Gifts for Birthmoms
So many adoptive parents ask other birth parents what good gifts are for mothers who are planning to place or their children’s birthmoms. This has to be difficult, because how can a mere gift say thanks for answering their prayers. But, at appropriate times, gifts are nice tokens of appreciation.
Below are some ideas for gifts:
- Pictures are always wonderful, but should not really be considered a gift. But doing something special with them is! If you are crafty you could make a scrapbook and send her the book with a few completed pages, then continue to periodically send completed pages for her to put in the scrapbook. Also, special frames make the picture a gift.
- Journals are great gifts. Include a nice writing pen.
- Anything to spoil a birthmom! Candles, bath gels, soaps, etc
- Jewelry: Lockets (with a picture of the child,) a ring with the child’s birthstone, a charm bracelet (you could give a new charm each year)
- Bring her flowers to the hospital when she delivers the baby.
- If you live in a different part of the country, something from your area might make a nice keepsake.
- The child’s hand in a plaque (can use the phrase "you are forever in my heart.")
- Anything your child makes!
Dates appropriate to send gifts or cards for:
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