Ask Dr. Helen: Do Husbands Owe Wives Post-Childbirth ‘Push Presents?’
Ok I cannot disagree more. I have 6 children and during my pregnancies I get an illness called hyperemisis Gravidarum(sp?). I get severely ill whenever I eat meat milk or certain grains. I tend to be nauseous till the baby is born and I also, If I am not really careful, throw up several times a day. This has led me to be hospitalized to get fluids and such. I don’t get a push present per say but I do get my own rack of ribs and a gigantic sunday that is my own. Anyone who has a few kids knows what that means. It means a huge deal to me that finally when the baby is born I get this huge treat.
A friend of mine after she had her baby got the “push present” of a clothing spree because her pregnancy had left her unable to fit right back into her old clothes. Another got a zoo membership for herself along with memberships to a kids museum and and a science museum. Another got a birthstone necklace with her 3 kids stones in it.
I can tell you none of the men are forced to get these things but got them happily. Now if there is some overpriced tart demanding diamonds for the birth of a child then I can see that being a problem but for the most of us paycheck to paycheck-ers its nothing so extravagant as all that.
Anyhow it is better than what happened with my 5th child. A bunch of gay guys, a girl with no kids and a Childfree by choice guy took up a collection for the pregnancy and bought my husband an X-box.
