The Gift Edit
For when you are buying for someone else's baby.
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Small, inexpensive, and impossible to already own two of. The safest gift on this list.
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Eight bibs is an unromantic gift and the one most likely to be mentioned to you six months later.
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Nobody puts this on a registry and everybody needs it. Give it to a second-time parent and watch their face.
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A gift with a date on it — around six months — which makes it a good choice when the baby has already arrived and the newborn things are covered.
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Two pieces that already match, which is the whole trick of giving clothing: it looks considered without you having guessed twice.
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No sizing risk, no duplication risk, and it outlasts everything else you could spend forty-five dollars on here.
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The gift people remember receiving. Size up rather than down — a shoe that is slightly too big is a shoe you get to use later.
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A gift for the parent rather than the baby, which after the third shower is the more thoughtful move.
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The biggest thing on this list, and the one that takes over a room the moment it lands. It folds away, it washes, and no one has to guess a size.
