Don’t buy her flowers
Having a baby is hard work… even number four! It take a while to find your new ‘normal’ and in the meantime life can be a little bit stressful. Friends and family visit, laden with endless gifts for the new baby and bunches of flowers for the Mama. Don’t get me wrong, I love having fresh flowers in the house, but after eight bouquets in a week, your house quickly starts to resemble a florists.
After having her first baby, Steph Douglas came up with the idea for ‘Don’t buy her flowers’ – offering thoughtfully put together care packages for new Mama’s.
Steph Douglas, creator of dontbuyherflowers.com
With a newborn to care for, three bigger kiddos to look after, a house and a business to run, my life is a little bit totally crazy. Steph kindly sent me ‘The Care Package‘ – full of lovely treats just for me!! The package came with a copy of Living magazine {you get to pick the magazine}, Luxury Caramel and Cranberry Flapjack, Green Tea with Mint and Everyday Brew Tea, some Triple Choc Brownie Truffles and a large printed scarf. A gift like this is so amazing to receive as a new mum… giving you the perfect excuse to escape to the bath for ten minutes of peace and pampering!
As well as a new mama gift, this would make a great gift come Mothers Day for any Mama, after all, we work so hard 365 days of the year I think all Mama’s deserve a little bit of TLC don’t they?!
You can see the Don’t buy her flowers website here and the sisterhood blog here.
Would you have liked to receive a gift like this as a new mama?
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Elisa
February 10, 2015 at 13:17oh yes, this is a fantastic gift! Waaaay better than flowers — as you said, I love fresh flowers, but one bunch is plenty.
I love this idea! Brilliant. Bookmarking it.
Michelle D
February 10, 2015 at 18:11I’m due in a couple of weeks and that flapjack looks like the perfect gift!! Much prefer edibles over flowers!
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76sunflowers
February 10, 2015 at 19:49Definitely better than flowers – so with you on the vase situation! A magazine, cuppa and a bath would have been perfect – I hope you did that yourself :)
Emma
February 10, 2015 at 21:06What a great idea! I love flowers, but I think even I would find arranging 8 bouquets with a new baby, stressful.
Lori
February 10, 2015 at 22:59This is a fab idea and I love tea pigs. Looks like a lovely pamper gift to relax with – when i say relax you know i mean as you can with a tiny one! x
Lottie :: Oyster & Pearl
February 11, 2015 at 11:15What an amazing idea! Yep, definitely better than flowers!
Steph (Don't Buy Her Flowers)
February 11, 2015 at 13:13What a lovely bunch of ladies! Reading these comments is so so lovely – thanks Polly! Steph xx
abigail
February 11, 2015 at 13:18I saw this a while ago and thought it was such a good idea! I do love flowers, but when you’ve got a little baby to look after you definitely don’t want to think about keeping something else alive! Plus those snacks look so tempting!
Slummy single mummy
February 11, 2015 at 13:40You say ‘even number four’ as though people might be reading and thinking that having four children is easy!! That made me smile :-)
Alice
February 11, 2015 at 19:15I’ve had a couple of chats with Steph on Twitter and she seems so lovely! I think this is a really great idea. Almost makes me want another one… ALMOST ;) x
Fiona
February 11, 2015 at 19:53Ah I love this idea. I mean, I love flowers, but I never ever get to read magazines so that would be a real treat for me x
lisa prince
February 12, 2015 at 08:37oh i do love this idea , this is most certainly what us mums need x
joanna
February 12, 2015 at 16:41such a lovely idea definitely much better than flowers.
laura redburn
February 15, 2015 at 20:59this is really sweet and it’s always nice to have gifts that are actually useful or a bit pampering! :)