Sister having a baby, want to get a present that will really mean something

hazyjo

Personalised blanket...

Some great ideas on here: http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/gifts/shop-by-occasion/new-baby?utf8=%E2%9C%93&view=many&filter%5Bdelivery_zone%5D=1&filter%5Bsort%5D=_price

(Selected New Baby, price high to low, show all.)

Jx

balletshoes

Do you know what the baby's name will be?

Once you do, you can research the meaning of the name and get a keepsake reflecting that.

Daxx

My friend recently bought another friends two boys as a christening present shares in Disney and then a stuffed disney toy to accompany it. Each quarter they get a dividend cheque in their name and it seemed more of a child friendly savings/investment.

rachiibell

Maysie wrote: »

I recently had a doll made for my little girl with some changeable clothes https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=442987149171191&set=a.442210622582177.1073742055.219662341503674&type=1&theater
they do whatever colour hair, clothing you want for it. I did actually get one last year as well and they made it from the strips of fabric i had taken off the bottom of my wedding dress.

I like the silver cast ideas but a bit hard to get until baby is here.

Just a suggestion but if you end up going with something for once baby is here and needed you could make a cute stork bundle (bit like a nappy cake but smaller and easier) with an iou for the gift in with a few nappys etc

That is the most adorable doll ever! I want one for me :rotfl:

Hermia

I have seen journals that you can fill in with details of the child's life. My friend bought a huge one (sorry, can't remember the name) which has a few pages for each year of someone's life from birth to old age! There is room for a photo and prompts to help you think of what to write. She fills it in at the end if each year and her daughter is going to take over when she is older.

The absolutely best christening present I got was a beautifully bound book of fairy stories. I used to look at it all the time when I was little and still cherish it.

lostinrates

Hermia wrote: »

I have seen journals that you can fill in with details of the child's life. My friend bought a huge one (sorry, can't remember the name) which has a few pages for each year of someone's life from birth to old age! There is room for a photo and prompts to help you think of what to write. She fills it in at the end if each year and her daughter is going to take over when she is older.

The absolutely best christening present I got was a beautifully bound book of fairy stories. I used to look at it all the time when I was little and still cherish it.

Actually, I second the books.

I too have beautiful picture books bought for me as a child, and they are treasured. I keep them, and some tattier ones, on bookshelves low down in our child's free house, and most little children who visit here know exactly where they are, go and fetch one and bring one over to read with me.

I tried to buy one of the poetry books I had as a child for our niece and found its totally un obtainable now. I realise a lot of my aesthetic taste is impacted by those books I had as a child.

Hermia

lostinrates wrote: »

Actually, I second the books.

I too have beautiful picture books bought for me as a child, and they are treasured. I keep them, and some tattier ones, on bookshelves low down in our child's free house, and most little children who visit here know exactly where they are, go and fetch one and bring one over to read with me.

I tried to buy one of the poetry books I had as a child for our niece and found its totally un obtainable now. I realise a lot of my aesthetic taste is impacted by those books I had as a child.

Definitely. The fairy story book I was given had illustrations in a sort of neo-gothic/Pre-Raphaelite style and it definitely influenced my taste in art. The stories were also the slightly darker versions and I adored them and I became hugely interested in folklore and the origins of fairy tales when I hit my teens. It is odd how one book that my aunt probably just bought because it looked pretty led to all this!

BargainJunky

When my children were born we invested any monetary gifts for their future. They both had first curl boxes, first tooth boxes, picture frames etc etc and they are sadly stuffed in a drawer so I would not recommend that sort of thing.

One thing I keep saying I wish I had bought them was a gold coin (Sovereign or Krugerand) with the year of their birth on. As the gold price has now dropped I'm seriously thinking of doing it now and keeping it until their 21st birthdays.

monty-doggy

How about a lovely steiff bear? They become heirlooms and the ones with white tags in their ears can become pretty valuable.

Kaz2904

I was about to suggest a sovereign with their year of birth on. I t could be an investment or a keepsake depending on the value of gold at the time. My Uncle bought one for my sister, then me, then my cousin on our 18th or 21st birthdays. I didn't get my year of birth . I still have mine (I've just turned 36) but my sister told me he sold hers not long after she got it for £30! That's horrifying as I know she will have spent that £30 on rubbish- ie not needed to pay for food or heating type rubbish.
This year, the same Uncle bought my 2 children and my sisters son 2 sovereigns. He rang us and asked permission before Christmas and explained that it was as an investment for their future and done within his allowance as he wants to reduce some of his inheritance tax obligations prior to his death. The receipts are in the envelopes and they ranged from £218 to £275 in the space of a few months. All bought from the same place. Gold is fluctuating wildly, it seems!


When DD was born, my Uncle (another one, who raised me), bought her a teddy bear. He brought it into the hospital for her the day after she was born and it is still in her bed now, and she's 12. My sister bought her a rabbit (teddy) for her first Christmas 6 weeks later and she still has that in her bed. None of her other teddies have made the grade but none of her other teddies were machine washable so they didn't go on adventures and were therefore not loved so much. DD brought a teddy bear to the hospital when she came with her Dad to collect DS (and me!). He still has it in his bed. He lost it when he was 5 on a RAF base and was distraught. I started a thread on here and Owen was returned .
Other things which my two have been bought along the years which are neither valuable or useful are stones. Geodes or fossils or jut polished stones. Both of them have a pile of stones arranged on their window sills and won't let me get rid of any of them. They are all treasured. I think that very little hands find it soothing holding a piece of solid smooth stone when they are unsettled, they tend to rub it. The headmistress at the infant school had a large polished quartz heart which she used to let the upset children hold onto so I guess all children felt soothed by the quartz.


You'll find something, but be prepared for it not to be an obvious choice