Baby gift for newborn first child to couple with no family in the US?
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Anonymous
| I live several states away from a former colleague who just had her first child a few weeks premature and with no family ( other than her and her partner) in the US. I want to send something to brighten the day but something useful might be better than flowers. Any ideas? |
Anonymous
| Meal delivery or something from Goldbelly delivered. |
Anonymous
| Healthy snacks. |
Anonymous
| Edible Arrangements. or meal delivery or a gift certificate to get one. |
Anonymous
| Meal delivery or Amazon gift card. Something practical and useful. |
Anonymous
| NOT Edible arrangements. No one wants to deal with storing fruit at a time like this. If you want something edible, get the Weekender gift basket from Zingerman's. I also like: Amazon gift card, Aden and Anais swaddle blankets |
Anonymous
Edible Arrangements is shit quality though. I'd go with a CSA type of box or something like that. |
Anonymous
| Amazon gift card. With her baby being premature they may not have had everything ready for the baby and will be ordering a lot from amazon. Heck I had my baby two weeks past the due date and I was still ordering things from amazon at 3:00am during night feedings. |
Anonymous
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Amazon gift card is always appreciated. Agree with PP - even with a full registry, you don't know what you really need for baby until you need it! So I was always buying new things for my twins in the first few weeks.
Otherwise, I agree that meal delivery would be a great way of saying "here's something that I hope can help you guys out during these stressful times particularly when you guys are by yourselves!" For recent friends who gave birth, I have given them a $100 Uber Eats gift certificate. The best gift I got was my friend who organized a meal train for us during those first 6 weeks. She put together a schedule and all of our friends volunteered to bring us meals every few days (and big meals too so that we would have leftovers!). It was a godsend as having twins made it hard for DH and I to spend any extra time on things like cooking. And both of our families are also not on the continental US. You're a sweet friend <3 |
Anonymous
| Op here. Thanks for these suggestions! I sent a big gift basket of non perishable treats. Am glad that I did that because the baby was sick and the family had to go back to the hospital for a few days. They got the package when they returned home and nothing was spoiled or anything. |