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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm making a gift basket for a needy family at the NICU that took care of my daughter. I'm planning to do mainstream items, in part because I don't think any of the moms I met there would want weleda products, organic gender neutral clothes, or handmade toys from etsy., so it's going to be pink clothes from carters, plastic toys, and disposable diapers.

NICU mom here. Have you ever thought about including a little note about the product or toy being from etsy or being organic? You could take a moment to use this as a teaching/informational tool for someone who MIGHT not have been exposed to such products. Then again, that needy family MIGHT be able to teach you a thing or two.[/quote]

Dear God-I would never try to make a gift basket a teachable moment, and if anyone had done that to me in the NICU I would have told them where they could shove it.

When I say "I don't think" most NICU parents would want the same products I want, I mean "having spent several months hanging out with the other parents in this particular NICU I know that most of them would see the stuff I like as a bunch of ugly crap."  And yes, I'm sure very person in this sorry world MIGHT be able to teach me a lesson about something.  Hopefully that lesson won't be: try to do something nice for a stranger and find out they think you're a self-indulgent whore with bad taste.[/quote]

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