Originally Posted by
Minou
Your diaper cakes are really pretty. Looks like you use good quality items, too... some people make them on the cheap, and they look it. I really like the embroidered blanket.
While I know a lot of people love getting diaper cakes, I've always thought that I'd never want to receive a diaper cake as the parent of a newborn. The thought of unrolling and untying and unelasticing all those diapers while frighteningly sleep deprived makes me shudder! With a newborn, I'm lucky if I have the energy to move the diapers out of a bag and into a basket. I remember people coming over to bring little baby gifts when our first son was born, and while I put on a good front, I really had a hard time getting excited about 6-month sleepers. I learned then that the best gift to new parents whose child has just come home from the hospital is food -- and that someone coming by in the first few days should just drop things off rather than expecting to come in for a two-hour "visit".
Same thing with people using tea towels to wrap bridal shower gifts -- I was pricked several times by straight pins while opening gifts, and boy, some of those women got the tea towel wrapping so tight that it was hard to get any play in the fabric to pull the pins out. Some of the pins were actually bent!
