What's a good baby shower gift...?

Diapers, receiving blankets, baby wipes.

A book to record their “baby firsts”——clothes, etc. can all be obtained easily enough from friends on a pass along basis or on the “nearly new” market. While the book may seem flamboyant if folks need a lot of things, it adds something celebrative to their every day world that they likely wouldn’t buy for themselves?

Definately the diapers, but maybe also a coupon for a little timeout for the parents where you’ll help out with the child.

Did they register? Buy a gift they chose for themselves.

Young working class immigrants, does that mean not much discretionary money? I’ll assume so.

If they don’t have a registery buy very practical things from a place they can easily return your gift if they need to. Include a gift receipt. The baby needs to have the basics first, that is what you should help them with. Onesies, diapers, baby shampoo and soap, bottles, receiving blankets, bibs.

A diaper bag is a very nice and handy gift. You can put things into it or not depending on your budget.

@marinelife Nice idea. And, now they have diaper bags that look like adult handbags, which I recommend.

Speaking from a recently new-ish mom Diapers are awesome, also gift cards to babies r us, Walmart, etc are good to pick up anything that isn’t gotten at the shower. I love to do gift baskets with a mix of things like baby washes and ointments and med kits and towels and blankies and a little keepsake like a stuffed animal or photo book or hand/foot print kit.

I really want to make one now actually I wish I could help you!

OH and i almost forgot…. everyone always forgets the mom in this process, one of my fav gifts from my shower was a a little kit for the hospital. It had shampoo, conditioner, hairbrush, a toothbrush case and washcloth in a little travel bag so that I would be able to take care of myself at the hospital! Something like that with some fuzzy slippers and a robe would be a great mom gift :)

PS I see you are semi-local…If you make it down to providence I am happy to help!

I like to give a Diaper Cake
They are fun at a shower and if you’re crafty you can make your own.

Diapers, baby wipes, bibs/spitrags, and blankets, all tucked prettily into a nice diaper bag.

fill a baby bath with nappies, baby wipes, cotton wool, baby bubble bath/shampoo, vest, babygrow, cotton buds,

OR

Birthing bag for mum & dad – rucksack filled with relaxation oils (pregancy safe of course) magazines for him and her, change for the phone to ring people, notepad and pen to write down anecdotes of childs firsts at the hospital, any questions concerns worries and thoughts and also handy for keeping note of who’s bought what when recieving gifts in the hospital, playing cards, thankyou note paper, bottles of water, packs of crisps, boiled sweets.

Diaper Genie ii elite

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A pre paid photo session package to a local store like Wal Mart, Sears, JC Penney so they can get monthly pics taken while the baby grows.

Maybe you can give them a few money each week for a few months [like checks of some sort] and tell them to use them to buy fruits ^^

You’ve already been given lots of advice for diapers—I’ll clarify, if you DO get them diapers, they’ll need mostly size 2.
Babies are only newborn size for a brief time – and they’ll get lots of those diapers as gifts (potentially). Same thing with baby clothes. (And our first baby was born so large she NEVER wore newborn size—those items were all too small for her, she wore 3mo – 6mo sized items at birth).

Best baby shower gifts:
1. Gift Cards to Target/Wal-Mart their baby item store of choice. That way if they are saving up towards a crib mattress or stroller, they can use your gift card towards that..OR towards diapers or bottles. (And yes, even breast fed babies need bottles..so that you can leave them with grandma or a babysitter—you can store breast milk in a bottle for a babysitter to feed the baby.)
2. Clothes for size 6mo and larger. Sleepers with footies are nice. Also nice are baby Towels. We found we used them over and over till the kids were school aged. So, a nice baby-sized towel (they are usually quite cute, too—with ducks or frogs or some cute animal on them) is a good gift.
3. If you live in a cold climate, a baby snowsuit or winter cover for the baby car seat is a very nice gift.

Make your own gift basket up of your own selected onseys, pajamas, socks, hair brush, comb, baby wash, face cloths, baby towels, burp cloths (or cloth diapers to be used as burp cloths), nail clippers, and ect…… Just go nuts with the cut stuff that don’t cost alot. Or you could go in wiht someone for something like a pack and play or a swing, they also make portable swings that don’t cost alot which are handy to bring with you when you go to peoples houses, they are smaller and run around $35–50 so they are more resonable in price. I’m not sure where your price point is so those are my suggestions.

They might appreciate a book like Caring for Your Baby which gives you all sorts of easy to understand information about your child’s health, and when to know if you need to take your baby to the doctor, what immunizations are necessary and when they need to get them etc.

Whatever is in the registry at whatever store the parents well… registered with? I find it best to actually get people what they want as opposed to guessing.

Not everyone would appreciate a diaper genii. *They make long, sausage like snake chains of poopy diapers for anyone who doesn’t have kids… *Ewww

Target is best I think?

I am going to go super practical.

I would get size 3 diapers. They make diapers that are combo size 1 – 2 now and so FORGET the size ones. If you feel the urge to get the tiny ones, get the 1 – 2 combo. We used those for three months. At 4 months we went to size 3 and technically we could still go with 3 even though she’s a year old. We always size up ASAP, as most blow-outs are caused by diapers that can’t handle a full load. I know lots of people suggested this but SERIOUSLY, I can’t believe how many freaking diapers we go through a week.

When my daughter was first born, I got tons of 1’s and 1 – 2’s as shower gifts. I got so many that when she started blowing out 2’s, I used the smaller diapers as wipes. I had way too many tiny diapers. I would kill to be able to change those up a size.

baby hangers. No matter how many I have, I need more. It’s so much easier to see the clothes if they are hanging up and they really don’t fit on the big hangers. I almsot cry when I think of her beautiful outfits she never wore because they were stuffed in a drawer and by the time I found them, they were already too small

Speaking of.. I will be bold and say get NINE month clothes. For some reason, I had tons of stuff up to 6 months, and I had lots of 12 month stuff, but almost no 9 months. I noticed at used baby clothing stores there are almost no 9 month clothes for sale. I don’t know what’s going on but that was a frustrating time. Get things that would go with winter and summer—like onsies because it’s hard to tell when they will need bigger sizes.

Gift certificate to the nearest 24 hour drug store in the area. CHECK and make sure that it’s 24 hours. Babies always need something suddenly at 2 AM or half an hour after the closest drug store closes. I have never met a parent that didn’t need to make at least 2 – 3 emergency runs.

Humidifier—Babies NEED these in the winter if you live in a climate where you need to run the heater in winter. Their nose gets stuffy and you need to use the bulb syringe since they can’t blow their noses. Not only will you suck less snot out of their noses, they will wake up less in the night because they won’t have stuffy noses.

Museum Pass: This sounds weird, and maybe it doesn’t apply, but in my town, these are the ticket for sanity ESPECIALLY for the stay at home mom. I have a children’s museum yearly pass good for me and a guess. My daughter goes free. I can take one friend. I pair up with someone with a zoo pass and we get each other in free. So if you live in a town with lots of things like museums and mom works part time or stays at home this is a great way to beat the post partum depression. Even if it’s just an art museum pass, moms usually just push the babies around in strollers the first 9 months so it doesn’t matter if it’s a baby place or not.

And yes, I consider the museum pass to be very practical. You have no idea how bad cabin fever can get with a new baby. I got so depressed and insane until I started forcing myself to leave the house with the baby at least a few times a week.