As you drink your morning coffee, you glance at the cute baby shower invitation on your refrigerator.  Suddenly it hits you…  “Oh wow, Jill’s shower is coming up THIS Saturday–and I still need to get her a gift!”

Jill might be your neighbor, your coworker, your sister-in-law.  Anyway, you just want to offer her something thoughtful, stylish, and nicely packaged–something that will prove useful to her again and again, whether she’s a new mom or a veteran.  Something that none of Jill’s other shower guests is likely to duplicate.

Look no further.  We at PrestoPink have found the perfect cool, useful, just-a-little-different baby shower gift.  The Ice-Qube Baby-to-Go Emergency Preparedness Kit ($75 through BabiesRUs.com).  Kit includes baby lotion, baby soap, baby powder, baby shampoo, wipes, blanket, bodysuit T-Shirt, dummy, nappies, nappy cream, ice pack,gloves, gauze pads bandage strips, first-aid burn cream, alcohol wipes, antiseptic wipes, antibacterial wipes, first-aid quick reference, tweezer, important documents pouch, medicine spoon, nasal bulb, oral syringe, thermometer and Ice-Qube Baby Emergency Plan.

Jill will just love it–we promise!  If she’s a new mom, she may not even realize when she opens it up at the shower just how often she will thank her lucky stars. A collection of all-important items in one place, ready to grab.  What a relief!  If this is Jill’s second or third baby, she will recognize in a heartbeat the collection of items she has told herself again and again she ought to have stashed in a just-for-baby kit.

I myself am a mother of four–and you would think that by the time Kiddo #4 came along that I would have had my own baby-to-go emergency kit to keep in the car or in a bathroom vanity.  But somehow, I don’t think I ever did  gather all of those items together in one place–just for the baby.  I’d have all of that stuff around, some items in the diaper bag–some in the medicine cabinet.  But I’d use the spare onesie and forget to put a clean one in the bag before the next diaper explosion.  And then the tweezers in the bathroom would somehow magically disappear after a splinter surgery.  Or a kid would use my last first-aid icepack to chill a juice box.

Whether for Baby #1 or Baby #4, I would have loved receiving a kit like this–and for all that it contains, it’s really a good value.

And, of course, it is available online–with free shipping.  At $75, it may be a wee bit pricey for some budgets–but this is also the perfect sort of gift to go in on with another friend (who will, of course love you for making her life easier…since she is also staring nervously at the invitation on her fridge as she sips her coffee).