Welcome home! Your sister, best friend, or neighbor has just returned from the hospital with a new baby in tow and you want to surprise her with some basics she’ll want/need for her new life as a mommy.
Be sure to fill your welcome kit with essentials like diapers, wipes, baby lotion, pacifiers, hand sanitizer, and burp rags. Then add some extras that will pamper and celebrate Mom, too. She just worked hard to make a baby.
Rather than just presenting all the goodies in a boring box or gift bag, consider a container that has more than one purpose. You can fill a cute laundry bag (she’ll find a use for that), a plastic storage bin on wheels, a pretty basket she can store and tote the things she needs when nursing, or even a color-coordinated garbage pail that will match the baby’s room.
