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post #1 of 14
3/1/07 at 6:05pm
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Any ideas for good thank you gifts for your midwife?? I am totally stumped...
post #2 of 14
3/1/07 at 6:13pm
I found some great ideas at CafePress searching for the term "midwife" (http://www.cafepress.com/buy/midwife/). I was thinking of a journal or bag with some beautiful birth art on it. Or a collection of some of the more entertaining midwife bumper stickers.

You might find other things that appeal to you there.
post #3 of 14
3/1/07 at 6:50pm
If you are birthing in a hospital, is it still costumary to give a gift to midwife?
I was thinking if she is expectacualr I would wan to anyways. But I never got close to any of them like those of you doing homebirths. I do enjoy all of them though!

Oh that's a great website! great gifts!
post #4 of 14
3/1/07 at 7:32pm
i didn't ever think you needed to give a gift so never even thought of it, but with my sons birth my mom got an amazing picture of him being born, head out arms out mw's hand on his head guiding him out of the water to me, we got it in 5X7 and framed it and gave her a copy
post #5 of 14
3/1/07 at 10:36pm
bree, I have had several clients buy a gift certificate for a massage for their mw. If you want some ideas of who to choose, ask me. I bet your mw would love that given she is a new mama. If a full body massage is too pricey, you can do a foot treatment or neck treatment/chair massage!
post #6 of 14
3/3/07 at 4:30am
Thread Starter 
ohhhh... good ideas, thanks so much! so, there's the mw, her assistant mw, and the apprentice.... do you get gifts for all of them??? we never could figure this out, so didn't do any gifts last time, but this time i feel like we should gift them doubly.
post #7 of 14
3/3/07 at 4:44am
Okay, I have to say this, but only to the ladies in our DDC. Please realize that your midwife is also a woman, and most likely a mom, too. Being a midwife isn't her only role in life and a gift that celebrates her other roles may be even more appreciated. Everyone gives midwives something birth-related, but *many* of the midwives I have known would love to get gift certificates for meals out (they don't eat *all* of their meals at births, although it seems that way sometimes), pedicures (manicures are often wasted--think hand hygiene), the mall, something personal from you, or even homemade gift certificates for things like "2 hours of babysitting" or "one car wash" or "2 hours of IT help" or whatever it is that is *your* specialty.
post #8 of 14
3/3/07 at 3:21pm
I am giving my OB one of these http://www.stitchpixie.com/ (click on fertility)

post #9 of 14
3/3/07 at 3:28pm
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I am giving my OB one of these http://www.stitchpixie.com/ (click on fertility)
Ha! How cute are those!

I have no idea what I will give my m/w and also my doula. But keep the ideas coming!
post #10 of 14
3/3/07 at 4:31pm
I am looking for something too- only for my OB, who is a man. This my the 3rd birth with him for the first I gave him a bottle of wine, for the second I gave him a GC to a great resturant, now I have NO idea- this is my LAST birth too. I don't know- any ideas?
post #11 of 14
3/3/07 at 5:05pm
I would think that with the usual cost of an OB, no gift would be expected.
post #12 of 14
3/3/07 at 6:14pm
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I would think that with the usual cost of an OB, no gift would be expected.
I'm sure he has never expected a gift but I am very appreciative of him. He deals my crunchiness w/o complaint- not something one can usually say of western medicine practioners. Hopefully over the past 5 years I've enlightened him some too..
post #13 of 14
3/4/07 at 1:43am
We're giving the midwife a little extra cash when we pay our final bill (I figure money is always appreciated and she has *tons* of birth-related "junk" that people have given her already, having been a midwife for close to 30 years ). Our apprentice - some really good coffee and a gift card to a coffeeshop. Doula - probably just a really nice thank-you card. Since I'm also a doula and we work together she asked me to please not get her anything or pay her.
post #14 of 14
3/4/07 at 1:48am
After my last son was born, I gave my midwife, her assistant, and my doula each a thank you card, a gc to a very nice local restaraunt, and a piece of silver jewelry with amethyst (his birthstone). They all seemed to really like their gifts

Haven't decided what I will do this time...guess I should be thinking about that.
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