What would you get a 9 month old baby

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My daughter will be 9 months at Christmas. What did you buy your babies for Christmas?
I am aware she will have no idea but I feel like I need to get her something. Did you bother for your child’s first Christmas?

DD was nearly one for her first Christmas, and I got her stuff she’d have anyway - bubble bath, books, a new coat ect.

It’s a cliche, but the wrapping paper is the best but for them so I really wouldn’t get something special.

Thank you x

Pajamas
A toy box

I bought a jumperoo (2nd hand) and light up toys along with some small bath toys and a couple touchy feely books.

DS was a few weeks old we got the stuff you'll need for future Christmas like a sack (which we stuffed with a few pack of nappies) and a stocking plus some bits for him to grow into throughout the year.

They won't care but it's stuff you'll buy anyway so it's not like you're wasting money and the pictures are nice to look back at.

Cardboard boxes - best present ever at that age

Some stacking cardboard boxes sling these lines:
www.kidly.co.uk/products/vilac/animal-cardboard-nesting-cubes/25194?colour=multi&utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces&gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDdFpLDZesALtbKjDKKyqvZk7LZSkv4tOVOA-scAX0EbE4vdup3qWbhoCisoQAvD_BwE

Ours are still used 5 years later. At some stage they become obsessed with container schema.

Some soft stacking blocks such as these:

www.booghe.co.uk/products/galt-toys-baby-soft-blocks?variant=23994201505892&gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDePQDEa9zqn40WixHr2s8qat0m2u_s7ZYGhg6RD8ZobmiJY8NiVDiRoCiaoQAvD_BwE

A frog in a box
hellobabydirect.com/products/galt-frog-in-a-box?variant=42046993629437&gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDQzN5JuHzSDAcjFIHry4QkF64v-g8wwZQpLsFCbHyTjf-ku0oPCffxoCvYYQAvD_BwE

Bath toys

My LO will be almost 9 months and I have got him a Fisher Price Farm, a fidget book, aquadoodle and some stacking toys! Oh and books! Stuff that will grow with him too!

Mine where a spread of a few days shy of 1, 6 months old and 2 months old.

For their first xmases their big gifts where:

A huge plush bob the builder far bigger than him - 1 year
A ball pit and balls - 2 month old
Activity desk - 6 month old

The activity desk was a big hit, it had a Magnadoodle which by 9 months she was obsessed with (still love now nearly a year later).

Galt pop up toy
Stacking/nesting cups
Colourful silk scarves
Bath toys
Busy board

My advice would be that when they are little to buy one nice thing rather than lots of little bits. So; toy kitchen, slide/sandpit for garden, ride on toy, activity table

Mine will be 8 months...
I've got him three things. Stacking cups, a hey Duggee light abc sounds ball and a wooden activity block.

I've also got him a dressing gown as I got us all one either for first day of advent or Christmas Eve (haven't decided yet) 😊

@Beachloveramy so cute!
I like the idea of a dressing gown, thinking of getting a personalised dressing gown for mine as that’s all I could think of 😂

My DD will be 10m at Christmas.she is getting from us:
A push along tigger
Clothes
Pop up people
Push along trolley (free on Facebook!) and blocks to go in it
Vtech microphone
Hide and squeak eggs
A bath tidy
Giraffe tether
Book

And a stocking with:
Stacking cups
Wooden animals
Bath book and toy
Cup and cutlery
Paint brushes
Books
Wooden car
Puppet
Slinky
CD
Chocolate coins and a satsuma

I know she won't care but we still wanted to get her stuff and a lot/most is things we would have brought in the coming months anyway. All brought in sales or 2nd hand.

DS will be 6 months in December. We're getting this (they use light projectors at baby glowbugs and he loves them)

Probably that's it, maybe some bath toys as he'll probably be starting to need those then anyway. I really don't want to be a big huge pile of presents on Christmas Day family. Too much pressure!

Mainly clothes and necessities, Oldest 8moths got a couple of big Disney mini mouses, and a couple of the year she was born things. Number 2, similar and she was a similar age. number 3 (4months) I actually can’t remember, I think I rewrapped a few of the older ones toys. Bath toys are great for the first few years.

I got a hard backed copy of a previous book from my childhood - wrote an inscription and kept it for later

Mine will be 8 months old for her first Christmas. I have ordered her a personalised book, and I will be getting her a money box and a nice rag doll. I have a 7 year old DS whos birthday is 3 weeks before Christmas and I got him the same book (obvs with his name) and a money box for his first Christmas too x

I would avoid personalised items of clothing TBH. They fit their clothes for such a short time, and an item of clothing with a name on is so much harder to pass on/sell once outgrown.
I'd get a few token younger toddler toys and books (you can never have too many books!), and maybe wrap up the next size up of clothes if you already have some of it ready. It is only 3 months until their birthday when you'll get another influx and they really won't care or understand at that age (or even be able to open it themselves really), so it is purely for the adults/photos. If you want something big, the wooden activity cubes are really good and should have a good lifespan before they're outgrown. My DCs almost always gravitated towards the light up noisy plastic monstrosities over beautiful wooden toys however, so I ran with that.

My DCs were both 6mo for their first Christmases. DD1 got a selection of second hand (mostly V-tech-type) toddler toys and some books IIRC. Toys to grow into that she'd need any way, but it was mostly so there was something in the photographs when she looks back.
DD2 was trickier because we already had everything she needed, but for DD1's sake it was important they were treated fairly equally and both got a similar number of gifts. She got a (new) green singing cuddly Scout as her main present, which she still loves now age 6, plus a few books and some second hand toys.

What did you buy your babies for Christmas?

Empty boxes and paper. They both loved it!! 😁

The other things we bought, they didn't bother.

DD will be 10 months. She's my second child so has more than DS had for his first Christmas so he doesn't think Santa has forgotten her. Half of it is practical though. She's getting:

Vtech walker (£10 off marketplace)
Wooden rainbow for her room
Baby Annabel for babies
Hide and squeak eggs
Backpack and reins
Personalised dressing gown
Lift the flap book
Pyjamas
Fleece blanket
Disney Princess snack boxes

DS will be almost 10 months and we've got him a Baby Einstein wooden piano and guitar thing. It's aimed slightly older but he can make noise on it for now and can grow into it.

He is our second so he already has access to a lot of toys aimed at that age and we have a few second hand things from friends too. DD was a bit younger but sure she got lots of noisy/light up things and also next size up clothes that she was going to need anyway.

I got mine the little tikes activity garden. Not cheap but got loads of crawling/ pulling up play at the beginning indoors and then was a garden toy until about 5.

But we had loads of the smaller stuff as second born, so looking for something bigger/ special

Mine would have been almost 8 months.

Bought kids concept wooden pram. He was already walking by the January so used it almost straight away as Walker then pram. Now almost 2 years on, he still plays with it daily with teddies, doll, tool kit for ‘fixing’ it, as shopping trolley.