Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 14:00     Subject: Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We were given a year's family membership to a local science museum. We were given six months of a diaper delivery service. Oh! We were also given six months to a CSA, so just got a box of local, organic produce each week.


I’m going to be honest I wouldn’t want or use any of these and the CSA would be a burden. Don’t give tasks as gifts.


Huh? The CSA sends fruits and vegetables to your door. Means if we couldn't get to the neighborhood farmer's market, we still had our produce for the week. It was LESS work for us.


Definitely DON'T do a CSA. I had a CSA gift from my mother and the minute the baby was born I just couldn't prep and cook all those vegetables. I literally keep postponing and postponing and postponing the deliveries. I used to love the boxes but they are still too much work. Single mom with a toddler. I may have to gift the unused boxes of the CSA to someone else since I may move before using them all.


Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 13:54     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:Gift cards are helpful, but I wouldn’t do UberEats or Doordash (I’d never use these services, who wants their food in a random car). If not Amazon/Target I think the PP with the thermometer post is spot on. You could also do a small gift basket with infant Tylenol, gripe water, aquafor, etc. Things that will get used. Sleep sacks are great and new parents underestimate how many they’ll use. The zip up infant ones are lifesavers in the first few weeks. Also magnetic snap pjs (pricey but lovely to have).

Please do not gift a blanket….so many blankets!!


What? Have you ever ordered a pizza?
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 13:51     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did the registry include a tub mat and the bathtub faucet cover? That faucet cover has saved us a bunch of times and for some reason people always register for a baby tub but don’t think of the mat for when they (quickly) transition from the baby bathtub.


is a bath mat necessary?


What’s the alternative? Our tub is slick so our babies and toddlers tub had a nonslip mat so they could sit and play in the tub. And it was safer to stand up on (in the case of our tub).

I don’t know if all people use one but I couldn’t imagine skipping it.


We just used a hand towel on the bottom of the tub. After the bath you wring it out and wash it with the other towels. One of the concepts of minimalists is to have less things that only have a single purpose, like a nonslip tub mat.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 13:46     Subject: Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
I haven't read everything so this may have been mentioned, and/or it may have been something on the already-bought registry list. I loved and really used these Skip Hop products - I found them to be really well designed and helped me to get out and about:

Pronto Signature Changing Station (diaper changing mat that folds up like a wristlet)
Grab & Go Double Bottle Bag
Grab & Go Stroller Organizer
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 13:39     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gift cards are helpful, but I wouldn’t do UberEats or Doordash (I’d never use these services, who wants their food in a random car). If not Amazon/Target I think the PP with the thermometer post is spot on. You could also do a small gift basket with infant Tylenol, gripe water, aquafor, etc. Things that will get used. Sleep sacks are great and new parents underestimate how many they’ll use. The zip up infant ones are lifesavers in the first few weeks. Also magnetic snap pjs (pricey but lovely to have).

Please do not gift a blanket….so many blankets!!


And we never used a single sleep sack..


Did you swaddle? What did you do when the baby couldn’t be swaddled anymore but was too young for a loose blanket in the crib? Just curious.


Swaddled as a newborn till he unswaddled himself...then blanket sleepers.


How is a blanket sleeper different than a sleep sack?



It’s like pjs. It has feet.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:57     Subject: Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:I really appreciated the homemade crochet baby blanket we got. As a minimalist that purges hard, it will be a keepsake we’ll save to adulthood. They look to be about $50 on Etsy.


I was given seven blankets when my first was born, and four when my second was born.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:55     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did the registry include a tub mat and the bathtub faucet cover? That faucet cover has saved us a bunch of times and for some reason people always register for a baby tub but don’t think of the mat for when they (quickly) transition from the baby bathtub.


is a bath mat necessary?


What’s the alternative? Our tub is slick so our babies and toddlers tub had a nonslip mat so they could sit and play in the tub. And it was safer to stand up on (in the case of our tub).

I don’t know if all people use one but I couldn’t imagine skipping it.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:53     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:Did the registry include a tub mat and the bathtub faucet cover? That faucet cover has saved us a bunch of times and for some reason people always register for a baby tub but don’t think of the mat for when they (quickly) transition from the baby bathtub.


is a bath mat necessary?
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:53     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
This might be a weird one- and I’m also kind of a minimalist- but one thing I never had that I always meant to get was a stroller fan. I always see “super nannies” pushing their charges around with that fan going and I kept meaning to get one. But then I never got around to googling whether they were safe and then the moment passed. It’s so hot here in the summer though. I always thought the babies with the fans looked nice and cool (ish).
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:46     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gift cards are helpful, but I wouldn’t do UberEats or Doordash (I’d never use these services, who wants their food in a random car). If not Amazon/Target I think the PP with the thermometer post is spot on. You could also do a small gift basket with infant Tylenol, gripe water, aquafor, etc. Things that will get used. Sleep sacks are great and new parents underestimate how many they’ll use. The zip up infant ones are lifesavers in the first few weeks. Also magnetic snap pjs (pricey but lovely to have).

Please do not gift a blanket….so many blankets!!


And we never used a single sleep sack..


Did you swaddle? What did you do when the baby couldn’t be swaddled anymore but was too young for a loose blanket in the crib? Just curious.


Swaddled as a newborn till he unswaddled himself...then blanket sleepers.


How is a blanket sleeper different than a sleep sack?
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:17     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Did the registry include a tub mat and the bathtub faucet cover? That faucet cover has saved us a bunch of times and for some reason people always register for a baby tub but don’t think of the mat for when they (quickly) transition from the baby bathtub.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:13     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gift cards are helpful, but I wouldn’t do UberEats or Doordash (I’d never use these services, who wants their food in a random car). If not Amazon/Target I think the PP with the thermometer post is spot on. You could also do a small gift basket with infant Tylenol, gripe water, aquafor, etc. Things that will get used. Sleep sacks are great and new parents underestimate how many they’ll use. The zip up infant ones are lifesavers in the first few weeks. Also magnetic snap pjs (pricey but lovely to have).

Please do not gift a blanket….so many blankets!!


And we never used a single sleep sack..


Did you swaddle? What did you do when the baby couldn’t be swaddled anymore but was too young for a loose blanket in the crib? Just curious.


Swaddled as a newborn till he unswaddled himself...then blanket sleepers.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:08     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gift cards are helpful, but I wouldn’t do UberEats or Doordash (I’d never use these services, who wants their food in a random car). If not Amazon/Target I think the PP with the thermometer post is spot on. You could also do a small gift basket with infant Tylenol, gripe water, aquafor, etc. Things that will get used. Sleep sacks are great and new parents underestimate how many they’ll use. The zip up infant ones are lifesavers in the first few weeks. Also magnetic snap pjs (pricey but lovely to have).

Please do not gift a blanket….so many blankets!!


And we never used a single sleep sack..


Did you swaddle? What did you do when the baby couldn’t be swaddled anymore but was too young for a loose blanket in the crib? Just curious.


OP here but not the one who made that comment.

I did not swaddle my own kids. They were born in the summer and it seemed too hot. As newborns they slept in onesies or little shirts and diapers. When it got cold, they slept in warm pjs with feet.

But there are definitely sleep sacks and swaddles and all the things in the hand me downs coming this baby's way.

The registry was very pragmatic, and included the thermometer and boogie things. Otherwise those would be great suggestions!
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:04     Subject: Re:Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
Toy subscription like Lovevery, food subscription when they start solids like Little Spoon.

Gift card to Target / Amazon.



Anonymous
Post 04/14/2023 12:00     Subject: Baby shower gift for minimalists with lots of hand me downs
toy rental subscription from tinyearthtoys.com its pricy but as a minimalist mom i love it. after two months i pack up the baby toys and mail them someplace not my living floor.

please no blankets, no onesies, no baby junk.

also when my nephew was born i was poor and wrote him a LONG letter about the world and his parents and what was going on with all of us at the time and my sibling still has the letter years later.