Based in Wiltshire this online retailer offers an excellent gift delivery service. They have a very good selection including gifts for babies, gourmet hampers, (think The French Hot Chocolate Pot gift set and chocolate truffles with champagne) pampering gift boxes and ideas for men plus lots more. If you need a gift in a hurry I would definitely have a look here as they offer all the right services – gift wrapping including your personal message and express delivery.

There are quite a variety of gifts on offer here for all sorts of occasions including christenings and birthdays. Go straight to the christening gifts section, where there are screen printed photograph albums, children’s traditional chairs, silver spoons and bowls and gorgeous horn and silver accessories. In my opinion you couldn’t go wrong with the beautiful hammered silver bowl they have here and which I haven’t seen anywhere else. The only problem is you’ll probably want to use it first.

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This is a gorgeous baby website, offering so much for babies you could totally get lost. Go past the essential equipment pages and click through to 'Getting Dressed', where you'll find enchanting babygros, sleepsuits and accessories, or to 'Baby Furniture and Accessories', offering a wide range including decorated hangers and a mouse chair or if you're feeling really generous you could choose one of Stevenson Brothers' handmade rocking horses, made to last a lifetime.

Penhaligon, famous for their gorgeous and luxurious fragrance offer some beautiful christening gifts, baby bootees, beautifully wrapped or delicately painted egg cups are just a couple of the ideas here.

In its Christening Gifts section Richmond Silver has quite a wide selection of ideas, ranging from a hallmarked sterling silver bear necklace at under £20 to a heavy gauge hand made silver christening cup for around £200. There are some very good, classic ideas here with which you’re unlikely to go wrong, although I would recommend staying with the sterling silver which is in most cases very reasonably priced, rather than straying off into silver plate, no matter how pretty it looks.

There’s no question that most people give silver for christenings, or beautiful baby clothes. Here’s something slightly different that will almost certainly be used for a long time. The Wool Company’s 100% pure new merino wool blankets have whip-stitched edges and come in a variety of colours from soft blue (polar ice check) and natural cream to wonderful guava check and carmine red. You can also buy nursery sheepskin here and pastel checked ‘cuddle’ blankets plus wonderful blankets for the home.

This is a Cheshire based, high quality baby gift website, where there are delightful gift ideas for newborn and slightly older babies with names such as Baby Play Basket and Luxury Baby on the Go. For slightly older children aged up to two, they have pretty printed cutlery sets and lunch boxes plus colourful soft and wooden toys. As everything is designed to be a gift the products are all beautifully presented so you could have them sent out direct from the retailer.

This is a website just for babies (as you'd expect), and they offer a really lovely range of ideas. Choose from Welcome Home baby boxes with names such as Flower Power and Lullaby, soft lambswool, fleece and cashmere blankets and Christening gifts such as silver charms, chiming spoon and hand knitted heirloom cot blanket. There's also the Yummy Mummy Gift Set to make sure that the new mum isn't forgotten.

Embroidered customised gifts, hand painted, personalised toy boxes, personalised jewellery, pretty bedroom furniture and other unique gifts for babies and children are just some of the things you'll find here. This is not a traditional baby gift website, but one where you're more likely to find something they'll love to own a bit later on, such as a named treasure box. This is by far the strongest part of the website and a gift that is certain to be appreciated.

This is a great range of gifts and ideas for babies and young children of all ages, where you can buy personalised cutlery, clocks and adventure books, baby and toddler sleeping bags, magic lanterns, colourful wall hangings and really clever storage ideas. There's the Squishy, Squirty Bath Book, Jungle Bowling Set (soft toys) and Toy House Play Mat plus loads more clever and innovative ideas. This would be a clever place to find something really different from the normal baby gift.

This is more of a traditional toy shop, where you can buy gifts and toys for children of all ages, including activity toys, dressing up outfits, really pretty room accessories including painted chests of drawers and fairy mobiles and traditional games plus baby gifts such as personalised cushions and towels and bathrobes from ages 6 - 12 months upwards. So if you want something slightly different from the traditional baby gift you may well find it here.

All of Babas beautiful handmade baby bedding and accessories are individually made for you and packed in their own unique calico packaging. You can choose from cot sets, crib sets and moses baskets, sleeping bags and towels in their range of contemporary designs with names such as Noah's Ark, Teddy Triplets and Splashy Duck. Everything is really beautiful and different from what you'll find elsewhere, and perfect for baby gifts.

This is another retailer offering 'basket' gift sets for new babies but the difference here is that these go right up to the luxury end of the spectrum (although starting quite reasonably), with the 'Loveheart' baby basket containing a babygro, cardigan, pram shoes, fleece and photo album and the ultimate 'Fudge' baby basket offering also a cableknit blanket, hand embroidered towel and babygro and handmade photo album, with everything exquisitely packaged.

Here's another prettily designed and easy to get round website specialising in gifts for the new baby. There are ready to send gift sets for boys and girls at a variety of price levels, china gifts such as cups and mugs, money boxes and piggy banks, soft personalised fleece pram blankets and lots more, and if you aren't keen on their own ready made sets you can put your own together and include soft toys, bath wear, sleep suits, blankets and shawls.

Abundance is a family run gift store based in Fulham, London, offering a wide range of ideas for everyone from leather photo albums and attractive mugs and flasks to luxurious pampering presents and cute gifts for kids from babies upwards. It's easy to select by type of gift, occasion or price and there are helpful buying guides as well. Even better, when you visit the site you can see immediately flagged up what your next important gift giving date is - such as Father's Day, 15th June. Better get thinking now.