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Here are some new baby gift ideas. All of these new baby gifts are inexpensive and top rated... they are all rated excellent by consumers.

Freddie the Firefly - Activity Toy

Price: $9.95

Average Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars

Product Description: "This friendly bug features a soft velor body and busy wings with peekaboo mirror, textures, squeaker and crinkles. Also includes clinking rings, tethered ladybug teether and knotted antennae for chewing. Machine washable."

Manufacturer Recommended Age: 3 months - 2 years

Here is a review for this toy... "My niece is about 6 months old and she loves this toy. We clip it to her jumper (large clip included) so we don't have to pick it up if she drops it. It keeps her enthralled. She's in the chewing stage so she chews it and it makes crinkley noises so it's a great attraction for her. The little squeaky ball on it is intriguing to her too but she's really not strong enough to squeeze it herself--someone else needs to squeeze it and it does get her attention. It's a wonderful interactive toy for her age group. "

2. Fisher Price Counting Corn Popper

Price: $9.99

Average Customer Review: 4 3/4 out of 5 stars

Product Description: "This classic Corn Popper push toy has a new twist: it helps little ones with counting skills. Push it along for counting, sounds and lights as the colorful balls "pop" inside the plastic dome. Requires 3 "AA" alkaline batteries (included)."

Manufacturer Recommended Age: 1 - 3 years

Review for this toy... "My 19 month old daughter loves this toy. The counting and music it plays is a nice sound level and doesn't drive us crazy when she plays with it. It makes a great distraction toy when she is trying to get in to stuff. "

3. Baby Whoozit - Activity Toy

Price: $9.95

Average Customer Review: 4 1/2 out of 5 stars

Product Description: "Like the beloved original Whoozit, this zany creature is loaded with fun textures, noises, and visuals that babies love to explore. Its soft, squishy velour face has a surprise mirror hidden under a flip-up nose. Each leg ends in a brightly colored shape/teether that rattles, squeaks, or crinkles. And this Whoozit easily attaches to most cribs, strollers, car seats, and carriers. (The Baby Tizoo is a smaller version of the Whoozit Tizoo). Only 5 1/2" in diameter, it's easy to tuck into a purse or diaper bag."

Manufacturer Recommended Age: birth - 18 months

A Product Review: "I love this toy, but more importantly, my baby loves this toy. We got it for her when she was 3 months old, and she has loved it ever since. I proceeded to buy almost every toy in this line because she loves it so much! My daughter, now 10 months, loves to play and chew on the hanging things, and she laughs at the face. It is also very portable, and is small enough to bring anywhere. It can be attached by the loop and velcro to almost anything. An absolute must for any baby!"

Baby showers are a time of excitement and joy, but they are also a time to prepare the mom and dad-to-be with well needed gifts for parenthood. Many baby shower gifts range from a cute newborn outfit to other newborn apparel. Although this type of gift is much appreciated, new parents are going to be getting lavished with them, so you might want to think outside the box. Here are the five top baby shower gifts for 2008.

1. Umbilical Cord Blood: Storing the umbilical cord blood at a private blood bank could potentially save the life of the child. Although the technology is new and has not yet been proven, its quite possible that those with their umbilical cord blood will much better off due to advances in medicine accompanied by matching blood. There are many different private blood banks to choose from, ViaCord is one, and prices start at about $1500. This might be a bit out of your baby shower gift price range, but perhaps you could pool some money together with friends to get this once in a lifetime baby shower gift.
2. Pacifiers: Its pretty simple and often overlooked. Pacifiers disappear like yesterdays news and can be a godsend for a parent with a screaming child. A large box of pacifiers will make a great gift for the baby shower.
3. Photo Shoot with Photographer: If there is one thing new parents are into, its taking lots of photo's with their newborn. Have a professional photographer come and take some fantastic pictures. Professional photos can last a lifetime and the new parents will be extremely thankful.
4. Costco Membership: Costco can be a valuable resource to new parents pinching penny's. Being able to buy things (like diapers) in bulk will really help out any new parents. Costco allows you to buy a membership for someone else as a gift.
5. Flip Video & External Hard Drive: Flip video is a new type of video camera that takes high quality video, is super easy to use, and is priced less than $200. The external hard drive can be of even greater value though. New parents will be taking lots of videos and pictures. An external hard drive can be set aside for storage off all that data so it does not cloud up the computer. Think of the external hard drive as the new age photo album. When it fills up, you can place it in the closet and discover it again year after year. Lots of times our computers will get old and crash, losing a lot of data, of which we don't want to be our memories.

Almost everyone I know of hate buying gifts and then they make a mad rush at the last to the nearest shopping mall or the retailer to buy a gift. Of course the gift that they buy then has definitely a satisfaction value to it but no value to the recipient because you did not put any thought to it.

With the additional stress of buying something unique people have started moving towards gifts cards and visa gift cards, which are helpful to the parents of the new born baby. These gift cards can sure make your life easier as you do not have to then run around for the searching for a unique gift for the newborn however I am sure that the baby when it grows up will have no fond memories of the gift he received. Just imagine he is holding that gift card in his hand after twenty years as a memento of the childhood gift that he received. How awful that will be!

Clothes are one thing that as a gift you can never go wrong. Newborn babies require extensive set of clothes for the first few months as they keep growing as well as dirtying the clothes. This constant need to have clothes makes sure that a gift as mundane as clothes is always welcome by the parents of the newborn.

The clothes can be transformed into extra ordinary gifts by some little creativity. Personalized baby gifts look very good and have been known to show to the recipient that you have taken extra efforts in selecting the gift. The next bet is a gift basket of routine things like diaper basket or a baby food basket for even a gift basket of little onesies can be of great value to the parents.

So, in conclusion, search and think before you venture to the shopping area for selecting a newborn gift.

As I write today those people who are searching for gifts for newborn babies have myriad options for buying gifts such that it can actually be a problem of plenty. The shops where you can go for getting those gifts range from the discount stores to the regular retailers to the online shops to the latest in thing baby boutiques.

If you are discount shopper shopping for gifts on a budget your best bet,offline as well as online is, Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target. Very true as with every other item we need. Some other shops do offer some special clothes but of course they are not exclusive like the Old Navy or the Lands End.

The higher end of the market is very wide in range and is not dominated by one particular store. In fact if you search online today you will find a wide variety of stores and boutiques which sell designer clothes and some have their own designer shops offline too. A site worth a look to find a good newborn gift is E-luxury. Another one that is good is Baby Phat. The famous clothing lines are Mak the Yak and Baby Om and the one famous baby clothes designer is Anna Geddes.

These designer boutiques can also take your order and custom build a gift if you so desire. Some have such a wide range that it would make perfect sense to go online search and the order something from their catalogue. My search yielded a wide variety of things you can do online, some specializes in gift packages for organic clothing, some have special designs like the traditional Indian floral designs, some boutiques have special personalized messages monogrammed in special crystals, other shops had funky range of logos to be emblazoned on the gifts that you select.

Your search for gifts is better online than offline and it also gives you chance to explore a number of sites at once without leaving the comfort of your home. Especially when time is at a premium and you have a gift to choose for someone.