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[quote=Anonymous]I posted a few years ago about how writing thank you notes almost contributed to PPD for me. (I know that sounds ridiculous). I got hundreds of them, mainly from my work clients and partners, but also from DH's gigantic family. In all, I had to write about 350 thank you notes. DH was like "it' snot necessary to send them" and really wasn't much help. It took me soo long to write them back, and I actually had a handful of people complain to my MIL (and two people complain to my own grandma) that they didn't get thank you notes from me. (They did, it just took about 5 weeks or so). I did the best I could. i HATED it. Looking back, I will never, ever do this again (not that I ever expect to get this many gifts at once again!). It took a lot of pleasure and time away from spending time with my new baby and also time I could have been spending sleeping. DS had colic, too, and we literally had about 30 minutes a day without a baby in our arms. When I complained on DCUM, I got these biddies saying "no excuse for bad manners, put the baby down, let him cry, and write the notes." And "don't tell me that you don't have time to spend 15 minutes a day on thank you notes." Yeah.

Now when I give a present to a new parent, I write to them: DO NOT WRITE ME A THANK YOU NOTE! Spend that time with your baby instead, and when you feel up to sending out photos of your new little family member, please put me on your distribution list!

I've had parents call me and tell me how much they appreciated that. [/quote]

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