The best gifts to give expectant or new parents:
- Anything off their baby registry. Believe it or not, parents to be spend hours in a Baby Too Much Crap Store, looking at EVERYTHING. Debating, arguing and finally selecting what they'd like.
- Moola. Dinero, Dough, Loot - Cash is King.
- Gift card to a Baby Store. New parents are gonna make lots of trips to 'the store' and will always need things down the road.
- Nursing Pillow - If you know the mother will be nursing, It's a back saver. Without a pillow(s) during nursing, I tend to hunch over and kill my back in the process.
- Diapers, Diapers and more Diapers - This is the last thing new parents want to think about.
- Burp Cloths - You can never have too many. Babies spit up and better on a burp cloth than on a human.
- Cloth Diapers - I use them as burp clothes; they're more absorbent than the cutsie burp cloths. I use them under my babies head so if he spits up it lands on the cloth diaper and not the furniture.
- Medical Kit - with a thermometer, etc. As a never before parent, that thermometer is going to get good usage....and early. The first week Critter was home, I reached for it.
- Grooming Kit - Precious needs to have hair coiffed with a brush and nails manicured with a clipper.
- Swaddler - THE BEST GIFT EVER!!!! For parents that can't manage to wrap a newborn in a blanket tightly like a burrito. And babies LOVE to be wrapped up.
Thank you to my 6yr old nieces and 4yr old nephew for my favorite gift!
(Critter in his Swaddler)
I hate when people give such impractical gifts for a newborn. Your list is good. When in doubt Gift Card is the way to go.
ReplyDeleteI always give money with a cute little something. I learned when I had kids, people have the worst taste.
ReplyDeleteI like the Miracle Wrap better than swaddler as you can tuck babies arms into the fabric and it prevents them from getting loose.
ReplyDeleteI bet your nieces and nephew if they had a swaddler remember how cozy they felt in it.