Adding a Touch of ‘Extra Special’ to Baby Gifts

Anyone can choose a baby gift, so how do you make the gift extra special? Friends and family find themselves often asking this question because handing an expecting mother some baby clothes the child will outgrow in a month just doesn’t seem like enough. There are lots of ways to add a personal and enduring ‘something special’ to your gift including giving keepsakes and tucking a gift for the future into a gift of the present.

Keepsakes Become Heirlooms

Moms-to-be always need diaper bags, bibs, clothes, baby bedding and so much more. It’s amazing how much one little baby requires. You can almost see the relief in the new mother’s eyes when she opens a gift and finds something useful and practical like a travel pod or a bottle drying rack.

It’s important to give something practical because taking care of an infant fills a day with practical tasks like feeding, dressing and keeping baby dry and content. On the other hand, life is made up of more than just practical events. If it wasn’t, we would never make scrapbooks or take pictures.

Along with the practical gift, there should be keepsake gifts. Keepsakes become heirlooms through the generations. How many homes could we enter and find baby items displayed in the knick-knack cabinet? The engraved baby jewelry, the name plaque with a child’s name, the 24 carat gold etched porcelain Limoges trinket box are all gifts that are handed down through the generations. They let the family members yet to be born know that this child was welcomed with open loving arms and people loved the baby enough to give an enduring keepsake.

Blending the Keepsake with the Practical

The keepsake gifts can be included with the practical gifts too. For example, you can wrap the engraved silver bracelet in a very practical set of bibs. The pink or blue Limoges trinket box can be nestled in one of the baby gift baskets. When the mother-to-be discovers the surprise keepsake baby gift, the practical gift will be set aside for a moment. Of course, the practical baby gift takes precedence when baby needs changing or feeding.

It can be difficult to choose between a completely practical gift and one that will become a treasured heirloom. That’s because any mother knows that babies need so many items. It’s important to keep in mind though that this baby is a one-of-a-kind human being and marking the birth with an item that can passed from generation to generation gives honor to the uniqueness of this tiny individual.

Present and Future in Baby Gifts

The truth is that adding keepsake gifts to the practical gifts creates lasting memories too. In a few years, the baby blankets will be worn out and forgotten. Doing their duty when needed, they are discarded once the infant gets to a certain age.

The keepsake gift, on the other hand, endures. Each time the mother looks at it through the years, the happiness felt at the time of the child’s birth will be remembered. That’s why you should buy a Petunia Pickle Bottom baby bag and then tuck an engraved baby item inside. This makes a baby gift that is practical and memorable. It’s the present and future presented together.