Diaper Swappers

mommypockets · 08-11-2012, 11:20 AM

What is you favorite gift to give close friends who've just had a baby?

Super-close friends, I like to make a month's-worth of frozen dinner meals. Cook them from scratch and freeze them so that they can be microwaved. I also make a nursing cover/burp cloth set and a baby blanket with baby's name embroidered on it.

For close friends, a week's-worth of dinners and breakfast pancakes and the cover/burp cloth set.

Frizabeans · 08-11-2012, 11:48 AM

Food the first month. The 2nd month I'll go per to their house and watch the baby so they can nap- I feel thats when the no sleep insanity really starts to effect a person. Or come do dishes or something do my friend can have a wee bit of "me time".

jenbengtson · 08-11-2012, 01:14 PM

I go over and clean for them, and watch the baby so they can take a nap.

luvsviola · 08-11-2012, 03:24 PM

I usually buy them a dozen Eli's Wipees (katedanzer on here). After baby is here, we generally take a meal.

d_arnold · 08-11-2012, 08:15 PM

I think meals are by far the best thing you can do. I know we really appreciated everyone who brought us meals those first few weeks!

mommypockets · 08-11-2012, 08:41 PM

Something that has made me sad is that not a single person I cooked meals for returned the favor. One didn't even thank me!!!

joyfullyliving · 08-11-2012, 09:22 PM

One of my friends gave me a gift bag of stuff to help me recover, so that's what I like to do. I include pads, a spray bottle, hemroid pads, nursing pads, and some chocolate.

Many times I'll do a meal too.

That many meals! Wow. What a gift. I'll say thank you for your friend.

08-11-2012, 11:20 AM	#1
mommypockets Registered Users Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 891 Ratings: 24 Feedback: 100%	Favorite Birth Gift for Close Friends What is you favorite gift to give close friends who've just had a baby? Super-close friends, I like to make a month's-worth of frozen dinner meals. Cook them from scratch and freeze them so that they can be microwaved. I also make a nursing cover/burp cloth set and a baby blanket with baby's name embroidered on it. For close friends, a week's-worth of dinners and breakfast pancakes and the cover/burp cloth set.

08-11-2012, 01:14 PM	#3
jenbengtson Registered Users Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 888 Ratings: 1 Feedback: 100% My Mood:	Re: Favorite Birth Gift for Close Friends I go over and clean for them, and watch the baby so they can take a nap. __________________ Mommy to Emma 10-11-2008 and Madeline 7-24-2010 Join me at CROWDTAP http://bit.ly/jCJLSN

08-11-2012, 03:24 PM	#4
luvsviola Registered Users Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Central Indiana Posts: 15,034 Ratings: 115 Feedback: 100% My Mood:	Re: Favorite Birth Gift for Close Friends I usually buy them a dozen Eli's Wipees (katedanzer on here). After baby is here, we generally take a meal. __________________ Kristen Mommy to Abigail ~1/24/07 and Kendall~3/17/2011 and FINALLY adoptive mama to LEDGER~4/4/09!!!--G-J tube, asthma, oral aversion, reflux, SPD, drug exposure, and still searching for a diagnosis of the rest... Ask me about extended rear facing!

08-11-2012, 08:15 PM	#5
d_arnold Registered Users Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Edmond, OK Posts: 1,548 Ratings: 30 Feedback: 100% My Mood:	Re: Favorite Birth Gift for Close Friends I think meals are by far the best thing you can do. I know we really appreciated everyone who brought us meals those first few weeks! __________________ Wife of 4 years to DH and mama to our sweet DD who's the love our our life!

08-11-2012, 09:22 PM	#7
joyfullyliving Registered Users Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 161 Ratings: 1 Feedback: 100%	One of my friends gave me a gift bag of stuff to help me recover, so that's what I like to do. I include pads, a spray bottle, hemroid pads, nursing pads, and some chocolate. Many times I'll do a meal too. That many meals! Wow. What a gift. I'll say thank you for your friend. __________________ SAHM to S 10/09 and A 8/11 and wife to my Blessed. Thankful.