Practical Gift Ideas for New Parents and Their Babies (2025)

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• A Great TV Streamer (and No Lost Remote!)

  

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  This mightiness not beryllium your friend's first kid. That's a awesome thing, but if they've sewage a toddler astir nan location while dealing pinch nan newborn shape astatine nan aforesaid time, things mightiness beryllium going missing. Maybe their keys (grab them a Bluetooth tracker!) aliases possibly their TV remote, which is particularly heartbreaking erstwhile you're already exhausted and can't fig retired wherever it went.

  Google's caller TV Streamer is easy to group up, beautiful connected nan eyes, and is simply a bully betterment complete nan erstwhile Chromecast experience. (Read our afloat reappraisal here.) You tin moreover usage it to show and power your smart location devices and video feeds. But champion of all, there's a fastener connected nan superior instrumentality to make nan distant beep truthful that it's easier to find. —Nena Farrell

• A Lightweight Robe

  

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  Little Sleepies

  Women's Robe

  Postpartum sweats are nary joke. One infinitesimal you’re freezing, nan adjacent you’re drenched successful sweat. A lightweight clothes was fundamentally my 2nd tegument successful those early weeks. The Little Sleepies clothes is perfection: easy to propulsion connected and gaffe disconnected for feedings pinch nary tight waistband to fuss a tender postpartum tummy, and agelong capable successful lawsuit immoderate unexpected visitors driblet by. Made from 95 percent bamboo viscose and 5 percent spandex, it’s soft, stretchy and is thing I’ll support reaching for again and again. —Nicole Kinning

• A Sleek Diaper Bag

  

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  I adored this diaper container for my early parenting days. For nan first year, everything is mini (like your baby!) and I recovered nan Béis Diaper Pack was nan cleanable companion. The container is cleanable for errands and short outings and tin fresh plentifulness of diapers, wipes, other onesies, a mates of soft toys, and a 5-ounce bottle. It besides comes pinch a changing pad, which sits successful its ain pocket. It's excessively large to genuinely deterioration arsenic a comfortable hep pack, but it's nan cleanable size for immoderate genitor to sling crossed their backmost earlier scooping up their infant. —Nena Farrell

• For Top-Notch Meal Planning

  

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  Souper Cubes

  Silicone Freezer Trays

  When I was a caller parent, repast prepping whitethorn person really saved my life. My mom prepped a bunch of freezer meals successful individual portions earlier my fussy, colicky-to-the-extreme boy was born, and if it weren't for those, my hubby and I would person lived connected Coke Zero and pretzels for months, risking malnutrition and regular menty b's. (OK, those whitethorn person been happening anyway.) These portioned silicone freezer trays would person been a game-changer for some maine and for anyone helping me. They tin beryllium utilized for afloat portioned lunches, pre-cooked vegetables, and babe food. There are trays for 2-cup, 1-cup, ½-cup, and 2-tablespoon portions, each pinch lids truthful they’re stackable.

  You’ve astir apt seen cheaper versions of these elsewhere, but nan brand-name Souper Cube ones are worthy it, arsenic they're stain-resistant, odor-resistant, microwave-safe, and good for nan dishwasher, and nan sides are somewhat rigid, truthful nan contents aren’t easy spilled aliases knocked over. Souper Cube besides makes a group of 4 stoneware dishes that judge nan 1-cup rectangles perfectly, for defrosting and past baking successful 1 go. I for illustration to pre-freeze cookware pastry filling and past adhd a crust to nan apical for a speedy dinner. —Kat Merck

• An Electric Nail Trimmer

  

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  Qunlions Life

  Electric Baby Nail Trimmer

  The first clip we clipped my baby’s nails, my hubby accidentally nicked her mini finger. Safe to say, it was traumatic for each involved. After, I panic-ordered this electrical nail trimmer and haven’t looked back. It’s easy, reliable, and nan champion portion is that my girl doesn’t flinch erstwhile I’m trimming her nails. It comes pinch different record grits that turn pinch your baby’s nail needs, and there’s moreover a built-in ray if you do your champion mani activity while babe is sleeping. —Nicole Kinning

• A Cozy Carrier

  

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  Wildbird

  Aerial Baby Carrier

  What amazed maine astir about caller parenthood wasn’t nan deficiency of sleep, but really overmuch cogwheel you abruptly need. A bully bearer quickly proved basal to free up my hands, calm my baby, and prevention my back. The Wildbird Aerial is nan 1 I scope for most. It’s sturdy, stylish (mine’s successful Desert Lark, an earthy taupe), and is super-comfortably made from breathable linen pinch a padded waistband and crisscross straps. The setup takes practice, but erstwhile you nail it, it feels unafraid and easy to stock betwixt caregivers. —Nicole Kinning

• A Weighted Wipe Dispenser

  

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  Oxo

  Perfect Pull Wipes Dispenser

  When it comes to underrated nursery items, this 1 takes nan cake. The Oxo Perfect Pull Wipes Dispenser’s magic is successful its weighted plate, which holds nan remainder of nan wipes down while you pull. If you’ve ever had to frantically tug wipes retired of their flimsy integrative packaging pinch a squirming, soiled baby, you cognize why this matters. The dispenser’s spring-loaded lid is easy to flip unfastened pinch 1 hand, and nan tight seal keeps wipes from drying retired betwixt changes. —Nicole Kinning

• A Leakproof Water Bottle

  

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  Owala

  FreeSip Water Bottle

  Postpartum had maine trapped connected nan sofa pinned underneath a sleeping newborn for what felt for illustration hours connected end. The Owala FreeSip was my bestie during this time. The lid seals shut, truthful I could flip nan alloy beside maine without worrying astir leaks, and it flips backmost unfastened pinch a elemental one-handed fastener push. The built-in straw made quenching my breastfeeding thirst easy, and nan stainless alloy constitution kept nan h2o ice-cold passim agelong nights. —Nicole Kinning

• Transform a Stroller Into a Rocker

  

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  This is 1 of my favourite gifts we sewage that wasn't connected immoderate registry aliases database we had. Our champion friend talented america nan Rockit aft seeing that we could connect it to immoderate stroller and usage it to lull our babe to sleep. And it worked! It was useful to move connected whenever we took a agelong region connected a walk, for illustration astatine a farmers' marketplace booth aliases chatting pinch a neighbor, to support my boy from waking backmost up owed to nan deficiency of movement. It can't full-on move nan stroller backmost and distant for illustration nan Cybex e-Gazelle S (Read our review), but it's nan adjacent champion thing. —Nena Farrell

• A Thermostat for Baby's Room

  

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  Google

  Nest Learning Thermostat (4th Generation)

  OK, nan thermostat itself doesn't spell successful nan nursery—it'll still spell connected your regular thermostat spot, wherever that is successful your home—but nan Google Nest Learning Thermostat (4th Gen) (Read our afloat reappraisal here) comes pinch a somesthesia sensor that you tin spot successful immoderate room successful your house, and past person nan thermostat move connected nan AC aliases heater based connected that room's somesthesia alternatively of immoderate room nan thermostat is in. It's ace handy, since keeping everything bully and temperate for a small 1 tin beryllium nan quality betwixt a bully night's slumber and a bad night's sleep. It tin beryllium a information factor, too, if you unrecorded location that gets particularly basking aliases particularly cold. It's easy to power successful nan app to group up schedules, and nan thermostat will study schedules complete clip and propose things too. —Nena Farrell

• For Overstimulated Moments

  

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  Being a caller genitor is an onslaught of exhaustion mixed pinch a batch of noise, particularly if you person a fussy baby. There are immoderate days wherever babies conscionable request to outcry it out; immoderate kiddos are conscionable colicky and thin to outcry much than others. If your genitor friend is talking astir really overmuch they can't grip nan crying anymore, get them a brace of Loop Experience 2s.

  These earplugs are designed for concerts to make nan euphony a safer decibel, but I recovered them useful to drawback connected meltdown-heavy days truthful I could still perceive my kid, but didn't want to rip disconnected my tegument anymore astatine nan sound of screaming. This helps maine enactment calm, which successful turn, helps babe calm down, too. Plus they travel successful nosy colors and person a mini lawsuit you tin easy connect to your keys (it's wherever I support mine!) truthful it's useful for abrupt large locations. —Nena Farrell

• A Quick Masher

  

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  If you want to bargain a caller genitor thing they mightiness not get for themselves, you mightiness want to see a baby-food maker. Many caller parents mightiness deliberation it's a luxury, particularly pinch captious grandparents shouting, "In my day, we mashed nutrient pinch forks!" But for a year, nan Babycook helped maine provender a quiet babe who was conscionable excessively grouchy and impatient to gum down cut-up pieces of cooked carrot.

  Whenever WIRED reviewer Adrienne So was cooking meal for nan remainder of her family, she simply threw a mates pieces of nutrient into nan Babycook. You tin steam and mash pinch azygous servings aliases aggregate ones, successful an appliance that takes up very small room connected nan antagonistic and is easy to clean. She could navigator respective days' worthy of nutrient astatine a clip and either frost it aliases shop it successful nan fridge. —Nena Farrell

• A Brand-New Kindle

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  Amazon

  Kindle (2024, 11th Generation)

  There's a new Kindle connected nan block, and moreover though I'm not a caller genitor anymore, I'm dying to beryllium talented it this vacation season. (Mom, if you're reference this, I'd for illustration nan matcha greenish color.) Getting a Kindle erstwhile my boy was 3 months aged for my day was nan champion gift I could person hoped for, and I urge it to each my chap genitor readers.

  It's useful to drawback and easy connected nan eyes for those 2 americium feedings you're trying to enactment awake for, and it was truthful bully to drawback a book alternatively of scrolling done nan net during those wee hours of nan greeting aliases during different short daytime interaction nap. I grabbed a room paper and started getting books done Libby to nonstop to my Kindle, but you could adhd a Kindle gift paper (or springiness a gift card if you cognize they already person a Kindle!). —Nena Farrell

• Convenient Lighting

  

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  Smart lights are great. You tin usage them to execute each kinds of things. As a caller parent, they're awesome for having gentle lighting for nan nursery astatine nan touch of a button, aliases creating temper lighting for their chamber to thief them upwind down astatine nighttime aliases aftermath up successful nan morning. Smart lights tin beryllium group connected a schedule aliases activated by sound aliases mobility sensors, truthful your favourite sleepy caller parents tin alteration nan lights without having to get up and scope nan ray switch.

  And if you've ever been trapped nether a sleeping babe you don't want to disturb, you cognize really convenient that tin be. Philips Hue's starter kits are a awesome bundle to gift, since they see nan Philips Hue Bridge to link nan lights to, a mates of bulbs, and sometimes different useful accessories to brace pinch their caller ray bulbs. —Nena Farrell

• A Double-Walled Kettle

  

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  Beautiful Electric Kettle

  New babies mean small hands that you person to support safe from basking surfaces. If nan parents successful your life are obsessive beverage drinkers for illustration I am, aliases pour-over java fans, get them our favourite electrical kettle arsenic a gift. Not only is it beautiful connected nan eyes and easy connected nan wallet, but it has a ton of preset temperatures for their tired brains to quickly pat nan 1 they need, and it's double-walled, truthful swinging babe hands (and yet rambunctious toddler hands) won't get burned if they accidentally touch it. —Nena Farrell

• A Nose Unplugger

  

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  Fridababy

  Electric NoseFrida

  This is simply a fact: Newly calved humans are truthful mini that they can't rustle their ain noses. Amazing! Through nan first twelvemonth and particularly into a cold-infested toddlerhood, this useful electrical nasal aspirator has been worthy its weight successful gold. It's been overmuch easier to get this aspirator into my son's nostril and deed nan On fastener alternatively than wrangle some him and a tube, past manually sucking nan snot retired earlier he rips his caput distant from nan contraption.

  Frida has a full statement of attractive, no-nonsense solutions to different communal babe issues, for illustration passing gas and cradle cap, but nan nasal aspirators are our favourite (though I'm besides a instrumentality of nan cheaper, manual nasal aspirator). Every genitor needs a fast, effective measurement of giving their small illness vector immoderate nasal relief. —Nena Farrell

• A Good-Looking Baby Monitor

  

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  Eufy

  SpaceView Baby Monitor

  This video show looks bully and will service a genitor moreover aft their kid tin commencement crawling, moving astir more, aliases getting retired of bed. An easy prime is nan affordable (in nan world of babe monitors) Eufy SpaceView. It doesn’t require Wi-Fi and alternatively uses much reliable FHSS power connection. It's simpler to group up and much unafraid than utilizing Wi-Fi. Check retired our guideline to nan Best Baby Monitors for much suggestions. —Nena Farrell

• A Digital Photo Frame

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  Another spot to put those thousands of photos connected your telephone is onto a integer photograph frame. I emotion utilizing Aura's frames since you tin adhd photos easy done nan Aura app, aliases conscionable link it to a files successful Google Photos. Little ones alteration truthful overmuch successful their early months (and each nan years after), truthful it's specified a dainty to spot a photograph popular up pinch really mini your kid was conscionable a fewer months ago.

  It's easy for family members to adhd to, and easy to adhd to different integer photograph frames that mightiness beryllium astatine Grandma and Grandpa's house. They want to spot nan photos too, aft all! —Nena Farrell

• A Bag for Frequent Travelers

  

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  No Reception Club

  Hideaway Duffel

  In immoderate ways, walking erstwhile your babe is small is easier than wrangling them during nan toddler years (less request for entertaining!).

  For those parents who you cognize emotion to travel, aliases can't debar level trips moreover though they've sewage a small one, No Reception Club's duffel container is supremely handy. It has an included organizing insert, aggregate ways to transportation it, and respective pockets to support everything—including, possibly astir important, an insulated pouch successful nan front. It's cleanable for babe bottles, pumped milk, aliases moreover toddler snacks that request to enactment cool. —Nena Farrell

• Mess-Proof Car Mats

  

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  If your giftee plans connected transporting babies—and, later, kids—in their vehicle, they should cognize correct distant that cloth is not their friend. Not connected nan seats, and surely not connected nan floor, wherever it will sorb each mode of spills, food, and bodily fluids.

  I person 2 of nan aforesaid make and akin exemplary vehicles, 1 pinch nan pricey “real” rubber mats from nan dealership, and 1 pinch these aftermarket 3W rubber mats. Honestly, I for illustration nan 3W mats better. They’re a tighter fresh pinch a articulator truthful food, leaves, and ungraded don't get underneath them, and they’re easy to spray down if they get muddy. Your recipient mightiness deliberation this is benignant of a weird gift astatine first if they’re a brand-new parent, but spot me—they will convey you. Prices alteration by model, but look to commencement astatine astir $130. —Kat Merck