Xmas present ideas for newborn?

[Deegibx]

Hi everyone,

I want to get my 6 and a half week old some Christmas presents. Just a couple, obviously I know she’s going to have no idea, be able to open them etc but that’s why I have no idea what to get her. Ideally I want things that will also be useful, not buy things just for the sake of it. FTM here :) she has plenty of rattles now…. any ideas please? X

Blanket, dummy, teddy, any baby toy that makes noise. At that age you could give them a spoon and they'd be thrilled

Start off a bank account?

Think of things you’ll need over the next year? So some decent weaning bibs and bowls/cutlery? A baby gym or play mat? If you’re a FTM you have a lot of choice at this point as you don’t already have stuff from previous children

Stacking cups
Bath toy
Light up ball
Soft stacking blocks
Nice outfit

A sensory box with a mini maraca, foil blanket, light up ball etc. in it. I bought my sons around that age and it's so cheap and so useful for play when they're tiny. Great for helping encourage tummy time enjoyment. He's almost 8 months and we still use the stuff all the time

I got my Christmassy newborn a hard backed copy of one of my favourite childhood books and wrote her a message in it.

A blanket for the pram
A bauble (start a tradition one a year)
Books

Mine got nothing for their first Christmas, as mean as that sounds 😂 But I did open a bank account and put £100 in

A personalised nursery rhyme book from wonderbly (or another book from them)

I second the book. I got a gorgeous leather bound The Wind in the Willows and read it to my sons for years. I have put it up to pass to them when they are older.

The next size of clothes you need

A little piece of jewellery that she can keep. Imagine her at 21 treasuring the little bangle or whatever she got for her first Christmas.

Love the bauble idea!

This. Make a deposit. Buy some shares. Investment funds.

anything longterm.

they will thank you later.

Much better than wasting money on cutesy stuff they will have zero recollection of.

Buy a nice bottle of wine to taste together on their 18th birthday

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Mine loved these pat a cake books. Hours of fun she had looking at those. Maybe some of the “That’s not my…” books as well. Can’t go wrong with a book and they are nice to wrap for you!

I’ve got my 3 month old a hedgehog sensory kind of toy, I have a 2 year old as well though so still have SO many toys to be passed on. I’m going to get a baby footprints/handprints set as well.
My 2 year old got a sit me up, jumperoo and some 6 months+ toys for his first Christmas to see us through until his first birthday.

Things linked to ongoing Christmas traditions you might like to start
clothes and things you’d buy anyway
books
few age appropriate toys

Thank u so much everyone, brilliant ideas xxx

My DC1 was 10w old for first Christmas. I got a bauble for the Christmas tree, a nice hardback nursery rhyme book and wrote a message in it (still have mine from my first Christmas!), and some weaning bibs that were on offer at the right time.

@Margo34 thanks hun :)

I bought mine a gold bullion coin, took a picture with it, put it away. They will get it with the picture on their 18th, by which time it should have increased in value.

@Eixample ooo love that idea!

Black and white sensory book?
Finger puppets?
Bubbles/bubble machine?

I have brought a toy box