Gifts & Birthdays: Celebrating Special Moments

The shower is Saturday, you have not bought anything yet, and the registry is already picked over. Or your sister just announced she is pregnant and the usual candle set feels lazy. Those are the problems these guides were built around, and they are sorted by who you are shopping for, not by occasion.

Most of the guides cover baby season shopping. Baby shower gifts handles the registry versus off registry question and what to bring when you barely know the mom. Newborn baby gifts leans toward what parents actually run out of in month one instead of another newborn size outfit nobody gets to wear. Gifts for pregnant women sticks to third trimester comfort and things she will use before the baby arrives.

The rest are for the people who are genuinely hard to buy for year after year: a husband who already buys himself whatever he wants, a new dad in his first sleepless month, a godparent gift meant to be kept, and a birthday pick for a mom who insists she wants nothing.