Lack of Baby Gift Etiquette: Should I ask if they received the gift?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

For you hard core written TY note folks out there who have had a baby - tell me, HONESTLY, when you received a gift in the first week of your baby's life, did you whip out a written thank you note within 48 hours? If you did, I need to know what you were taking cause I clearly did not get the good drugs!

Honestly, I did. But I didn't write a treatise, it was something super generic, like a PP said: "Thank you for the blanket, you are so nice to think of us. Love, Susie Q." (4 seconds). put in envelope (2 seconds) and wrote address on the envelope -- very important, this -- using the return address I was staring at at the moment bc the package was sitting in front of me (7 seconds). viola. Spouse mailed em at work the next day.

and I had PPD, bleeding nipples, a crappy nurser, recovering from C-section, the whole shebang. I don't want a medal, flamers, I just threw that in because it's just.not.that.hard. Hard was an oozing c-section scar, or my sick baby who needed surgery at 3 weeks. Hard is not spending <25 seconds to acknowledge a gift.

I am sure the gift giver appreciated your heartfelt "super generic" thank you.
Your response pretty much underscores why a verbal thank you that is part of a one-on-one conversation with your friend the gift giver is not only just as adequate but possibly more genuine and less "generic".