what gets used, what gets read, and what gets kept
Sorted the way a first year actually goes, rather than by what shelf it came off.
Most of what arrives for a new baby is bought against a list, and the list is organized by category. Sleep. Feeding. Bath. It's a useful way to stock a nursery and a useless way to choose a gift.
You aren't filling a gap in her supplies. You're sending one thing, and it has to be the right one. So here it is by moment instead.
the first weeks
Almost nothing from this stretch gets kept, because almost all of it is used until it falls apart. A gown worn until she grows out of it, a swaddle washed every other day, burp cloths over one shoulder and then the other. Send the ones she will actually reach for at four in the morning.
See everything for baby
the shelf
The books arrive before the baby can hold them, which is the point. They sit on the shelf through the year of being chewed and the years of being read, and one of them ends up on a bed in a different house entirely.
See everything for baby
something to keep
The things that stop being baby things somewhere along the way. A linen box for the bracelet and the lock of hair, a book filled in slowly by hand, a car that moves from the floor to a shelf and stays there.
See everything for baby
or send it composed
Several of these pieces already sit inside an Edit, wrapped in tissue with your message written out by hand.
The Edits