Do I Have to Give Proof We Used Baby Shower Gifts?
The Best Baby Shower Gift You Can Give Is Not Asking For Photographic Evidence of the Newborn With Your Present
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Sure, snapping a photo takes seconds, but adjusting your schedule to do something that's not in your routine is hard on new moms. A relative pestered me on and off those first few months of my daughter's life for a photo of her in the newborn-sized sparkly tulle dress she'd bought her. The passive-aggressive requests came often enough that it was actually an item on my to-do list. But my baby lived in cotton sleepers, and I was so exhausted from sleepless nights that playing dress-up wasn't a priority over, say, disputing a $2,000 bill from the hospital. By the time I got around to it, my growing baby couldn't fit into it.
Although we may have taken diligent notes on who gave what for thank you cards, once those envelopes went in the mail, there's a good chance the intel was forever out of our brains. I was in a total mental fog when a friend asked to send a video of my daughter playing with the toy she got her, but I blanked. Baby toys are all somewhat similar, and my "sorting toy" note in my "baby gift" spreadsheet narrowed it down to all of three possibilities. At that point, it seemed almost worse to showcase the wrong present than none at all.