bit… manufactured? Maybe it’s just me getting old.
I remember a colleague stressing out massively about what push present to get his wife. He spent weeks researching, asking around, genuinely worried about picking the ‘right’ thing because he saw all this stuff online. It added a whole layer of stress he didn’t need right before their baby arrived.
In the end, whatever makes people happy, I guess. If a fancy gift is part of their celebration, cool. But for me, the real stuff wasn’t bought in a store. It was the extra hour of sleep she got because I took the baby, the hot meal I managed to cook that she didn’t have to think about, just being present. That felt more valuable than any physical gift tied to the birth itself.
