What Were Your Favorite Gifts At Your Baby Shower?
I am going to one of my best friend’s baby shower, and I really want to get her something that is really practical and helpful. I have already bought a cute little outfit, but I would love some ideas from moms and what their favorite gifts were! Thanks!
p.s. it’s a boy!
My rocking chair came from my Mom, I got pack and play, crib, and changing table, and automatic breast pump (with my own attachments of course) from hand-me-downs from other relatives. I love the changing table. That certainly gets the most use out of everything, followed by the rocking chair.
HANGERS (child size) someone bought me, I don’t remember who, but whoever did was a genius! I had so many clothes that weren’t her size yet and none of the had store hangers yet. Soo helpful for organization. (like a dollar for 10 at walmart)
You could make her something in a picture frame for the wall, like a collage or sew a cute saying, we got something like this from DH’s aunt.
Free babysitting “coupons” so she can go out for a night
Camera if she doesn’t already have one (we didn’t)
Little baskets to put stuff in, kinda like this: http://www.target.com/4-pc-Basket-Set-Li…
We use ours to put stuff like lotions and soaps in one, toys in another, stuffed animals, you get the picture..
Will she breastfeed? Boob pads are awesome! I use a lot of these. Lansinoh ones are the best ones I’ve found.http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.a…
I also use a lot of breastmilk storage bags. These ones are great, especially with the double zipper, also Lansinoh:http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.a…
Blankets you can never have enough blankets. The flannel swaddling ones, and the big fuzzy soft ones. If you get the fuzzy ones, make sure you pull on it before you buy it to make sure all the fuzzies don’t come off because otherwise the baby gets fuzzies in all the little chub rolls.
Laundry basket. We got one of these and good thing too, cuz we use the ones we already had for our clothes – we sort them when we take em off.
I used a wipe warmer for the first month, after that I quit using it, was just too much of a pain when the wipes fell back in and had to open the whole top up to grab the next wipe.
Speaking of wipes, Huggies wipes I love because they’re thicker and hold more poo. Pampers wipes are made of cotton so they’re softer but strechier and sometimes I get a finger full when I use those.
Q-tips are great too, we use a lot of those. Nose suckers don’t work for our daughter, so I CAREFULLY clean out the boogers with q-tips. Good for ear wax too.
We use these most often… Hope you find something great to give her!
Ok, I am not a mom, but my best friend just had a baby and we made her a diaper cake!! It was super cute and SUPER practical. She is into the environment and is using gdiapers, so we used those, but you could use normal diapers too. Just google ‘diaper cake” images and see what I am talking about. Then we got thick blue ribbon and wrapped blue ribbon around it and looks at her registry and got a few things off of the registry to add in the ribbon. It was SUPER cute and totally the hit of the shower!!!!
I can say right now with certainty I do not remember who gave me which outfit. The things that stand out in my mind was the crib/mattress and the small things that saved my sanity… like the swaddle me my dad got for my daughter, that was a life saver.
Diapers are always great, but it is not something people will remember for a long time. Maybe a newborn swing of some sort the baby can nap in? We bought our swing ourselves but it certainly got a ton of use.
can you make something? I got shoes, quilts, bibs, and hats from various people that were all homemade and they’re so special.
here’s some ideas:http://www.make-your-own-baby-stuff.com/http://everythingyourmamamade.com/its-al…
that’d be awesome and original and she’ll definitely remember it.
The diapers were a great help! Their were some outfits that I just absolutely loved! But my favorite things was the swing because my son just loved his mobile swing – it was my lifesaver when it came to doing house work and I had to put him down he never once fussed when he was in that swing!!!
Diapers size 1, diaper genie(one of my favs), bottle warmer (if shes not breast feeding) and the little stuff people forget about like bath stuff, bum creams, hospital care kits etc…
personally i love the diaper genie though haha no poop smell!
diapers [sizes 2,3]
that will help in the long run!
mine was anything that was rainforest because that was my theme