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With winter just around the corner, it is time to start planning, organizing and purchasing Christmas presents for your friends, family members and loved ones. Some members of your family will be used to receiving the same thing every year; either because, well, that’s all you can think of to buy them or perhaps that’s what they ask for!

When looking for gifts for younger members of your family, it can sometimes be more than a little tricky to find a gift that is more unique and individualized than the standard packs and gift sets that you find, in bulk, in the aisles of the local superstore and chain stores in the mall. 

If a member of the family, or maybe one of your close friends, has just had a new baby, then most Christmas gifts they receive will be geared towards supplies for the baby, rather than the parents themselves. With that being said, continue reading for the top eleven ideas and inspiration for thoughtful, sentimental and altogether fabulous Christmas gifts for new parents.

Couples Spa Day

Obviously, when a couple first has a baby, whether it is their first child or not, a good night’s sleep and even just five minutes to themselves is something entirely unobtainable. A thoughtful gift for the new parents is a spa day voucher that can be redeemed for at least a year after the purchase date, leaving them plenty of time to find appropriate childcare. 

There is a plethora of benefits to sharing a spa day experience with a spouse, including enjoying quality and peaceful time together, increased feelings of intimacy and affection, lowering anxiety and stress levels and re-connection with each other after going through the pregnancy and birth. 

Matching Christmas Pajamas 

One of the more entertaining and altogether trendy Christmas gifts that the new couple will truly appreciate is a pair of fabulously ostentatious matching Christmas pajamas for them to lounge around in over the Christmas period.

The beauty of gifting your friends or family members matching Christmas pajamas is that you can also buy a miniature set for the new baby too, providing the family with the perfect ‘instagramable’ photographs and greeting cards this holiday season. 

Superstore Gift Cards

One of the best possible Christmas gifts you could possibly give the new mommy and daddy in your life are some Target gift cards or other gift vouchers from popular superstores that sell everything all in one place.

As busy new parents, simple errands and chores can become significantly more complicated to organize, not to mention the extra costs that inevitably come with the birth of a brand-new bundle of joy. Giving gift vouchers as a gift will take the financial stress out of the increased outgoings and expense of shopping and will also mean they can treat themselves with the voucher rather than spending it all on groceries alone. 

Wireless Earbuds

There is a number of amazing advantages to a new parent using wireless earbuds, most notably the opportunity to listen to their favorite podcasts and music artists without waking their sleeping baby or getting any wires tangled. 

Wireless earbuds come in a wide variety of different styles, sizes and brands so you can spend as much or as little as you can afford on picking the perfect pairs. An even cuter idea would be to purchase the same brand and style of earbuds for each partner, but in different colors so they can tell each other’s apart.  

Wine Subscription Service

If the new parents consider themselves to be wine connoisseurs, one of the most thoughtful Christmas gifts that you can absolutely guarantee they will both appreciate and make the most of is a year’s subscription to a wine delivery service.

Naturally, as new parents, finding the time and the reliable babysitter to go out for a romantic evening meal just the two of them is nigh on impossible. Instead, then, why not bring the taste sensation to their own home, with different obscure and decadent wines delivered directly to their door every single month. 

A Coffee Machine

It virtually does not even need to be said that, as new parents, a good night’s sleep are certainly few and far between. 

Logic dictates, then, that one of the most appreciated Christmas gifts that is possible to give a set of new parents is a brand new, all singing and dancing, coffee machine. Coffee drinkers no longer have to travel to coffee houses to experience the various strengths, types of coffee beans and plethora of different exotic coffee syrups as now, with a luxury coffee machine, they can experience these flavors just by stepping into their very own kitchen. 

There are a multitude of advantages in a home coffee machine, including the increased inject of energy at any time of the day, significant savings on a takeaway coffee habit and even the various scientifically proven health benefits associated with a moderate amount of coffee consumption. 

Board Game Compendium

Gone are the days when board games were only annually brought out of the back of the closet, covered in dust with more than a few pieces missing from the box. These days, board games are experiencing somewhat of a resurgence in terms of popularity and people of all ages are now holding dedicated board game nights with their family and friends for a fun night of bonding and playing. 

As your friends are likely to be spending most, if not all, nights at home, once the baby is asleep, instead of automatically switching on the television and falling asleep on the sofa, with a board games compendium gift, they can play into the small hours together. 

Board games increase brain function, are great for reducing feelings of stress, anxiety and low mood and can even be credited for strengthening relationships. 

Exercise Bike

Only if the new mommy and daddy in your life are keen gym bunnies, a sturdy yet entirely portable and foldable exercise bike would be a great addition to their home this Christmas.

Perhaps one, or both, of them used to spend every morning before work in the gym or swimming pool, but now are confined to the house in the mornings looking after their new little bundle of joy. These days, there is a wide variety of exercise equipment available that is both relatively affordable and entirely portable. 

Benefits of having an exercise bike at home are numerous and a stationary bike workout can lower blood pressure, aid better sleep patterns, increase mood levels, lower stress levels and give an increased injection of energy (the latter much needed as parents of a new baby). 

Slow Cooker & Recipe Book

Perhaps slightly less exciting than some of the other suggestions on the list, giving new parents a slow cooker and related recipe book for Christmas will be incredibly appreciated, more than you would expect. There are numerous advantages to owning a slow cooker and all the benefits will enrich the lives of new parents, especially in the baby’s first few months. 

Slow cookers will easily enable your busy and tired friends to start cooking a meal, with all ingredients thrown into the unit and then to carry on with their chores and looking after their new baby without having to tend to the meal or worry about leaving the food without supervision. 

As well as the benefit of entirely ‘hands-off’ cooking, slow cookers also are deliberately designed to bring out the individual flavors in the ingredients, are incredibly easy to learn to use, they tenderize meat and promote heathy eating. 

Luxury Under Eye and Sleep Masks

Due to lack of sleep and heightened levels of stress, anxiety and worry, it is likely that the new mommy and daddy in your life are perhaps not looking and more importantly not feeling, their best. As a result, the thoughtful gift of a pair of luxury, reusable under-eye gel masks and gel sleep masks will make a real difference to how they feel and look, especially waking up so early in the morning with the new baby. 

Choose organic under-eye masks, containing collagen, vitamin C and E and with cooling gel inserts that can even be placed in the refrigerator for extra coolness. 

Engraved Decanter Set

For an altogether more luxurious and truly decadent Christmas gift for the new parents in your life, why not consider a personalized, engraved decanter set with matching whiskey glasses.

The beauty of a decanter is, although traditionally designed for displaying and containing luxury whiskeys, it can be used for any spirit of choice. Once your friends have put their new baby to bed, they can sit back and relax with a decadent drink in their engraved glasses. You could choose a humorous and entertaining phrase to have professionally engraved onto both the decanter and glasses, or just their names, or even ‘mommy’ and ‘daddy’ respectively.