Wrong Baby Gift?

[Lizmo]

Okay I have a problem.  I need some advice.
I was chosen as the lucky person to collect money from my colleagues to buy another colleague a baby gift.  She is 8 months pregnant, and we thought this would be a nice gesture.  I bought a gift card to a baby store for 75$, and I bought varoius other items OFF OF THE REGISTRY.  One of the items were some cute little recieving blankets, from her registry, that fit the style of how they are decorating the baby's room.  We are going to meet to give her gifts today after work.

So here's the issue.  There is another girl that is pregnant on staff.  Today, the first pregnant girl was asking the second one if she needed any recieving blankets.  She went garage saling and bought so many she doesn't know what to do with all of them.  Ummm...I just bought her THREE MORE because they were on her registry!  (And htey were not marked as having been bought.)  I am just frustrated right now.  I do have the gift reciepts for her, but it's goin to be awkard giving her this present 3 hours after listening to her talk about how she has so many she doesn't need anymore.

I am half tempted to just take them out and return them, but part of me thinks that would be stupid.  I will probably leave them in the gift bag, with the gift reciept, so she can take them back if she wants. 

But why ask for things you don't need and are trying to get rid of?  I feel so stupid now.

[Chocolate Cake]

If she registered for them, maybe she wants those particular ones.  Perhaps they match the baby room decor or something.

Just carry on as usual, but give her the gift receipt just in case.

[kiero]

Don't feel stupid.  

I didn't have a registry for my baby - but a similar thing happened anyway.  My sister had just had twins (6 months before) and had recieved alot of new and used things and basically passed them all on to me.  This means that I had more clothes before the baby was born than I needed.  It was really hard not to say that - and I basically did when one co-worked came to visit.  Then I felt like an idiot when I opened her gift of clothes.  

And you can never have enough receiveing blankets.  I probably have close to 30 and I use them as burp clothes, swaddling blankets, milk dribble catchers, and lots of other things.  

[lolane]

Don't feel stupid, you and your co-workers made a thoughtful gesture. I am sure that the pregnant co-worker will feel really embarrassed after she opens her gifts and sees that she sort of bad-mouthed a gift that you all gave her. Just include the gift reciept and let her deal with it.

[Elfqueen13]

You can never have too many receiving blankets.  Really.  They are about the most useful baby item EVER - right up there with onesies that snap under the crotch.

[Lizmo]

Thanks for the info about never having enough receiving blankets.  I have never had a baby myself, so this is all pretty new to me.  And shopping for these gifts?  Ugh, I am boycotting Babies R Us.  It's like being lost in a warehouse with nothing but a serial number to figure out what the heck some of this stuff was...(and unhelpful staff, too!)  Which is why she got a gift card from there, and gifts off of her registry from WalMart.  I guess it'll be easier to learn about this stuff now so I'll be prepared when I'm ready for my own...

[CinHough]

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it.  As long as you include the gift receipt and she can return them if she wants to, that should be fine.

I agree that you can never have too many receiving blankets.  If this is her first baby, and she gets a "spitter", she may not realize exactly how much additional laundry she's going to have!  I recently had my third child (daughter is 9; first son is 4) and unfortunately, I could probably use three or four more blankets so that I don't continue to take him out using a blanket with that wonderful "formula-upchuck" aroma.   

[Slartibartfast]

Is is possible her "I have too many" speech was because she really wanted thought your other pregnant co-worker would need some?  It's nicer to say "I have extras, here, have some" than "I have some garage sale ones, but I am going to upgrade and you look poor enough to need whatever you can get."

[audhs]

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it.  As long as you include the gift receipt and she can return them if she wants to, that should be fine.

I agree that you can never have too many receiving blankets.  If this is her first baby, and she gets a "spitter", she may not realize exactly how much additional laundry she's going to have!  I recently had my third child (daughter is 9; first son is 4) and unfortunately, I could probably use three or four more blankets so that I don't continue to take him out using a blanket with that wonderful "formula-upchuck" aroma.   

I can relate, my first was a spitter we had tonnes of recieving blankets and baby face cloth's.  My second (2 1/2 months ) doesn't spit much at all so I have a drawer full of them and no where to use them.    lol.   Thank goodness 3 of my closest friends are expecting (and I'm most definatly done)