Gift Giving When Baby is Born

[StrangeOne]

Re: Gift Giving When Baby is Born

@Thornewood9

Hmm. Okay. So this is something that isn’t done by majority of Desis? When I had my first baby I didn’t think I was supposed to give gifts but people started dropping hints that it would be expected of me to gift jewellery and clothing to baby’s popos and others on my husbands side of the family.
I thought it must be the norm so I did it and I was happy to do it too. Now however that I’m expecting my second child (alhumdulillah) I’m getting the same hints again but apparently I’m expected to give gold in terms of jewellery (which I didn’t last time. We had a tight budget, I couldn’t afford gold but the sets I bought weren’t cheapy or trashy at all). So I’m just wondering what to do. Budget this time around is just as tight as last time. Would it look bad if I don’t give anything?
Thanks for everyone’s input.

Who is giving out the hints? If it’s your inlaws themselves then that’s exceptionally greedy behaviour. Don’t indulge them in bad habits. You should be saving gold and money for your kids now because they’re the priority.