re: Christmas present ideas

I just had a baby. Please do not give her a blanket. I must have 20 blankets and I can't fathom using them all, because I already do laundry all the time and have a few we rotate out.

One of my best friends waited until my daughter was born and gave us a baseball bat custom made to her length at birth, engraved with her name/bday/time of birth/stats. My husband is a big baseball fan and we have a bat like this for our wedding date. Hands down the best thing I got, albeit not useful to her at this point.

Useful things she will appreciate: any sort of food (if you live in an area with a concierge service see if you can buy her a few hours to do what she needs...my family has run around picking up prescriptions and groceries and stuff but that would be excellent), diapers/wipes or a Target gift card to buy those things, etc. Unless you know her personality well enough to get a keepsake, go for practical.