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Personally I'm not keen on limiting gifts that others give my LO, either. What is your reasoning? I think you can raised a non-spoiled child who is appreciative of what others give him/her.

If you want to limit the total number of gifts, cut down on what you give your child. Some people get a lot of joy in buying for others (my parents are like this) and I have found it easier to deal with if i cut back on my personal stuff and let them do what they want.

Eventually, it will even out, infant and baby toys are very inexpensive (for the most part).

I'M ALL ON BOARD WITH YOU! We did this for lo's bday. Grandparents went NUTS (I knew they would) with gifts, as did uncles and aunts. We only got LO one thing (a toy vacuum-$29 bucks). DH and I laughed about it, but hey, everyone else got him huge gifts and of course he's too young to care/notice. Especially because my parents got him a swingset, water table and bookshelf. I mean, really? He needs nothing else. And that was the tip of the iceberg. He's 12m.

I don't know how to convince your husband. I think 4 gifts is plenty (plus grandparents' gifts).

I struggle with this too. It's not because of the religious aspect of the holiday for me personally, but because I have seen how spoiled rotten my nephew is and also because I want to raise LO to be a smart spender financially (so dropping $100's on one holiday isn't a good lesson).

I don't know what to do!

@jedeve: This is exactly our logic.

1) I want to emphasise the religous aspect and the spirit of giving (not all about getting gifts).
2) I don't want to set a standard that we don't want to maintain for years to come. For example, if we start giving her 15 gifts per year this year, then she would expect us/santa to continue that amount later on even as gifts get more expensive.
3) We do not believe in going into debt for christmas and she will still get other gifts from family that we will not limit.