Yesterday I shared some ideas for what to buy a premature baby today I would like to share with you a gift that keeps on giving.

A gift that would be perfect for a preemie mummy as she brings her baby or babies home.

I think if my own children were to have a baby, premature or term, this is a gift I might buy. Would also be perfect for a sister or close friend with a first baby. Maybe someone will subscribe to this great service for Kate and Wills?

Nurture Box describe their product as ‘care parcels for parents’. What a fabulous idea. I only wish that someone had known about this and bought it for me.

How It Works

With Nurture Box you will receive a package each month filled with great products for your child and a well-deserved treat for mum. We also donate a proportion of our profits to help less fortunate children across the world.

All the products in our boxes have been carefully hand-selected and tested by our parenting panel to ensure everything we send is top quality and really useful. We do not allow companies to pay to put their products in our boxes, so you can be assured that whatever you receive is a genuine favourite of our parent panel.

A subscription is from £19 – £22 per month and postage is always free. The contents of the box are worth between £35 – £45 per month, meaning you’re getting great value.

Nurture Box very kindly sent us one of their care parcels to review.

Time To Eat Box

We were sent the October box, Time To Eat, which has been perfect for us as Matilda is now 7 months and beginning to explore the delights of solid food.

The box contains some really useful products for this stage of parenting and of baby’s development.

TUMTUM Tiny Snackpots (http://www.tumtumtots.com)
We love these snackpots with their cute fun ‘bugs’ designs. Great for carrying assorted food and snacks for a day out and small enough to fit nicely in your bag or into a lunch box. Pots also fit conveniently inside each other for easy storage, are PVC, BPA & phthalate free and dishwasher safe, which makes life easier at the end of a long day!

Nature’s Purest Bibs (http://www.naturespurest.co.uk)
Soft, luxurious bibs from Natures Purest made from naturally coloured cotton products to let your baby’s skin breathe easier. As well as looking great, it is comforting to know that the bibs (like all Nature Purest products) are 100% free from pollution-causing fertilisers, harmful pesticides and chemicals.

SNACK’N GO food pouch (http://www.afinechoice.co.uk)
These reusable snack bags are great for carrying around healthy, delicious snacks on-the-go and are small enough to conveniently fit in your pocket! And of course they don’t contain any nasty chemicals such as BPA. They are also easy to clean and your little one can even write his name on it!

Brother Max 4-in-1 trainer cup (http://www.brothermax.com)
This training cup provides 4 easy steps from bottle to cup, encouraging your little one to learn and develop. We love the great mixture of style and functionality – the lean forward profile follows the child’s arm movement for easy table to mouth use. It is also non spill to reduce mess.

Natalia Mum’s Miracle Balm (http://www.vitaltouch.com)
This month’s treat is for mum (or dad!) is a rejuvenating skin balm to nourish skin in need of a little extra care. It is made from organic ingredients such as shea butter, calendula and rosehip seed, so as well as being ultra hydrating, it is kind and gentle to skin. It is also ideally sized to fit nicely in your bag!

The snack pots have proved to be really useful with Matilda and the twins. We are out and about every single day and these lovely pots make snacks on the go fresh and fun. The larger pot is deep enough to have layer of sandwiches which is great for picnics and for school.

Picnic Lunch

Yummy For My Tummy

The set of four different sized pots are great for presenting a range of different foods to baby. I find with Matilda that introducing finger foods in different ways encourages her to try more things. The empty pots are also great for stacking and for matching the right lid to the right pot.

The bibs in our Nurture Box were beautifully presented and look almost too good to use. We have now used them and they are super soft against Matilda’s skin. They fold up nice and small so are great for babies that lunch!

Beautiful Boxed Bibs

The Snack N Go food pouches have proved very popular with Esther and William. Not only do they like to have their food from them on the go but they also like to use them at home for toy beds and for hiding things in. Another product with many uses for an imaginative two year old!!

Hmmmm, now, what can I hide in here???

Matilda’s favourite product from the box has definitely been the trainer cup. She is able to easily hold the lovely long handles and can chomp away on the soft chewable spout. I have not yet managed to get her to drink anything from it though. Only mummy’s milk will do for our Matilda Mae. But I will be persevering with the cup, especially nwo she has a very sharp little tooth!!

Chomp Chomp

For me the mummy gift was a lovely luxurious surprise. A little pot of balm for soothing dry skin. It is wonderful to use on dry patches and it has a very gentle relaxing scent. This felt like such a special treat for me, a way of saying ‘Here you go, mummy. This is for you. What a fab job you are doing. Keep up the good work.’ All of that. In a jar. Inside a box. A Nurture Box!

I think that Nurture Box is a fabulous and thoughtful gift for a new mummy. As I said before it is a gift that keeps on giving. How wonderful for a tired mummy drowning in washing and suffering from sleep deptivation to have a care parcel delivered to them each month. It would be something to look forward to, something to share with baby and for them both to enjoy. Each month the box is filled with products linked to a theme such as travel or ‘Wrapping Up For Winter’.

The boxes are great value for money too and each month the box has a theme that is perfectly timed to baby’s development and the blossoming bond between mummy and child.

Here is a sneak peek at the summer holiday themed box that is filled with fabulous travel goodies for parent and baby.

A Nurture Box subscription is a wonderful gift idea for a new mummy or daddy. A parcel of care each month for as long as you wish to subscribe. A six month subscription costs £120 and means that your chosen new mummy would receive products worth over double that from a range of family friendly companies with babies best interests at heart. A perfect gift to celebrate a new family member. A festive gift for a brand new family?

Or perhaps you could treat yourself? A little pick me up package delivered to your door.

Just what the new mummy ordered!

And you would not only be treating your baby you would be feeding a hungry child too.

For every Nurture Box we deliver we donate a meal to a hungry child through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

There are 925 million undernourished people in the world today. That means one in seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to the health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

To combat this, the World Food Programme is fighting hunger every day, whether they’re saving lives in an emergency or providing schoolchildren with vital nourishment. For more information on this worthy cause, please see http://www.wfp.org/hunger.

To find out more about Nurture Box you can visit their website, follow them on Twitter or Like their page on Facebook. They also write a blog which is well worth a read.

We were sent one Nurture Box for the purpose of this review. All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.