Diaper Caddies as Baby Gift Baskets for New Parents
When I was first home with my newborn baby girl I often found as
I was trying to feed and care for her, that what I needed always
seemed to be in another room. If I needed a burp cloth, I had
left the clean one in the kitchen. If I was up to my elbows in a
dirty diaper in the nursery and desperately needed the box of
baby wipes, I had left that in the livingroom. I did a lot of
sprinting from room to room retrieving supplies.
Once my daughter was a few months old, an idea came to me for a
diaper caddy. The caddy could be stocked with a days worth of
supplies and easily carried from room to room. The caddy would
hold a wipes container snuggly in place and, of course, it had
to be well-made and stylish. I made a prototype and upon demand
from friends and family began selling them as baby shower gifts.
Let us look at some suggestions for its use.
This caddy is made of a very high quality shaker-style basket,
which, unless jumped on by your child, will last until the
little cherub goes to college. Real wood dividers are crafted
and set inside the fabric-lined basket - this creates cubbies
and a center compartment which will hold any of the major-brand
plastic wipes containers.
New moms have told me that they restock the caddy usually in the
morning, with 4-6 burp cloths and 10-12 diapers. The most
popular finds in the other four compartments are diaper cream,
cornstarch powder, pacifiers, the nasal bulb syringe (as all new
parents know as "the sucker"), lanolin (for the nursing moms),
rattles and I've been told it's a great t.v. remote holder
(although I do not promote this use, I will admit the importance
of knowing the proximity of the remote during
middle-of-the-night feedings).
I know a mom whose baby is 7 months old who stocks the basket in
the a.m. with a days worth of clean outfits. She brings the
basket downstairs to the livingroom for the day. Because the
wooden dividers are removable, the basket can be used to store
memorabilia such as photos and baby's firsts' when its use as a
diaper caddy is no longer needed.
The SaraBear Diaper Caddy makes a unique and stylish new baby
gift for the new parents. They can be purchased online as is or
as beautiful baby gift baskets at www.sarabearbaskets.com.
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