Baby Shower
You care about this person. They’re your friend, your sibling, your partner, someone you love. You want to get this right. Sure you want to be practical. Of course you’re going to get them things that they will actually use. But you also want them to know that you were listening, that you didn’t just troll a registry you wanted them to know that you cared enough about this moment to choose these gifts for them. Because this moment is big. Someone you love is having a baby. Baby showers have defaulted to piles of matching white and grey tiny clothes that all look the same and enough muslin cloths to make it seem like they’ll be using them as currency before the baby is even born. We wanted more than that.
Within these pages you’ll find gifts picked for the humans on the receiving end, rather than the baby registry they probably filled. Gifts for the parent. The partner. For the person excited about this little human that also might legitimately panic think about in the middle of the night. Gifts that make them feel like a person too, rather than a recipient of someone else’s miracle. Some of these gifts will come in handy in the really small hours. Some of them are beautiful and aspirational in a way that makes this feel less like a chore and more like a gift to you both. None of it was included because ‘everyone gets that’ or it can be bought in bulk and was forgotten by the time it came to wrap.
We don’t like buying pointless things just because we can make it look like we spent a lot of money. But we also don’t like buying something oversized just because we feel like we have to make a statement. We like buying something that feels right. Sometimes that’s expensive. Sometimes it isn’t. But always it’s had a thought behind it.
We’ve also spent a long time thinking about the gifts for guests. Not your best friend. Not the person who already knows everything about the parent and child. But the folks who want to get something that will hit just right and never fear; we have spent just as much time on these gifts as the ones for the proud parents. The middle is hard. Gifts that fall into that Goldilocks zone are tricky to find. But here they are. A curated list that’s short enough to make choosing feel manageable, and doesn’t include a single thing we wouldn’t gift ourselves.