Womb to Bloom - Maternity & Beyond

There’s nothing more frustrating than getting a lovely present for your baby that is too small. It is so embarrassing to have to tell your friend that they bought the wrong size and have them return it. And then the poor friend! How upsetting it is to know that you misjudged the baby’s size and bought too small!

I know that when I go shopping for clothes for my daughter it is so hard not to buy the first cute outfit that looks like it will fit. There are so many adorable clothes out there and she’d look fantastic in so many of them. But she’s a big girl, and I just know that she’ll grow out of the stuff that is geared to her age in no time flat.

A lot of time and money are spent preparing for the arrival of your new baby.  Then, all of the sudden, the little punkin is here and you realize – Mom sure could use a few things too!  I was very lucky to have girlfriends who realized this in the days following the births of my kids. So, here are a few things to consider giving to the new moms in your life (or to think about asking for yourself!):

Although everyone told my husband and I that we would be up all night, every night, dealing with a newborn, we just assumed they meant that we would have to wake up a few times to change a diaper and feed the baby.

No one told us that being “up all night” literally meant being up perhaps every hour on the hour to deal with various kinds of cries, trial and error of burping techniques, spit ups, and any other discomforts our baby would have. And no one told us that this would happen at night AND in the morning AND in the afternoon AND in the evening AND at night again.

Friends and family who are looking for the perfect gift for a new mother can consider giving her something that is infinitely more precious than a bundle of baby clothes or a bunch of flowers.

What a new mother is in most desperate need of when she gets home with her baby is time: time for a relaxing bath, time to sleep, time to have an uninterrupted meal with her husband or partner, time to read a story to her older child without having to cut it short to care for the baby.