Maternity Care Essentials and Baby Grooming Kits Make Perfect Shower Gifts

After a baby shower, parents-to-be often find themselves with a menagerie of adorable stuffed animals, a towering pile of burp cloths and hopefully a few of the big-ticket essentials like a monitor and a stroller. What they are often missing are some of the highly practical necessities like baby grooming tools or maternity care items for mom's recovery that they may not even have thought to add to their registry. You can stand out from the baby shower crowd with a kit that includes some of these essential but often forgotten items.

The Details

Pottery Barn Kids offers several baby and mom kits by Frida, a brand that has been trusted by parents around the world for 15 years. These themed kits feature collections of maternity care essentials as well as necessities for babies that make thoughtful push presents for any new parent or parent-to-be. All baby items are BPA and phthalate-free, so you can be confident that they are safe for even the newest of newborns. Read on for more about thse kits for mom and baby.

• Fridababy Baby Basics Kit - This baby grooming kit offers all of the tools you need to keep your little one healthy and clean. This practical collection includes tools for relieving gas, scaly skin and snotty noses as well as a nail clipper specially designed for newborn nails. All of the tools can be stored in the included zipper pouch.
• Fridababy Baby Grooming Kit - This kit includes everything you need for head-to-toe baby grooming. Included in this set are a soft-bristled hairbrush, an s-shaped nail file and curved nail scissors as well as a double-sided finger brush for cleaning tiny teeth and massaging tender gums.
• Frida Mom Post Partum Recovery Essentials Kit - Help jumpstart postpartum recovery with these post-delivery essentials. The maternity care kit includes disposable postpartum underwear, four instant ice maxi pads, 24 cooling pad liners and perineal healing foam, all of which can be stored in a toilet-top caddy. The Frida Mom Hospital Bag Essentials Complete Kit includes all of that plus a delivery and nursing gown and a pair of labor and delivery socks.

Wrap it Up

If you want to pair your baby grooming or maternity kit with something that is perhaps slightly less practical, Pottery Barn Kids has a wide range of charming baby gifts, many of which can be made even more special with monogramming. There are receiving blankets, heirloom baby blankets, silver leaf frames and solid pewter cups as well as darling decor items like elephant-shaped bookends and light-up snow globes. Including a personalized keepsake with the gift of a grooming or maternity kit is the perfect way to strike a balance between the sentimental and the practical.