There are so many wonderful gifts you can choose as a memento of a baby’s birth, most of which fit into a specific category such as flowers, hampers or silver. Here’s something totally different and very unusual which I personally think is a lovely idea: Each day since mid-summer’s day 2005, landscape photographer Gavan Goulder has taken stunning photographs of the Cornish coastline, so you can buy a beautifully framed photograph to mark the day of your (or a friend’s) baby’s birth. Take a look and see.

Pink Lining is a distinctive fashion label which aims to provide bags which are beautiful, functional and practical. The range includes wallets, wash bags, weekend bags and the signature "Yummy Mummy" nappy bags. Expect exclusively designed fabrics with leather trims, often enhanced with intricate applique detail and whimsical embroidered slogans and cleverly thought out pockets for mobiles, blackberries, pens and keys. All the bags have the signature shocking pink lining.

Balloons offers designer childrenswear from 0 - 16 years, with brands including Catimini, Replay, Miss Sixty, Kenzo, Timberland and Ted Baker. They're adding new designers each season such as Energie for boys and Oilily for girls so keep checking back to see what's on offer.

When you want your feet (or your children’s feet) to be a warm and cosy as possible you should buy some slippers from this very simple website. Children’s sizes go from 9 – 2 and you can buy half collared or plain moccasin styles – there are more styles for adults. For what these are the prices are extremely reasonable and although if you’re reading this in the summer you probably won’t want to buy right now you should remember this site for later in the year.

This may not be a baby advice website, nor an online baby magazine, but it’s somewhere I definitely recommend you take a look if you need help to stay organised (and who doesn’t with children?). At Organised Mum you can buy diaries, wall charts, calendars, stickers and the wonderful ‘Family Organiser’ which I would definitely buy if I thought for a moment my family would help me use it properly by providing the necessary information. Standard delivery is free on orders over £5.

Skinstore offers two ranges that have been specially created for pregnancy and early motherhood. The first is Benev, which concentrates on anti-aging and is free from synthetic chemicals, fragrances and preservatives. The second is Belli Cosmetics which combines medically proven treatments with the holistic benefits of aroma, taste and massage therapies. What's great about this website is that you can access their online chat facility and 'talk' to an expert before you buy to help to make sure that what you're buying will be right for you.

There are some lovely gift ideas here for babies, all in Aspinal’s signature high quality leather and well thought out designs. Choose from contemporary and traditional photo albums covered in pretty pastel shades, baby shower gift books, suede photo frames, photo wallets and keepsake boxes. Most items can be personalised and everything can be beautifully gift boxed and sent out with your personal message.

The next time you're considering sending flowers to someone as a thank-you gift have a look at this website and you may well be pursuaded to send something entirely different. The Classic Box from For Goodness Cake arrives brimming with dainty fairy cakes, prettily packaged in a high quality, pale blue box and tied with fuchsia ribbon. They're freshly baked so you need to eat them quickly, but having received one myself, recently, I can assure you that that won't be a problem. There are ideas for children and weddings plus seasonal suggestions as well.

If you're looking for a gorgeous gift for a small person, or just want to start your children off on the tidy trail early, then take a look here at these pretty hand-painted toy and keepsake boxes for boys and girls. They can be personalised with names or messages, and there are keepsake boxes for new babies and weddings, money boxes and hand-painted door signs available here too. Call them for worldwide delivery.

Boutique to You specialises in personalised gifts and jewellery with a wealth of gift choices in each boutique section whether it be for designer jewellery collections, mum and baby gifts, wedding gifts and bridesmaid gifts and gifts for children including their exclusive designer jewellery by Fairy Tale Jewels Boutique. On their website there’s a wish list facilty so you can send ' wish mails' to your nearest and dearest with hints of what you’d like to receive.

If you've just had a baby or you know someone who has it would be well worth your while taking a look at this website from a retailer specialising in baby bags. The kind of bag that holds all the paraphernalia you need if you go out, with multiple compartments to keep everything separate, that you can use as a shoulder bag if you want or attach to your high tech buggy. There are lots to choose from the Million Dollar Baby Bag (extremely expensive) to the excellent Skip Hop bag which comes in lots of colours.

There's just one product here, and it's essential for anyone who's just had a baby and doesn't want to lose the chic, stylish look she's always worked hard to maintain. So: This bag not only looks good and comes in canvas, print and leather versions but it also works hard as the perfect baby bag with three detachable interior compartments, long zip pulls, bottle holder and loads of other special details.

Lula Sapphire offers a wide range of products and appears again below in the Organic baby products section, as most of its range is environmentally friendly. It’s here as well for its excellent collection of changing bags (many of which don’t look like changing bags at all) so if you want something really chic invest in the wonderful, modern StorkSak Gigi, which’ll hold everything for the baby plus your laptop too.

I have to confess that if I was going the baby route again (which I most certainly am not), this would probably be my first port of call as StorkSak create wonderful ‘baby’ bags which look like nothing of the sort – in black quality nylon with leather straps and excellent fittings, although if you’re not like me an addicted to black you can have your bag in rose, sky or modern print as well. Shapes are tote, classic shoulder shaped, smart weekend or modern slouch and they offer all the accessories you need too.

For a baby bag that's a cross between just that and a chic tote/handbag (and an investment at the same time) take a look here at a range of bags handmade in Italy which definitely have that designer feel. There's plenty of room and pockets inside and each bag is available in a choice of leathers and prints. Expect to spend around £200 and buy something that's made to last.

Here's a website where you can find a totally unique kind of present. At Albumania you design your own photo album, box file, guest book, address book or diary. You just download a photograph (digitally), choose the colour of binding and ribbon, all online and then you can see exactly what the cover of your book will look like. While you're ordering you have the option of adding extra pages and adding a ribbon tied card with your personal message. All the books are gift boxed and take about two weeks.

This is definitely a lovely place to buy a gift for a new mum (or if you are one, to treat yourself). They offer pretty polka dot mama and baby pyjamas, chic nursing tops, Superfluffie alpaca slippers, pampering gift sets and incredibly elegant baby bags as just some of their ideas. You can book baby portrait sessions and buy Gift Vouchers here as well.

Pretty embroidered baby blankets, Jack Rabbit sweater and hat sets, Bath House Baby Bubbles and Emile et Rose padded jackets and all-in-ones are just some of the items you’ll find here on this excellent gift website where you can also buy pampering presents for new mums. Everything is beautifully packaged and they’ll ship throughout the EU and to specified other international destinations.

You can, of course, just walk into your local wine merchant and buy your bottle of bubbly then and there. Or you could do something a bit different and send a bottle of Veuve Clicquot in its very own ice bucket with your personalized card, or a boxed mini bottle of Laurent Perrier with a candle and bath essence. Alternatively you can arrange to have a personalized label created for a gift containing two or three bottles.

Bath & Unwind specialise in luxury products that help you to relax (and unwind) after a hard day's work. They aim to provide the highest quality bath and spa products from around the world including brands such as Aromatherapy Associates, Korres, Nougat, Burt's Bees and Jane Packer. Delivery is free (UK) provided you spend over a certain amount and they'll ship to you anywhere in the world. They also have a gift selector and an express service for the next time you forget that special present.

Well known and sold throughout the World, Crabtree & Evelyn offer a wide range of bath, body and spa products from classic fragrances such as Lily of the Valley to the ultra modern La Source. Everything is cleverly and attractively packaged and offered on their well designed and easy to use website. Particularly good as gifts are their pretty boxes containing miniatures of their most popular products.

This is a very special website offering some unusual and hard to find bath and body products and fragrance by Diptyque (If you haven’t already tried their candles you really should, they’re gorgeous), Cath Collins, La Compagnie de Provence (try their hand wash) and Cote Bastide. There are also fragrances by Annik Goutal, Coudray and Rosine and for the bathroom they have lovely fluffy towels and bathrobes.

If you haven't used it already you should really try this fun and incredibly useful website, where along with new clever beauty products and jewellery (and absolutely everything you could need for your hair including Blax, Nexxus and Paul Mitchell products), you'll also discover Anya Hindmarch, Kate Spade and Lulu Guinness exquisite cosmetic bags, (perfect for presents and also for treats) also lots of beauty accessories including high quality makeup and hair brushes.

MumsTheWord.com was created in order to bring you some of the best natural and organic pregnancy product ranges. The focus is on skincare, beauty and well-being products made specifically for pregnant women, and although most of the products featured are natural or organic, not all of them are, so you can decide which product suits your lifestyle best. Stretch mark skincare, essential oils, morning sickness relief, pampering gifts, books and diaries are just some of the things you’ll discover here.

Unlike almost all conventional candles (which contain paraffin wax and synthetic oils), Natural Magic candles are made from clean, pure vegetable wax, scented with the best quality organic aromatherapy oils. They're also twice the size of the average candle (1kg) with 3 wicks and up to 75 hours of burn time. Each candle has a specific theraputic task, such as uplifting, inspiring, soothing and de-stressing and all are beautifully packaged and perfect for treats and gifts.

Nars, Stila, Darphin, Laura Mercier, Eve Lom, Diptyque, Frederic Fekkai and Dr Sebagh are just some of the 60 plus brands offered on the website of this retailer, famous for bringing unusual and hard to find products to the UK (so you don't have to go to New York any more to buy your Frederic Fekkai shampoo: Shame). They're also an excellent place for gifts as they offer a personalised message and gift wrapping service and next day delivery if you need it. It's a well designed and easy to get round website with very clear pictures.

David Austin is famous for developing new types of English Roses, with his first, 'Constance Spry', launched in 1963. On his website you can find many varieties, including Modern Hybrid Tea Roses and Floribundas, Climbing Roses, Ramblers, Modern Shrub Roses and Wild Species Roses. You'll also find his new fragrant English Roses created specially for the home. Order his gift boxed container roses and exquisite rose bouquets here as well for UK delivery.

There are a lots of items here to buy which are not necessarily gift related, such as TENS machines, morning sickness relief, lingerie and support and relaxation products but there are also some good gift ideas in the (surprise) Pregnancy Gift section including jewellery and pampering products and best of all, they offer gift wrapping and boxing and pretty cards too.

Here are the most beautifully presented, modern flowers to send as a gift or if you want to give yourself a treat, to yourself. The range in her stores is much larger than what's offered online, but here you'll find roses, hyacinths, pink parrot tulips, orchids and mixed bouquets all presented in her unique, chic style. You can buy Jane Packer's books, fragranced bath and body gifts, champagne and chocolates and gift vouchers here as well.

Virtually anything from Jo Malone’s wonderfully luxurious collection of pampering treats will make a lovely gift, from her Lime Basil and Mandarin Cologne to her Amber and Lavender shampoo and conditioner. This type of gift giving is not just about the products, it’s about the whole atmosphere of relaxation and luxury they create and as the packaging is gorgeous too you need do no more than place your order and have it sent out for you (or better still, of course, deliver it yourself).

If you’d like to give fruit as a gift but don’t really want to send the same as everyone else take a look here. Passionleaf create quite amazing, real fruit bouquets (which currently they can only deliver within the M25) using strawberries, melons, oranges and pineapples cut into pretty shapes and packed into wicker tubs. Just to look at this website will make your mouth water. You can also add balloons and chocolate strawberries to your gift. Call to order.

The White Company is one place I immediately turn to for gifts for friends who’ve just had a baby and for babies as well. It’s a collection that just seems to get better all the time with beautiful photography, reasonable prices and excellent service combining to make you want to buy much more than you set out to. Take a look at their supersoft towelling robes and pretty toiletry sets or luxurious cushions and throws and you definitely won’t go wrong. For babies there are cashmere shawls, satin edged polar fleece blankets and pretty gift sets in different prints plus lots of other ideas.

The aim of Snowflake Showers is to provide you with complete no-fuss baby shower kits that look like they took months to plan and because the same group of mums and mums to be often attend each other's showers, Snowflake Showers provide small twists and tweaks that make each event slightly different. What you receive when you send for one of their kits (based on a party of ten but you can add on extra people in fives) is a Rule Book (just in case you don’t know it all already), hand-made invites and thank you cards, balloons, confetti, table accessories, games and favours.

This is an excellent website if you’re considering having a baby shower, as not only can you find out everything you need to know about them in a delightfully simple and friendly way, you can also find a Planning Checklist, recipes for scones (afternoon tea, of course), The Ultimate Cheese Fondue and canapés (for an evening shower) and buy all the essentials such as invitations and tablewear making this a really good, well priced, one stop destination.

This is a collection of beautiful personalised candles for all occasions including birth and christenings.. Once you've chosen your design (and there's a wide choice), you give them the baby’s name and the date of birth as well as, for some candles, a photograph and/or a poem that you'd like included. You need to allow at least three weeks for your candles to arrive and they deliver all over the World.

Potions & Possibilities produce natural toiletries and aromatherapy products, ranging from soaps and bath oils to restorative balms and creams. Everything is blended and created using the highest quality essential oils, and you can find their award winning products in Bloomingdales (in the US) and Fenwicks in the UK among other stores and of course online. Resist if you can or choose from bath sizzlers, bath and shower gels, shampoos, fragrance and gift collections.

There are lots of different types of new and expecting mum gifts here, so whether she’s into natural, spa or the beautifully fragranced type of pampering you’ll find it here. There’s also the Booties Keepsake Book which comes in blue or pink (of course), Beatrix Potter My First Year book and Natalia New Parent Survival Kit. There are other types of gifts here also including teddies and champagne, new baby gifts and food hampers.

This company will put together the most mouthwatering mix of fresh fruit and present it beautifully in a basket so that you can send it as a gift, with names such as the Exotic Fruit Basket and the Supreme Fruit Basket both packed with perfect Class 1 seasonal fruits. You can also add cheese, wine, teddies and champagne to your selected basket.

This is a really beautiful website with an extremely luxurious feel where you can buy exquisitely packaged hand made soaps (think Flower Garden and Honey Cake and their Natural soap decorated with a shell), bath and body products such as Geranium and Bergamot Oil and Petit Grain bath crystals, plus a range of perfect gift boxes containing a selection of their products

Established in 1984, Virginia Hayward offers a beautifully presented traditional range of gifts & hampers which would be perfect for new mothers. There’s a wide choice of food and wine related gifts plus pampering gifts which you can send for mothers and babies. You can choose from a named or standard delivery and they'll deliver to BFPO addresses

The New Parent Survival Kit is just one of the gifts you can order from this aromatherapy based website which includes baby massage oil and New Parent Instant Revitaliser (I wish I’d been given that one). If you want something different and special you can call them and they’ll put a gift together for you and all of the products can be beautifully wrapped and sent out on your behalf with your personal message.

This is a very pretty website to browse around, offering well priced items for baby showers which are all in themes, such as Little Angel, Mod Mums and Polka Dot Baby. Once you’ve chosen your theme you then choose from the complete range, which includes table stationery, banners, balloons, confetti and invites plus announcement cards, favour bags and games. There are some attractive gift ideas here as well.

This is a place where you’ll find perfect gifts for baby showers and babies on a really lovely website with an irresistible name. So just choose from their range of soft toys and keepsake boxes, cushions, comforters or fleecy slippers or, if you want something really special and unique, one of their handmade, limited edition gifts.

If you’re not quite sure what you’re doing when you reach this website read the ‘Shower my Baby Quick Tip Guide, which’ll help send you on your way, then you can choose from one of their complete (reasonably priced) packs, their pretty gifts such as personalised plates and keepsake tins and themed party stationery. There’s an ethnic baby range here as well.

Dillon Green specialise in soft toys and other treats for babies, with Steiff and Jelly Cat being the main brands. Then there are microwavable bears (they’re filled with treated wheat grains and lavender flowers and so you can warm them up safely), Minimink gorgeous fake fur scarves, hats and bootees, Miamoo products such as Cuddle Cream and Splashy wash and finally, for mums, Mama Mio pregnancy body treats.

On their pale blue, prettily designed website, Aspen & Brown offer a lovely range of gifts. In the Christening section there are lots of very reasonably priced ideas, from personalised blankets, baby shoes and silver bangles to charm bracelets, hand painted initial canvases and named pictures. My advice would be to stay with the personalised items and the silver as there’s a great choice and these are definitely the most special and unique. Call them for overseas delivery availability.