New baby gift

[isabel]

A guy in our company just had a baby. I need to send a gift. We're going to do flowers, but I also want to send something useful, like a snack basket or something. Anyone have good suggestions?

[adhdfashion]

Coffe basket.

[kaybee85]

We got a basket of fresh fruit which was AWESOME. It was nice to have it with the slow cooker meals/fast food we were often eating.

[ang01]

Restaurant gift cards because cooking meals and figuring out dinner is so difficult with a newborn. Also diapers, you just can never have enough but get size 1 or 2 and not newborn. My 9.5 lb'er was in size 1 right away. Coffee basket is also a good idea !

[rupertpenny]

I would have wanted to murder someone who sent me flowers. Hey, thanks for something totally useless that will die and I will be responsible for cleaning up! I was very grumpy postpartum obviously.

Can you add an Amazon gift card or something like that?

[papie]

COOKIES. I was starving after giving birth and with breastfeeding and couldn't get enough cookies. Can you order from a bakery?

[vikingfan4]

My favourite gift basket was the one with fruit in it. It was much nicer to snack on fruit in the middle of the night than the heavy desserts and casseroles people kept bringing.

[papie]

Oct 14, 2015 9:13:09 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

I would have wanted to murder someone who sent me flowers. Hey, thanks for something totally useless that will die and I will be responsible for cleaning up! I was very grumpy postpartum obviously.

Can you add an Amazon gift card or something like that?

lol what?

I just left my flowers in the hospital to die, but it made the room pretty while I was there.  Then my mom flipped that she paid $75 and why did I not bring them home.  But that is a different story obviously.  

[rupertpenny]

Oct 14, 2015 9:15:51 GMT -5 papie said:

Oct 14, 2015 9:13:09 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

I would have wanted to murder someone who sent me flowers. Hey, thanks for something totally useless that will die and I will be responsible for cleaning up! I was very grumpy postpartum obviously.

Can you add an Amazon gift card or something like that?

lol what?

I just left my flowers in the hospital to die, but it made the room pretty while I was there.  Then my mom flipped that she paid $75 and why did I not bring them home.  But that is a different story obviously.  

I said I was grumpy then!

Two plus years later I can see that it's a well meaning gesture, but At the time I would have seen red.

[cbwm1]

Skip the flowers. Focus your money on food/restaurant gift cards.

[revolution]

Cookies
Edible Arrangement of fruit
basket of snacks that are easy to grab and eat (Harry and David type)

[cleo29]

Nipple cream...I joke. Kinda.

My sister got something where she could choose which meals she wanted delivered. Fruit.

[christy082]

My favorite thing we received after I came home was an edible arrangement. It was so nice having fresh fruit in the house without having to go to the store.

[Deleted]

My friends have most appreciated food/gift card for food, gift cards for target/Amazon etc