Best Gifts for Expecting Moms
So you have that special woman in your life who’s going to be a mommy!
Be her your wife, sister or friend – you want to get her something special, you want to find the best gifts for expecting moms!
I get it.
Trust me I’ve been pregnant 8 times!
Yep. 8 kids.
And it’s oh so nice when someone remembers you and wants to pamper you. It feels so good!
Here are some great gifts to show that special expecting woman in your life that you want to make her feel special!
1. The Bump Box
Every month she gets a new box, one that’s befitting the month of pregnancy that she’s in. All kinds of products to pamper her and make her feel special and loved.
You can get her one box or 3 or the whole nine months. Hey, there’s even a postpartum box and one for dad too! And part of the fun is the anticipation and excitement of a new box with surprise gifts every month! The bump box is truly one of the best gifts for expecting moms.
2. Probiotic Skin Care
Just about every mama to be is self-conscious about her looks. Is she gaining too much? Do her maternity clothes look good on her? And how’s her skin holding up?
Trust me, I know the skin holding up part. Your body does all kinds of strange things when you’re pregnant and skin going crazy can be one of them.
That’s one of the many reasons why it’s super important for her to have her daily probiotics (for other reasons see How to Prevent my Baby from Developing Allergies During Pregnancy).
Probiotics are natural, good-for-you bacteria that work to improve your health, inside and out. Taking a good quality probiotic will help balance her insides and outsides – aka – her skin.
Now here comes the awesome part. It used to be that the only way to take probiotics was orally – which I still recommend. But – Tula has come along and created skin care products with probiotics.
Tula uses probiotics as the foundation of all their products. These same bacteria that are best known to help balance and calm your stomach are also clinically proven to help promote the look of skin’s natural balance, locking in moisture to leave your complexion more hydrated and reducing the appearance of inflammation – aka – acne.
This is incredible news for anyone with acne. I mean this should be in every teen’s bathroom, right? But especially the expectant mom cuz probiotics aren’t only good for her – they’re essential for her baby!
Want to find one of the best gifts for expectant moms? Check out Tula. I personally love their discovery kit.
3. Real Food Meal Planning
You want to make her life easier, right? You know she’s exhausted and her body is literally running a marathon – but you still want her to be eating healthy, nutritious whole meals for that baby.
Solution?
Make meal planning & shopping super easy!
With Realplans you chose your diet type (anything including Paleo, Gaps, Gluten Free, Keto), exclude any food allergies, decide how many meals you need for the week and voila! They create a completely custom made for you menu.
Including the menu, the recipes and the shopping list to go along with it.
If you want to go even further than that? Sign her up with Instacart and let her watch all those groceries arrive at her door! No shopping necessary. Realplans will integrate with Instacart to provide the ultimate cut-your-meal-prep-time-in-a-quarter-the-time plan!
Guaranteed to bring a smile to this expecting mommy’s face!
Truly another one of the best gifts for expecting moms.
4. Earth Mama Organics
So you want to pamper her a little, am I right? But you also want to give her practical and healthy items that she’ll need and use (and love!)
Solution: Earth Mama Organics!
Earth Mama Organics makes clean, safe and effective herbal solutions for the entire journey of motherhood, including pregnancy, breastfeeding and baby care.Earth Mama Organics has got herbal tea, soaps, balms, lotions, soothing sprays, deodorants, baby lotions, diaper balm and the very first Non-GMO Project Verified nipple cream.
Translation: you name it… they’ve got it. All pregnancy related, new baby related products and it’s all certified organic!
I know what you’re going to say: Earth Mama Organics is like the perfect address for finding the best gifts for expecting moms!!!!
I would definitely check out their ‘A little something for mama-to-be’ package. I would personally want that if I were expecting.
5. Baby Photo Album
A baby photo album is just one of those delicious parts of having a baby. Having a newborn is such a whirlwind – it’s true – but those precious moments are indescribable.
Every new mom just wants to lock those precious weeks away in her memory forever…..
And that’s why she needs a baby photo album. PikPerfect has super professional albums for regular day prices – the perfect place to find one of the best gifts for expectant moms.
If you’re looking for a less professional look Mixbook, Blurb, Pinhole and Artifact all have beautiful options for creating the perfect baby photo album.
6. Birth Empowerment
There’s no gift like the gift of an empowered birth. The day a woman gives birth is eternally sketched in her mind in all it’s glory and there’s nothing more special than being able to face that day with power.
Here are some ways you can help create the birth of her dreams:
Powerful childbirth classes.
The key is to having the best classes that will give her knowledge, skill and make her feel powerful. This will be one of the more costly items on this list, but also one with the most long lasting effects – gifting her online birthing classes will help her build the birth experience that will empower her so she’s ready when the big day arrives. Mama Natural birthing classes are my readers’ favorite - as well as these other birthing classes that also very popular.
Spinning Babies.
One of the essentials for birth is having your baby in a good position. Good fetal positioning means shorter labor and less pain. This isn’t something that always happens on its own – but the good news is there are short exercises she can do on a daily basis which can promote and make room for the baby to get into the optimal position.
Spinning Babies has a short and inexpensive video that shows the daily essentials for getting the baby into the optimal position for birth, so when it comes time birth will go that much faster and more smoothly.
The Positive Birth Book.
This book was written by a mom who personally saw the difference that outlook can have on your birth. So many of us picture birth as a scary thing from when we’re young, as this is what the media feeds us. But once we learn to have positive feelings towards birth it opens an entirely different experience for us during out labor.
Labor Bag essentials.
You want to help prepare a hospital labor bag for her - but you know she needs to pack more than her favorite PJs! Here are the essentials for labor - the bag that a doula would pack. Pick the things that you think she'll enjoy most during her labor and pack them up for her!
You are a phenomenal friend!
Looking out for that special expectant mom in your life. My question to you is: Are you that special person that she wants to come with her to her birth?
Has she asked you? Are you going to offer? I am fully supportive of idea of having a doula at a birth - someone knowledgeable and capable. But more often than not she wants someone that she knows and loves.
Problem is - you feel unequipped, unknowledgeable and like you'll fail her when the time comes.
What if you say the wrong things or don't know what to do?
Enter: SupportingHer.
SupportingHer is an online class that teaches tips, techniques and actionable skills to help a woman's partner (husband/friend/sister) support her during labor and birth.
You’ll learn how to provide physical and verbal support and deal with any curve balls. You’ll also learn what to say and what never to say to a woman in labor.
SupportingHer is an easy way to learn all you need to know, at your own pace, in less than two hours from your computer or phone. You can pass on the boring books and all-day classes and be confidently ready for the big day to support her in any way that you can. Sound good?
Like our list of best gifts for expecting moms?
What gifts have you gotten for expecting moms that they've loved?