{"id":1265,"date":"2019-08-27T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2019-08-27T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:40:19","slug":"dallas-moms-5-gifts-a-new-mom-in-dallas-really-wants-baby-shower-gift-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/dallas-moms-5-gifts-a-new-mom-in-dallas-really-wants-baby-shower-gift-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Moms | 5 Gifts a New Mom in Dallas Really Wants \u2013 Baby Shower Gift Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/dallas.momcollective.com\/author\/meganharney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megan Harney<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 15px\">September 13, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once you hit the \u2018mom of young kids\u2019 stage of life, it seems like you are constantly being invited to baby showers. I remember the same thing happening when everyone I knew got married at the same time and we spent three years saving every spare vacation day for weddings, bachelorette parties, and wedding showers.<\/p>\n<p>Before I became a mom, I loved picking out a little outfit for the new baby. But now that I am a mom myself, it just doesn\u2019t seem right to show up at a baby shower with&nbsp;cute booties I&nbsp;know will never stay on the&nbsp;baby\u2019s feet or a wipe warmer no one will&nbsp;care about after the first two weeks. These cute, but completely impractical gifts go against everything I care about as a mom.<\/p>\n<p>I am about to have my second baby I know I\u2019m not alone when I say the last thing I want is more&nbsp;<em style=\"font-size: 15px\">stuff<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">&nbsp;to fill my house. Instead, I have come up with this list of the best baby shower gift alternatives with 5 Gifts a New Mom in Dallas&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 15px\">Really<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 15px\">&nbsp;Wants:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From house cleaning to sending out the laundry, these home services are guaranteed to make a new mom\u2019s life easier. I found that when I first had my daughter, I was still trying to clean everything because we had a stream of people coming over. If you can hire a maid or a cleaning service for the new parents, mom can relax and enjoy time with her newborn while someone else takes care of the dirty work for awhile.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmaids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gmaids<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dallas.momcollective.com\/gifts-new-moms-in-dallas-really-want\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Moms Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Megan Harney&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;September 13, 2016 Once you hit the \u2018mom of young kids\u2019 stage of life, it seems like you are constantly being invited to baby showers. I remember the same thing happening when everyone I knew got married at the same time and we spent three years saving every spare vacation day for weddings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[276],"tags":[328,61,326,327],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews-press","tag-baby-shower","tag-dallas","tag-gifts","tag-moms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gmaids-press-header-blog.png?fit=1200%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hhPW-kp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmaids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}