What do you buy for a pregnant couple?

[HEyHEY]

Trying to figure what I should buy my sister and her husband for Xmas.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. They're BOTH pregnant?

Dude, that's fucked up. I suggest you call the Weekly World News and sell the story.

[HEyHEY]

2. Told ya - same sex is okay up here!

[NNadir]

34. Depends on when they're due. If the baby's off for some time,

theater tickets and a dinner gift certificate would be wonderful. They'll probably remember that forever, since such opportunities will likely not come for quite some time.

A redeemable baby sitting coupon might not seem like much now, but it will someday...

[donheld]

3. I'd say it's a little late for the condoms

:evilgrin:

[HEyHEY]

5. Hey! - They wanted a kid!

[democracyindanger]

4. Her husband's pregnant, too?

I keed. Maybe a day of housekeeping--hire a person to come in one day and clean up when your sis is really preggers.

[HEyHEY]

7. Please....don't refer to my sister as "preggers"

;-)

[radwriter0555]

39. just think.. SHE HAD SEX.

You know, our close family members don't actually ever have sex.

[Sanity Claws]

6. Ideas

If you're close enough, you could find a maid service and give them a gift certificate for maid or housecleaning services. I'm sure they'd find that handy when the baby comes.
Maybe some books on parenthood or baby care.

[JimmyJazz]

8. You didn't give a price range.

However, and I mean this sincerely - if you could make them a coupon to cover the difference between a private room and a semi-private room, they would be eternally grateful. I had the WORST experience with my room mate when I had my first child that I ended up insisting on a private room, cost be damned.

It's not such an easy experience being a new mom and trying to nurse and having a room mate blaring Jerry Springer and yelling into a phone - and that's more common than you think.

For the second one, I was on a mission to have a private room. It's about $90 a night - But, believe me - you will be their new best friend!

[HEyHEY]

12. Money is no object!

AS long as it's no more than $50

[HEyHEY]

13. I'm confused

What do you mean? They own a house and are married...there's no roomates.

[JimmyJazz]

15. The room mate in the hospital - or does it work differently in

Canada? In the States, you get a room mate unless you pay extra for a private room.

[HEyHEY]

19. Oh - Socialized Healthcare...I don't believe you can bribe

Your way into a private room

Plus my sister's tough I doubt she'll even stay the night. She'll probably squeeze it out in the washroom at home

[JimmyJazz]

26. Oy - I forgot about socialized health care -

mea culpa. Then, in that case - how about some nice photo albums and some picture frames - seriously.

[Pithlet]

17. The hospital room.

Many hospitals make you share with at least one other person. I was lucky, and had a private room both times.

[Left Is Write]

36. My younger two children were born at hospitals that only had private rooms

My oldest was born in 1987, and I had to share a room.

My younger two were born in 1999 and 2002, at two different hospitals in two different states - but both had only private rooms. I would have been pretty ticked if I'd had to share a room, especially because I wanted to room in with the babies (I couldn't do that with my son, as he went to the NICU).

[Pithlet]

41. I roomed in with my firstborn.

The hospital was nice. Labor and delivery, and recovery were all in one big room. I never left the room from the time I checked in till the time I left. It was huge and decorated to look like a bedroom with wallpaper, cherry furniture (including a rocker), and a sofa bed for my husband to sleep on. The baby slept in a bassinet next to my bed. All the rooms were like that at that hospital. It was wonderful.

I couldn't room in with my second son because I got very sick after delivery. I still had a private room, but it was a typical hospital room.

[AlCzervik]

9. Do you want the gift to be baby related?

[HEyHEY]

14. not strictly if it is - something helpful i fnot something to take their

minds off having a baby for a night

[AlCzervik]

18. Maybe a gift cert for the 2 of them to have a massage

i would have dearly loved that after i had my daughter.

[juliagoolia]

10. If you are close enough

Give them a certificate for babysitting and naptime..

Like you owe them 10 hours of free time to sleep or whatever.

That will be the most needed thing. OR......

Maid service for the week after the baby is born?

Things like this help a lot.

[maveric]

11. A gift certificate for disposable diapers. They'll be needin them...

and they get to be expensive after time.
They'll thank you for it later, trust me.

[livinginphotographs]

16. Or better yet, cloth diapers.

Better for the environment. :stands back to let halo envelope my head:

I was raised on cloth diapers, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with them.

[maveric]

21. Its all the rinsing and the shit smell that got me.

We tried that route with my oldest son, even a service (which turned out to be expensive), and went back to the dark side of Huggies.

[livinginphotographs]

25. I don't have kids, so I can't judge.

I just heard from my mom (ex-hippie who voted for Bush, go figure) that she always used cloth diapers.

[Left Is Write]

37. I used cloth with my oldest for nine months.

She had developed an awful allergic reaction to Pampers, so I switched to cloth, and then eventually back to disposables (but not Pampers!).

With my younger two, I couldn't find the kind of diapers I liked. I wanted thick, fluffy flat diapers I could fold myself. I don't like prefolds. The only flat diapers I could find were very thin and gauzy and not at all the quality I was used to. I guess there isn't much market for flat diapers anymore. I wound up using disposables. (And still am with my son - I'm really ready for him to potty train.)

[Pithlet]

30. I'm doing disposables, too.

I know the guilt. I just try to balance it by being extra green in everything else I do. There's no way to be completely green, anyway. You have to expend energy washing and drying cloth diapers, and if you you use a service, they have to be transported by vehicle, which expends even more. My son got a horrible rash with cloth diapers, and my sister did, too.

[radwriter0555]

40. cloth diapers are just too much work. less diaper rash, smelly things,

uncomfy bums and soggy bottoms.

Plastic diapers are just fine.

[Pithlet]

20. A night out before the baby comes.

Maybe a gift certificate to their favorite restaurant. Include a coupon for one night babysitting when the kid is older :)

[HEyHEY]

23. Hey man - they need no coupon

Anytime Uncle Jer can come over and raise hell with his Niece/nephew... shall do so without question

[Pithlet]

27. Aw

Are you going to be a first time uncle?

[HEyHEY]

31. yup!

[Pithlet]

35. You're going to have a blast.

Spoil him/her rotten :)

[DS1]

22. Disposable earplugs - which also cuts down on the amount of diapers

required :evilgrin:

[Pithlet]

24. But then

They'll have to buy more diaper cream. They'll get you one way or another :)

[DS1]

28. Then send along a nice bottle of port

the cork's value will become self-evident

[Pithlet]

29. Won't need the cork

Changing diapers won't seem so bad after a whole bottle of port.

[HEyHEY]

32. Good idea!

[gollygee]

33. gift certificates for food

like restaurants that do take-out. No pregnant woman feels like cooking. No new parents have time to cook.

Also, gift certificates for cleaning - like maid service. It is very hard for new parents to keep a house clean.

:)

[hunter]

38. Some silly DVD set they'd enjoy, but wouldn't ever buy for themselves...

...along with some fancy easy-to-put-together dinners.

Diapers and stuff are great, but sort of unreal until your second kid is on the way.

I remember my wife and I got gift certificates to a fancy restaurant and the movies, but at that point my wife was getting very uncomfortable and had to visit the restroom every half hour, so it wasn't as romantic as you might think...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

42. Babies 'r us gift certificate, if they have one in their area.

I guess you can also use Babies'r us gift cards at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/540744/ref=ms_tab_merch/002-4145587-5128846 .

That's the best place to find anything you'd want for babies.

Onesies are always useful. You could by a whole bunch of those in various different sizes.

One product that is really good for when the baby starts getting mobile is the Super Yard XT with the extension kit. It's the biggest playpen I have ever seen. It gives the kid plenty of space to play. I found this product very helpful. My son started crawling at 6 months, then walking at 8 months, so I used this gate a lot. He had tons of space and he was pretty happy playing in it for an hour to an time at least. We just stopped using it recently because our son can pick it up now (he's two and pretty strong).
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/baby/B00004RA66/qid=1103680136/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-4145587-5128846


Graco Pack and Play's are always good too. This is a another play pen. It's a lot smaller, but good because it folds up very compactly, making it very portable. It's a good playpen to have when traveling (to use as a bed for the baby to sleep in).
http://www.gracobaby.com/products/subcategory.asp?N=43+111&act=A20

Baby swings are nice too. My son loved his baby swing. It really helped to calm him down when he got really upset. It keeps the really young babies occupied (the ones that can't walk or crawl).

Also, I recommend baby einstein videos. Babies and toddlers love them. http://www.babyeinstein.com/Default.asp

The only video of theirs that I wouldn't recommend is the Language Nursey tape or dvd. I think it is only interesting to very young babies.

[Sabriel]

43. I was going to suggest Canadian citizenship, but...

It look like they already have that covered. Anyway, the best gift I got was my friends all getting together and each taking a different night to prepare a whole meal for us, for seven days after I got home from the hospital. It was a huge relief, not having to go shopping or plan for meals, just time to enjoy being new parents. So, if you and some other friends could swing it, your sis would probably appreciate it.

The other thing I'd suggest is to LEAVE THEM ALONE for a couple of days. After almost six years, my strongest memory of the first week is the constantly ringing telephone and the perpetual stream of visitors. If you can, run interference for them and keep well-wishers the hell away for a while. Unplug that phone.

[China_cat]

44. Ear plugs.

Sleeping pills.
A nanny.

[Mabeline]

45. Have they registered anywhere, you'd find out what they need and

it would help get ready for baby as well. Gift certificates are always nice.