A very special gift idea for your baby :)

[Mumma&Bubba(s)]

Hi Everyone,

Congratulations on your tiny embies!
to you all

I read in an issue of "Pregnancy&Birth" a beautiful story of a gift from a mother to her newborn. This gift was very special in that it was personalised in a way that only the mother can. I love this idea and am going to do this over the next 8 months...

Buy a beautiful, cuddly soft toy and sleep with it every night until the birth of your baby.
Your scent will be absorbed into the soft toy and when your baby has it close by - even when you're not there - they'll be bonding with you

I absolutely love this idea and I hope you do too
Belly rubs and good luck with your pregnancies Yummy Mummies!

[Indadhanu]

My partner did this with a blankie so that in hospital Jazz wouldnt forget her. It was gorgeous watching shel snuggle up with a bunny rug each night

[Mumma&Bubba(s)]

That's gorgeous Leasha
It's lovely to hear stories like that!

[Evie76]

I loooove that idea.

That wins hands down on on presents!!

[briggsy's girl]

wonder if i can get DH to sleep with something extra when he's home (not a chance while he's at work - stinky!). i think it's important for bubba to bond with both parents...

Leash, i love the bunny rug idea - wonder if i could just hide one under the sheet so that it picks up DH's scent without him getting wrapped up and frustrated with it...

[Mumma&Bubba(s)]

Briggsy's girl - I thought about saying putting the toy/ blanket in with both mumma and daddy but it didn't sound politically correct to me - seeing as there are single mums out there... ridiculous huh??

It's definitely a great idea to have both parents scent on them

[me83]

I thnk that is a lovely idea. My sister did that for her daughter and she slept a lot better once she had the toy. My sister didn't sleep with it for 9 months tho, just stuffed it down her top. It was amzing, my neice wouldn't sleep without it.

That has given me an idea for another friend who is pregnant......

[Indadhanu]

BG... Well I told her to just lay on it but she'd wrap herself up in it LOL

[mrsmac]

I have read that babies settle well wit a shirt of mum's or something with her scent on it so this makes sense. Like you do with puppies! When we got our last dog the breeder gave us a toy which she had with her mum so she would have the familiar scent to sleep with.

[NaeNae]

Its a lovely idea - they actually suggest people do this with cloth nappies for the bitty babies in NICU and SCN, they suggest mum wears a cloth nappy under her shirt for a day or so then to pop it in with bub for comfort.

Its a great way for bub to feel some sort of security when it is alone

On the flip side - I read somewhere for parents to do this with a shirt or blankey and get babies smell along with the parents smell for pet dogs and cats so they get an association with this new little bundle before it comes home

[ladybird11]

The hospital where I had DD had 'wookies'...so if the mum and bubba was separated (ie - prem or sick) then bubba had one wookie and mum had the other, then when you see each other next you swap...
I don't know whether the whole scent thing worked as we were swapping them daily - but for me (as silly as this will sound) i felt the wookie 'was' my baby, until I managed to get her home from hospital 6 wks after her birth...It made me feel closer to her, even when I wasn't there.

[Mumma&Bubba(s)]

Congrats on your engagement Leesa!
(Also congrats on your next arrival!)
That sounds like a beautiful idea that the hospital had.
Were they little soft toy star wars wookies??
That would be amazingly cute!

[Melbournemumma]

Hey girls,

This is such a beautiful idea but I'm wondering how I'd sell it to my macho army man husband who's in the Solomon's. I can just imagine the ribbing he'd get if they saw him snuggling up to a blankie every night . I'm gonna send him one just cause I can Hahahahahahahahaha. i love it!

Maybe I'll sleep with the toy and he can have the blankie, then when Peanut is born it can have both our scents on it

[tattoo_mama]

ug i cant do that to my poor bubba. dp smells of sweat and cigarettes when he comes to bed! LOL

[Papillon]

That is just precious!

xo

[Neenee Jellybeanie]

I should've given my colicky non-sleeper one of the several pillows off the bed!

[paradise lost]

I love the idea of this, but then i thought back to when DD was tiny and literally for the first five weeks i was NEVER not there! LOL. Then i started having an hour off occasionally to exercise... Such a sweet idea for premmie babies, and ill babies and parents that can't be there all the time though

Bx