Gift for friends adopting

[MrsBlackburnsBrambleJam]

Posted on the adoption board but it's not very active over there. I'd appreciate some help!

My friend will soon adopt a baby with her husband and I wanted to get them a present. Would the book Bye Bye Baby be OK? Any other suggestions for nice things to get?

Thanks!

No I wouldn’t get Bye Bye baby… isn’t that an about a baby looking for a mum????

why not a classic Each Peach Pear Plum? Or any other baby gift tbh- most baby gifts don’t directly require the person to have given birth… just don’t choose a card that says “on the birth of your…”

Adoptive parent here. I'm not familiar with that book but when we adopted we got clothes and toys as presents just as you'd get for a baby being born into a family.

Personally I would just get them whatever you would give to anyone else who had just had a baby. The emphasis shouldn't be on the adoption unless you know that's what they want.

Agreed wouldn't go for anything that is adoption specific. It will be a tough and beautiful time after the point they adopt, emotions will be high. So just do as you would typically, clothes, toys, food for new parents (cook vouchers are good), keepsake etc. Id say its not your place to reference the adoptive element of their new child.

I just googled that book. I would get an adoption book for them. We have a lot of adoption themed books but DH and I chose them ourselves based on what we thought would be meaningful for our kids.
I loved "each peach" and anything by Julia Donaldson.

As an adopter, I was very happy to receive age appropriate toys/clothes/story books from friends and family. It is a child, at the end of the day, not just "an adopted child" and the fact that the child was welcomed was the important bit.

Just get them what you’d get anyone else who had a baby?!?!?!

I would not get an adoption book.

I gave friends who adopted the same gift I give when friends give birth: a Cook meal box. It went over so well I ended up sending them another.

The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett is a lovely story of a duck finding an egg and hatching it.

As adoptive parents we’ve used this twice and recommend it to others as a gift
https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Family-Journey-Adoptive-Families/dp/0811857379/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XZ0LYXI8BT2I&keywords=adoption+baby+book&qid=1700872399&sprefix=adoption+baby%2Caps%2C70&sr=8-1

I'm gutted - my go to gift for those on the adoption journey has sold out
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/988576208/the-social-worker-is-coming-dustpan?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details