Consider Moses Baskets for Unique Baby Shower Gifts

By Edie Mindell

A Christmas gift basket of a different sort for the newborn baby would be a moses basket. The moses baskets are the perfect gift for using when visiting family and friends as the baby will then have some where to sleep other than the car seat or other carrier.

What to get for the parents who seem to have everything and want for nothing is often a perplexing question. When babies are new it seems that gifts are showered upon them from all sides. New parents like to shop for and pamper their new babies. Friends and family also ask parents what their wants and needs are to insure that the baby is well supplied. Grandparents are perhaps the biggest spenders sparing no expense to spoil that baby even though the baby has not been born.

The Christmas Question

This initial cascade of baby gifts is fun, but the holiday season can create a problem: What can I possibly get for this baby that she doesn't already have in duplicate? Holiday shopping should be fun, especially when the gift is for a baby or toddler. To this end when searching for that perfect Christmas gift for baby think of obscure, but fun items that will enhance baby's well being but might be considered non-essential.

Non-essential items are more interesting to select and often fill a need mom or dad didn't even know they had. This is why these particular items often escape selection in the deluge of gift giving that precedes and follows the baby's birth. A perfect example of a great Christmas gift idea for a baby is the Moses Basket.

A basket?

Moses baskets are made to create a portable bed for baby. These baskets can be quite simple woven and lined with cute linens or very ornate with handles, frilly details complete with a shade canopy. A Moses basket allows baby a safe place sheltered from the drafts of winter to sleep or rest when mom or dad's arms are otherwise occupied.

Different from a swing, bouncy seat or play yard, Moses Baskets transport easily from room to room, take up very little space and create a warm snuggly bed.

What's the point?

This gift is the very definition of filling a need that mom didn't even know she had. Most new parents get the bouncy seat, which is portable and the baby swing, which is not so portable thinking that is plenty. What happens in reality is this: their tiny new born slips and slides so much in the bouncy chair that it can't be used until they get bigger with more muscle control. The swing works well but limits mom to being in the living room because it is difficult to move.

A Moses Basket solves these problems. The basket is easily moved from space to space. It is not large and is warmer and more supportive of new babies than a bouncy chair. The smaller size allows mom and dad to take baby with them to any room while they work or relax.

Form and function

Even the simplest Moses baskets are beautiful. This makes them a welcome addition to any dcor. Baby accessories like swings sometimes create an eyesore that parents can't wait to remove once they are out grown. A Moses basket does not carry this same stigma. - 30224

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