Baby Gift Products

Baby girls are a joy to behold. They are so adorable and cute. They’re all sugar and spice and everything nice. What’s more exciting are the many adorable baby girl gifts available. It’s so nice to dress them up in the latest baby girl fashion.

Most items for girls are in pink. However, lately, girls are not just limited to the color pink. There are items in yellow, green, and purple that look as dainty and pretty as pink. Blue is still the favorite color for boys, although the colors orange and red are just close behind.

My best friend will be giving birth soon to a baby girl. I will be her godmother and I’m so excited. I can’t wait to shower this newborn baby girl with gifts that I’ve been dying to get.

It’s so much fun to shop for babies. There are so many cute and adorable items, especially for baby girls. The dresses, onesies, and booties in pink are so nice!  There is so much to choose from, I can spend hours shopping.

Languaages around the world have “child words” with repeating syllables.  Like “papa” in Italian and “tata”–grandfather– in Hungarian.  The part of the brain that governs language development, at least in right-handed people, is on the left side of the brain.  this is consistant with the belief that we are born with abilities allowing us to perceive and learn our mother tongue systematically and efficently.  The area of the brain governing language development does not “learn” the language; rather, it is specialized to process language from the start. 

I wonder if the brain is programmed from the start to like those unique baby gifts all of our friends and family bestow upon us at the birth of our babies. . . . 

It should be obvious to all that the way we treat our mate has a direct relationship to the values our children gain in life.  If we yell and scream or use physical violence with each other, we teach our children that this is the way to get what we want in life.  If we show love and respect within the marriage arrangement, our children will value the family arrangement.  And the home becomes a safe haven in a often dark and scary world.

 This is not to say that material presents are not important.  Such can teach children the value of sharing what we have with others.  From an early age let your children know that the baby gifts they receive are given with love and affection.

Babies have a secret that they pass on to each other in the maternity ward.  “Hey there.  Yea, you, the one-hour-old new kid on the block.  Know this, more whines equals more hugs!”  Studies show that babies who cry more at 2 weeks old are held more at 5 weeks old.  So babies know what they want, and they know how to get it.  Babies love to be held.  But we can’t hold them all of the time.  Don’t feel guilty about that.  Let Baby have one of the plush stuffed animals included in the unique baby gift baskets your friends sent to y0u and Baby with kind thoughts and love.

Today the American Medical Association released a study suggesting concern about bisphenol A— or BPA.  After surveying almost 1500 adults, the AMA found that those individuals exposed to BPA were more likely to have heart disease and diabetes.  Shortly afterward, the FDA defended its position that BPA is safe.  No doubt about it, the debate will continue for years to come. “Right now, our tentative conclusion is that it’s safe, so we’re not recommending any change in habits,” Laura Tarantino, head of the FDA’s office of food additive safety, said. At the same time, however, she acknowledged, “there are a number of things people can do to lower their exposure.”

One of her recommendations was previously recommended on this web site; avoid plastic bottles with the number 7 in the recycle triangle.  About 90 percent of Americans have traces of BPA in their bodies. The FDA claims the levels of exposure are too low to pose a health risk, even in infants and children.

Read all information available about this chemical and make your own decisions about buying products containing it.  And you can be assured that, regardless of your opinions about BPA, these baby gifts are all safe and non-toxic.

One new mom we know says that for the first three months of her new daughter’s life, she was grateful to see the sun each morning because that was the only way she knew morning from night.  She often referred to something she called “Infant Standard Time” –a place somewhere on the Earth (or at least in her house) where it’s normal for everyone to be awake at 3 a.m.  Molly’s nap schedule looked something like this:               Day 1 — 10:30 a.m. to 4:20 p.m.

               Day 2 — whenever . . .

               Day 3 — not ever . . . just fussing and crying instead.

 Mom tells us “I was forever asking ‘is it time to nurse her again?  When did I change her diaper.  I was in a constant state of confausted,’” a word she coined to describe the cross between confused and exhausted.

You have to be on a schedule, well-meaning friends would say–even those who themselves were confausted.  And all the books say a routine is good for children.  And good for Mom and Dad, too.  After all, every new event is a major experience to someone  has never experienced it before.  Seeing green grass, hearing the phone ring, watching a bug on the ground. . . with all those new images flooding her developing brain, a measure of sameness (a normal naptime, a regular bath schedule) would have to be comforting for Molly and Mom.

“But I couldn’t even find the time to take a shower, much less get Molly into some kind of routine.  But thru a lot of trial and error, we found something that worked.  Well, most of the time, anyway.  And all the lovely unique baby girl gifts helped more than friends and family will ever know”

We’ll write more about this in a future post.

By age 3, your child will probably begin to:

• look at books on their own initiative
• have longer attention spans to books read to them
• repeat familiar stories
• sing their “a b c’s”
• make continuous symbols they will call writing
• assume the role of reader, “reading” aloud to his or her favorite stuffed animal, probably selected from the baby gifts received as an infant.

On August 16, 2008, the US FDA ruled that there is no risks associated with the chemical BPA.  Some readers here in a recent post may have understood our feelings as being otherwise.  It was not our intention to take a stand against products containing this chemical–only to acknowledge the contraversey.  We will consider this issue more so in future posts.

You can have confidence that the baby gifts purchased or received from our websites are safe and nontoxic to your precious little ones.

Here are more do’s and don’ts  that  you as a parent, grandparent, siblings or caretaker  can do to keep baby safe as they sleep.Always place baby on their back to sleep on a firm mattress in a crib or bassinet- not on a pillow, sheepskin or other soft surfaces, your little one could roll right into that soft surface and suffocate.

Use only crib sheets or bassinet sheets that fit the mattress snugly, but is not too tight. Crib sheets that fit improperly can come off  have the potential to get wrapped around baby causeing  injury

Never use a bassinet or crib that is old or broken or has been modified in any way.

Don’t over dress baby for bed that cute little sweatsuit that your best friend sent in that personalized baby giftbasket may be too warm for baby to sleep in.  Keep baby’s room at a temperature that an adult in short sleeves is comfortable in.