When should I.....?

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

One of my favorite coworkers, Katie, is pregnant and due on March 3. I likely won't go to her shower but I want to get her a gift. When is it too early?

They know the sex of the baby and thus I think this means they are past the main 'danger zone'; miscarriage is much less likely by now. (She did have a miscarriage a few years ago). So is it too early to get a gift now?

I love Katie; she and her husband have been hugely involved in our LGBT employee group. She does a lot of the grunt work that no one else wants to.

Comments

[denisia.livejournal.com]

Maybe it would be best to get her a small generic congratulations gift now, and leave the big "congrats on the baby" gift until the shower? If she's due in March it means she's only four months in...and unfortunately that still leaves a long time for miscarriage or something else to go wrong, even if it is not as likely. When she has the shower it's going to be a lot closer to the end of the pregnancy.

Way back when I asked about baby gifts, a friend of mine brought up the point that the mom needs TLC too, and the presents always concentrate on the newborn. So maybe what you could get Katie right now, if you wanted to get her a gift, could be a "pamper the mom-to-be" sort of thing? Like a gift certificate to a restaurant she likes or a spa?

[denisia.livejournal.com]

To edit the above, I know you said you weren't going to the shower, and I didn't mean that you had to...I just meant that maybe timing the gift WITH the shower, or around that date, would work.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea, coincide with whenever the shower is.