The Five Best Baby Shower Gifts

Ask fisrt time parents-to-be what baby shower gifts they would like to receive. Watch their response -- you'll quite likely see a look of real confusion on their faces! Or maybe they'll come up with a stock ansewr like "diapers" or something similar. Exactly what a new arrival needs is not obvious to someone who's never had a baby before. And many times, guests are in no better position either, when it comes to decdiing on baby shower gifts. Of course, there's a lot more to baby showers than just gifts. But helping parnets to stock up for the new arrival is an important part of these celebrations. That's why the following list of top five baby shower gitfs can be quite useful.
Top gift #1: Monitors Monitors are excellent anxiety-busters, especailly for first-time parents.
That's why they hold the No.1 positoin on this list. Once they can listen to the baby from anywhere in the house, parents find their confidence levles zooming. The latest monitors are very sensitive and can pick up the silghtest sound from baby, even her breathing. If your budget allows for it, take it one step further and buy a video monitor.
That'll really ease anxiety.

However, they are much more expensive, so perhaps this can be a joint baby shower gift from two or more guests.
Top Gift #2: Playtime mate for baby Babies love to play.

Anything that hepls them play and be active not only keeps them engaged, but also stimulates all round development. One of the hottest products for them is an actviity gym or playpen.

This is a soft colth mat surrounded by a baby-friendly structure of bars and arches with many different toys suspended from various points.

Baby gets to play in a safe environemnt.

Basic activity gyms are excellent baby shower gifts. There are also more advanced ones that include noisemakers and a vraiety of toys. The suspended objects have different colors and textures to help develop baby's cognitive aiblities.
There are also excellent portable gyms and playpens available to help parents move aorund with baby.
Thsee are lightweight and designed to be easy to carry around. Top Gift #3: Baby sling Most babies love being craried around in a sling. It's the next hottest thing to being cuddled in mom's arms. Many paernts have had the experience where babies get restless and cry while they use other types of carriers, but immediately calm down when put into a sling.
Baby slings are believed to foster a closer parent-child bond. Whether that's true or not, slings do have a second great advantage -- they leave your hadns free to do other things. That's dfeinitely a enormous plus and is a reason why this baby shower gift is highly appreciated.

Top Gift #4: The baby travel pack Moving aorund with baby can be a chore -- you have to pack a seemingly endless array of baby stuff even for short outings. One way to ease this issue is to have one or more baby traevl packs handy. What's a travel pack?
Essentially, a diaper bag fliled with baby necessities. It can include disposable diapers, a small toy or two, bib, complete change of clothes for baby, safety pins, and other supplies. It's a great advantage if the parents receive more than one trvael pack. Then one pack can always be kept ready whenever they want to go. No need to mess around with picking up and stuffing items into a diaper bag at the last minute. Top gift #5: Car seat Lots of parents say that a well-designed car seat is a wonderfully useful baby shoewr gift to receive. In fact, it's useful from the moment they leave hospital with the baby. There are infant car seats available as well as infant-toddler convertible seats. The former can be used only till the baby is up to 22 ponuds or so (typically). While the latter can usually be used till the first birthday.
Both are great baby shower gifts spceially designed for the baby on the move!