New mum/dad survival kit

[RosieJ1]

Hello
I have friends who are expecting their first child in December.
I was hoping to put together a new mum and new dad 'survival kit' for them.
I'm not a parent myself so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas/thoughts that would be good to include?
I was thinking along the lines of treats, teabags, relaxing bath products etc
Thank you in advance!

I did one of these for my brother

I got him a ton of snacks and drinks for the night feeds, plus a voucher for him and his wife to go out for the day when the baby was a little older. Went down a treat!

Deliveroo voucher

You'd be better off getting this moved to 'Parenting' -- but there are lots of threads on this already if you do a search. The consensus is usually that meal/takeaway vouchers are way more useful than teabags and relaxing bath products. When I had DS, DH had just been made redundant and had had to take a distant job, so no paternity leave and he was out of the house from 7 am till 8 pm at night, and I was so tired I thought the floor was talking to me. I wouldn't have known what to do with bath products. I was barely taking showers.

I would also add dry shampoo! I’ve gone through tonnes of the stuff in the past year. Certainly don’t have time or opportunity for relaxing baths!

Snacks definitely, but also in advance either cook them or buy them some good meals they can freeze, assuming they have the space. So invaluable to have healthy food when you’re too tired to cook.

I liked receiving nice hand cream as endless handwashing with nappies/bottles etc made them super dry. And also a thoughtful friend bought a nice lip gloss that I could slap on to feel more put together.

We got Deliveroo and Cook vouchers which were brilliant in the first few weeks.

Great idea about the hand lotion - my hands were a bleeding (literally) mess!