Best Baby Gifts 2012

These Alphabet Blocks will keep babies amused for hours on end. They are very well designed and very safe for babies to play with. They have smooth edges that stack well. Babies like to chew on things and these blocks are ideal for them to do just this. They are so safe a parent does not have to worry about the baby hurting themselves.

These blocks are fun to look at and to play with. They can be used in all sorts of ways, apart from building towers that can be knocked over.

I remember this toy being one of my favorites as a child.

They are a bit expensive but the quality is so good that any parent would not object to paying a little more knowing that the blocks are perfect for a baby to play with. It definitely a toy that a baby can grow up with and get more use out of the blocks the older they get. These blocks are sturdy enough to be passed on to a baby's brothers or sisters.

Babies will love this light weight yet sturdy toy. It plays real music that everyone will like to listen to instead of those annoying synthetic sounds that a lot of toys of this kind often play. It is the ideal size for the youngster to hold and babies will love to hit the buttons.

This is one of the most popular baby toys currently on the market.

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• Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes

This is a truly great mat for a small baby. Babies will love this big lamb blanket and will use it to play on, take naps on and will seem to enjoy doing just about anything and everything that they can do on it.

It is a very well thought out design, that is safe to use even for babies as young as one month old. Because hygiene is so essential when it comes to baby accessories this blanket is designed to be washed, as often as it needs to be and still stay soft.

The mat comes as a butterfly, lamb, monkey, blue bear, pink bear, cat, frog and giraffe.

It will offer them security at bedtime and they really enjoy sleeping with the mat next to them. Everyone who has purchased or been given one of these delightful and useful mats has found that it is one of the best baby accessories that they have ever owned.

Fisher-Price do know how to design nice safe equipment for young children and the Planet Jumperoo is one such design. Children as young as 5 months old really do get a lot of fun out it.

The frame is well designed and is sturdy enough to cope with the energetic bounces that a youngster is capable of.

The hanging toys are placed a little bit too high for really young babies to interact with but as they get a bit taller they will soon realise what fun it is to play at hitting them about. Fischer Price products are always incredible value for money and this is no exception and children enjoy using this frame wherever and whenever they can.

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• Fisher-Price Precious Planet Jumperoo

This toy will amuse young babies with the sound that it makes and with all the things that it has attached to each of the feathers. Babies have found this toy constant fun thing to play with. Babies just adore this toy from the moment they set eyes on it.

It really is the ideal toy to keep a baby happy. Lamaze have come up trumps with the design. The mixture of large eyes and the crinkly sound that the toy makes seems to grab a baby's attention straight away, so much so that they don't want to leave the toy alone.

It is designed with a hook on top so that it can be hung just about anywhere to keep the baby happy and smiling. It is a great toy for babies who will absorbed by everything about it. It encourages babies to talk back to it, encouraging the baby to interact with it.

My baby particularly liked the feather with the mirror on it and the one that makes a sound.