New baby survival kit

[chirpygirl]

So, I am putting one together for my friends...so far we have

Soft baby rattle
England trainers (it is a Welsh baby living in England...)
Haynes baby manual
Strong instant coffee
Travel mug for above so it can be drunk while BFing
Camomile Tea
Big Bar of Chocolate
Eye mask for sleeping in daytime
Hand cream
A book
CD of relaxing classical music
Ashtons powders

Anything else?!

baby sling like a coorie.

wouldn't they prefer welsh trainers?

what about cooking her a couple of meals she could put in the frezzer?

calpol
bonjela
earplugs

trainers?

at least get an England babygrow that it might actually wear (if only when it's been sick on everything else)

Do not disturb, new mum sleeping! sign

She has my wilkinet and a huggababy already.

The joke about the trainers is that DH and I are englisha nd live in wales with a welsh baby (she was born here) and they are the total opposite!
I shall get a welsh hat or something though, easier for me than them!

Earplugs is good!

arnica
nipple cream
maternity nurse
a cleaner....

A huge bottle of vodka

It did come with a babygrow but DD puked on it!
DD never wore the trainers!

Touch eclat

My top tips for life with a newborn are technological:

• a phone with a 'Do Not Disturb' feature. This allows you to screen out unwelcome calls from your MIL but allow your mum to contact you

• a hard disk recorder, with many hundreds of hours of good-but-trash telly like SATC recorded on it. Then when you are pinned down with a refluxy newborn who can't sleep flat, you can while away the hours lying on the sofa and not risk disturbing baby by getting up to change the DVD.

Not sure you will want to put either of those in your survival kit but you might want to suggest them to your friend!

I'm with MrsB re: the trainers. Babygro yes but why would a newborn wear trainers?

god yes i agree about the meals to go in the freezer, that was the SINGLE most brilliant thing people did for us after we had DS

Lansinoh?

Oh they do gorgeous wales rugby sleepsuits - get one of em!!

What about some made up vouchers that she can 'cash' in over the next few weeks ie for you to do some ironing for her, babysit, clean the house etc etc.

where, Flamey, where?

(need one for Welsh Jewish Chinese Australian baby due in the summer)

and please do not get any sports related clothing - a total waste of money & she will not put her baby in them.

One word - pikey

ok, chirpygirl has already said that she lives in wales and her friend in england, so meals and offers of help are no good.

she's also already said that the trainers came with a babygro that her dd had so she's not going out to buy them, just sending them as a joke.

i'd go with the suggestions of calpol, bonjela, infacol, lanisoh, earplugs, refreshing eyedrops, that kind of thing.

here

Jolie - Some people do dress their children in sports wear (a lot judging by the clothes bought for DS ). Sleepsuit sports wear is different somehow too... mainly due to its staying in bed-ness!

oh terrific, thanks flamey!
(Now to find an Aussie one to console the mother...)

New-born soother/dummy. Whether they are for or against them doesn't matter - there is a good chance that at 3.00am one morning they will go frantically rooting through your basket of gifts searching for it!

dunno if they ship UK

Flame I agree, we got SO much sports related clothing when we had our little boy - DH is a HUGE rugby, golf, football fan and people seemed to think it was a perfect gift therefore to spend loads on related clothing to create a mini DH! I could just never bring myself to put DS in them, bed time or day time, I just think they look awful and they are now gathering dust somewhere totally unworn

(NB Flame, any chance you could look at a dull dull nappy thread ?)