Mum to be looking for tips on best/most useful present to buy friend who has just given birth

[Wobblywheels]

Hi,

I'm currently pregnant with my first child. My cousins wife has just given birth to their first baby and I want to buy something useful as a present.

We don't see them often as they live at the other end of the country to us so I want to make whatever we buy count.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated thanks.

I got a big basket full of stuff like nappies wipes chocolate [for me] teddy muslins etc. it was fab!

For something easier, a swaddle wrap was used daily think it was called a GroSwaddle from john lewis. Or a really nice blanket which weve used daily on her buggy.

Nice blankets are always good, John Lewis have some lovely ones at the moment. Muslins definitely a great and useful present. Take-away vouchers?

Send her a supermarket order of decent ready meals. The best present we got when DD was born last year was a box of M&S food: two veggie meals, two meaty meals, two toddler meals, six puddings, a packet of biscuits and a box of tea bags. If they live a way away, you could do something similar with Ocado.

Here's a lovely idea for a low cost new baby present:

www.thekitchn.com/new-baby-taco-box-167963

My MIL sent me this gorgeous box of babygros and muslins, all folded up to look like an amazing bunch of flowers. I was dead impressed! Clothes in particular were very welcome. Less useful things included a swaddle blanket (DS hated being swaddled! You just can't predict...) and soft toys and rattles.