Jesse, the Buy Buy Baby in Chelsea (next to the Whole Foods) is the good big box baby store in NYC. (Don't bother with the Babies R'Us in Union Square - it's crap.)
For brands other than Carters and Gerber, Boing Boing in Park Slope is good, or Area Kids in Carroll Gardens. (Sorry, I only know Brooklyn! I'm sure there are overpriced yuppie baby stores in Queens and Manhattan too...) Oh wait - Metro Minis is on the Upper East Side.
Online: Oompa toys rock. As do soft things from Soft things, including the chewie veggies from Under the Nile.
Good gift? Diaper bag filled with random things like diaper cream, baby soap (I love the scent free mustela for super sensitive skin), cheek stick, a pretty wipe case etc.
If you have an urge to go to a store I love Right Start, but the closest one to you is in White Plains.
My friend's kind of a hippy parent, with the home birth and cloth diapers and whatnot, so I'm sure she'd like some organic shit or whatever.
Under the Nile! I LOVE their stuff. Seriously. And while they are more expensive than Gerber, they are cheaper than the hipster onesie places. Is she really planning to use clothe diapers? Then get her a gift certificate to an online diaper place.
There's an Area Kids by me, right around the block.
Oh, dudes, I absolutely have to get those veggies! (She's a vegetarian, too.) AWESOME.
Thanks, moms!!
I always end up finding babystuff in random places, like airport shops.
Exersaucers are fun!
So I saw Miss Louise coming in and had to tell her about the whole, baby being born thing. I said "Guess what I did last weekend?" And she said "You got married!" Ahahaha. But she was amazed. And said "and now you don't want to birth any babies!" Hee. Well, no, but not on account of the whole witnessing labor thing. Honestly, it didn't really alarm me. I keep coming back to the surreal moment when Hillis was swirling the baby's hair when he was crowning and L was taking a break. Baby. Right there. Doctor playing with his hair. But he's not out. That's just...different.
Under The Nile stuff is made of awesome.
I know miracle of life and all that, but that is like an ita link for me. yunnngghhhh
heeby jeeby dance
good to know my limitations I guess.
Jesse, if you don't want to order it online and you can get to Whole Foods, Whole Foods carries lots of the Under the Nile line.Grace really loves her stuffed carrot.