Inappropriate gifts for a newborn?

I'm due to have my first in March and I mentioned to my mother that I have a lot of summer stuff but not much winter clothes. She sent me an email (she lives in the UK) that she'd sent me a package with some jackets and that she'd bought baby her first fur coat . Not exactly top of my "must buy" or even "that would be nice" lists but I thought it might be funny to share if anyone else had been bought things that may not be the most appropriate for a new born.

I was given an ice-cream scoop as a gift for me and the baby...

Ice cream scoop??? Crikey!

Haha, an ice cream scoop!

We got a necklace (an adult one in a plastic packet) and a packet of baby carrot seeds from a weird friend. They were both presents for Chloe.

The same friend also gave her an enormous teddy bear, which is much bigger than her, but at least that was a normal gift!

Poor guy, he meant well but he's a little strange.

I was sent over a newborn snow suit for DS, it came from family in Ireland and 'just in time for when he's born'... he was a Jan baby!!! I still have it though lol

A friend of mine got given a leather NB mini skirt as part of an outfit and she wasn't particularly pleased!

LOL at the icecream scoop, baby carrotts and leather mini skirt!
Some people are weird and/or have a strange sense of humor.

We got given a packet of bibs from the IL's. They looked real cheap and I saw them in a $2 shop the other day... I almost feel a bit offended by that. This may sound snobby but this is their first grandchild!

Knowing my mum it will not be real fur. Will post a picture when I get it

I gave a friend who had baby in Oct a glass wine bottle stopper, but it was a follow-up to a convo we'd had about people giving us the usual baby stuff despite being on our 3rd & 5th babies. She gave me a gorgeous art glass ball (same range as the stopper I got her), I love it. Weird but we know each other well enough to do weird iykwim. Another friend got a "I'm proof my mum's easy" singlet from some insensitive f*cktard- her partner had left her for an 18yo while she was preggers.

hila1 wrote: DS2 was 9lb 5oz...MIL didn't bother coming to see him til he was a month old. Gave us a lovely present of prem sized clothes!!! Next time she saw him, a couple of weeks later, asked why he wasn't wearing them!!

Hahaha, classic!

Jacob was a bit smaller, but he didn't fit plenty of the NB stuff I'd bought him, it was all a bit sad

I can't believe you can buy a kids singlet that says that! Having said that i didnt get the meaning of the 'daddys little squirt' ones until someone explained the other other meaning...

Bizzy, maybe!! Its not a particularly flash one though, just a standard orange plastic ice-cream scoop. But good thought.

i was thinking she was trying to get me something nice and people seem to assume i want kitchen implements for gifts. Either way ,its something i didnt have before and i use it so its not all bad news but i did think it was odd!