Helpful Gifts For New Parents

Helpful ‘Gifts’ For New Parents

The old saying “don’t arrive with two arms the same length” is never more true than when you visit a friend or family member that have just welcomed a new baby into their home! Here is a short list of simple gestures and ‘gifts’ that you can bring along that will be much more helpful to the new parents than anything else:

Food – all kinds of food are welcome!!

You could get very creative however and prepare a freezer bag filled with ingredients for their favourite meal, it can be popped into the freezer and on those days where there is nothing in the fridge they can simply toss your delicious life saver into the slow cooker or casserole dish and they will feel like they’ve prepare their own homemade meal – amazing!!

Fresh Flowers

If you’re planning a visit after the initial first few weeks then chances are things have calmed down in the new parent’s home and deflated ‘New Baby’ balloons and sad looking flowers may start to appear. Keep that new Mama blossoming with fresh beautiful flowers and she will smile each time, thinking of you ; )

Clean up

If you’re close to the new parents then you may feel comfortable offering to give their home a tiny tidy up – chances are the hoover may not have been used in fear of waking up the newborn and there have been many things more important than hoovering..sleep being number one!!

Fold up the piles of clean laundry whilst you let Mum or Dad have a nap, if there’s no clean laundry – offer to put on a wash, it will be greatly appreciated!

Supermarket delivery voucher

This will seem like an unusual gift but it will also force the new Mum or Dad to take advantage of the amazing invention that is online supermarket shopping!! Your very voucher may even introduce them to how easy it can be stock up their kitchen cupboards with just a touch of a button all while baby is asleep in their arms – winners all round!

Ask how you can help

Ask the new parents is there anyway you can help. Not just in the first two weeks, where everything is exciting and new and everyone wants to help, but in the adjustment period afterwards. Give them a call the day before you plan to visit and see if they need anything, then a few hours before you show up, send a text – they may have forgotten something!