Baby Footprint and Handprint Image

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A Unique Gift for Babies

When you find yourself in a situation where you’re about to have a baby of your own or you have someone close to you that is going to have a baby you will probably need to find some kind of gift that you can give to the newborn child. Searching for gifts online (what is what most people do today) will give you hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of options to choose from and it will literally take up most of your time just searching from site to site.

Instead of doing it this way I suggest that you take a few minutes to make up a plan so you can do a lot more specific searches than just “baby gift”. If you ask me, then any ordinary gift won’t do and therefore you’ll need to look for something special and unique. To help you along with your brainstorming I’ll give you a few ideas.

Unique Baby Clothing

Clothing for babies and small children can’t be considered unique if they are purchased from one of the major suppliers. All of their clothes are produced in huge quantities and everyone can get them from their local store. What you should be searching for is homemade clothing from some of the smaller web shops around. Unfortunately they can be really hard to find because they normally do not spend much time on search engine optimization.

I’ve found a store that doesn’t quite fit into the “small web store” category but never the less they provide a great deal of unique clothing that might fit your needs for a unique baby gift. The store calls itself PolkaDotPatch because most of the items they carry have polka dots on them. *smile*

You can find their website by clicking here

Unique Baby Shower Gifts

I believe that one of your best options of finding a unique gift for babies are by visiting one of the many online stores dealing with gifts used at baby showers. A search shows that there are more than 750,000 online stores dealing with gifts for baby showers. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that you’ll have plenty of options to choose from but the bad thing will also be that you get in over your head. Let me help you pick out a few of the stores with the widest selection in unique gifts:

- Beau-Coup: Click here
- Lil Baby Cakes: Click here
- Pretty Baby Gifts: Click here
- GotoBaby: Click here

Unique Baby Jewelry Gifts

Finally you can go for baby jewelry as it can easily be personalized and thereby made unique using engravings. Again there are lots and lots of stores dealing with baby jewelry. There are two stores that I recommend that you visit depending on what you’re looking for. The first one specialized in very unique gifts and they have had their products featured in many major magazines over time. Their product range starts around $50 and goes up from there. The store is called BabyEmiJewelry and can be found here

The second store I would recommend for a unique gift for babies is the much larger online store called JewelBasket. A lot of their jewelry is made of gold and you’ll therefore find that the price can be pretty high. Especially if you go for some of the larger items! They do however give you a fair discount so you’ll still be likely to find a good deal.

It can be hard to find a unique gift. Babies are precious little humans and you want to give them something they can have forever. I hope that the suggestions above have given a few ideas to work with in your search for a unique baby gift.

Baby Ghetto Names

What do you consider ghetto? When surfing one of the many baby names websites that are constantly showing up around the internet, I found an article or it was more like a blog post about what was considered ghetto names.

I didn’t really understand what the point of the post was but there where several people that participated and gave their version of what they considered “Ghetto”. Before going into why I believe that the poster asked the question here is the list that they came up with. Please be aware that I am not commenting on whether or not these names are good or bad names or whether or not they can be considered “ghetto”. I am only referencing the list they came up with. So here goes:

List of Ghetto Names

  • Akwante
  • Avante
  • Bicorian
  • Chauncey
  • Darrell
  • Davonte
  • Devin
  • Jakobi
  • Jakori
  • Jamal
  • Jaquan
  • Johntae
  • Jybonte
  • Keyshawn
  • Raymin
  • Tevin
  • Trey
  • Tyreese
  • Tyrese
  • Tyrone

The Point

I can only guess and I might not be right but I think that the person asking the question might have had some concerns about naming his or her child something that might be considered a ghetto name and thereby assigning the common viewpoint of that name to the child unfairly.

I would imagine that some people might judge other people solely by their name and that might give that child a disadvantage that wasn’t necessary and could have been avoided with a “not ghetto name”. Again I can only guess but that is what I think.

Please feel free to give me your suggestions as to what you consider ghetto names and whether you would take it into consideration before naming your child. If you would please explain why.

Best Baby Footprint - The Solution

Baby Footprint - The SolutionIt all starts when you become a parent. Maybe it is your first child or maybe it is you second or third. Whatever the case may be it is always a special moment and it is something that you would like to remember forever. Today we have lots and lots of different digital equipment like cameras and camcorders and that is all great. But it can never become as personal as creating a baby footprint.

You don’t have to wait for your baby to become 1, 2 or 3 years old in order to create a footprint. As soon as you child is old enough he or she will naturally want to be part of the creation process and that can truly be a blast for both child and parent. Lots of fun and laughter!

But why wait? Creating a baby footprint is not a difficult task and if you buy the footprint kits that are available at most major supermarkets you can easily do it yourself.

Most people will only create one baby footprint and that is it. Personally I have a footprint from when I was two years old but not once before or after have anyone taken the time or effort to create a new one to see how fast I grew. Instead of following the mainstream, why not make it a reoccurring event that you every six months or every year do another print. It will be like a timeline in your child’s development and even though there might come a time where your child might find it a bit stupid you can rest assured that they will love it once they grow older and have kids of their own.

A baby footprint can be made out of a number of different ingredients but if you don’t want to spend too much time and effort on it, then the premade baby footprint kit solutions are really great and very affordable. Remember to read the “how to use the kit” note before you start out. If you’re not doing it right you can create an awful mess and there is no need for that. Creating a baby footprint should be a fun and simple task.