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WETTING THE BABY'S HEAD - PERFECT GIFTS FOR THE NEW DAD

So, the waiting is over, the 9 months are up and baby is here! These will be exciting, exhilarating and exhausting times, but definitely worth taking a few moments to mark this change in your lives! These are our suggestions for gifts for new dads, to mark this change in status to Daddy, or perhaps adding to his existing brood!

Fit to Burst with Pride

We love: these personalised Dad photo albums

Perfect gift for the new dad: as you can personalise everything about the cover, and there's lots of space for photos of your new addition.

Shop at: Not On the High Street

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: well, this is it, as it's currently just £8.50 which is a bargain for a personalised gift

We love: these Pint and Half Pint t-shirts

Perfect gift for the new dad: because they are cute without being cutesy! Perfect!

Shop at: Not On the High Street

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: with the VAT reduction, these now start at £19.56, so just under the £20 target!

We love: these silver cufflinks with baby's fingerprints captured forever

Perfect gift for the new dad: as they are truly a one off, unique present! Grown men have been known to cry on receiving these!

Shop at: Not On the High Street

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: Try the Hand and Foot Print Canvas Kit from The Keepsake Co for a different take on capturing them for posterity. Current price is just £8.99

We love: this Khaki Changing Bag from BabaBing

Perfect gift for the new dad: as he'll carry it like a badge of honour of his new status, as well as finding it's incredibly useful for when he's out and about with junior!

Shop at: John Lewis

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: try the London City Bag from Ducti at just £19.95. Roomy enough for everything he'll need!

Marking the Moment - gifts to capture the moment of becoming a new dad

We love: your very own photo montage on canvas

Perfect gift for the new dad: because these are special memories that deserve the special treatment. You supply the photos and the rest gets done for you!

Shop at: The Bespoke Gift Company

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: try Photobox who do the same thing but on photographic paper starting at just £9.99

We love: personalised photo books that tell your own story of this amazing adventure with baby!

Perfect gift for the new dad: because you're bound to take a whole heap of photos of the new addition and the new dad in a short space of time, and this is a great way of doing something special with them.

Shop at: Photo Box

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: try the minibooks which start at just £5.99

We love: having tiny hands and feet cast in "bronze"

Perfect gift for the new dad: because the thing about babies is that they grow really quickly. And you wake up one day and can't remember just how little they were. With one of their kits you could take moulds of just baby's hand or foot, or you could do the new dad's at the same time!

Shop at: The Bespoke Gift Co

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: Just a touch over the £20 mark, but The Keepsake Co offer a 3D casting kit for £21.99

We love: a digital photo frame

Perfect gift for the new dad: if the whole getting photos into a photo book is too much like hard work, then this gives him a way to show off all those photos. Or it's something he can fall asleep in front of!

Shop at: Play.com for a good selection (one shown is £39.99)

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: how about a digital photo frame key ring from just £9.39, so he can carry great shots wherever he goes?

Spoil Him a Little - indulgent gifts for the new father!

We love: this vintage style Meccano set

Perfect gift for the new dad: because he's probably secretly hankered after Meccano for years! And this is the real stuff, not the current stuff. Just keep it away from baby till they turn 8!

Shop at: Hamleys

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: how about a box of Lego? He can get practising now with a box of basic bricks from just £6.35

We love: personalised beer just for him

Perfect gift for the new dad: as you've created a special "vintage" of your own together, then he might enjoy a few of these vintages too! These personalised beer bottles have some pretty good brews inside and there are other options if beer is not his thing.

Shop at: Branded Beer

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: Buy him a mini bottle of champagne, like Veuve Cliquot which is £17.90 at TheDrinkShop.com

We love: these adorable new baby biscuits from Biscuiteers

Perfect gift for the new dad: because they taste as good as they look. Something fabulous to go with a cup of tea or coffee, particularly at odd hours of the night, or early in the morning!

Shop at: Not On the High Street

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: the pair of football boots biscuits are very cute too!

We love: the New Daddy Hamper

Perfect gift for the new dad: because it's got some great treats for now, and things to keep like an "I Love Daddy" photo frame, and a useful Baby Owners Manual!

Shop at: Funky Hampers

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: Just get him The Baby Owner's Manual, which is just £10.99 and packed full of useful tips!

Keeping Up With Tradition - new traditional gifts for new dads

We love: appropriately coloured champagne

Perfect gift for the new dad: as it's a great occasion for champagne, and you could get pink for a girl, one with a blue label for a boy, or any combination thereof!

Shop at: TheDrinkShop.com

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: apply exactly the same principle for Cava or other fizz, such as The Adnams Selection Rosé Fizz at £7.50 a bottle

We love: Chocolate Truffle Cigars from Venchi

Perfect gift for the new dad: because although a cigar might be traditional, we're thinking of everyone's health. So he could enjoy a few of these without much guilt, other than over the calories!

Shop at: Chocolate Trading Co

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: these are just £3.49 each, so well under even our £10 target for a credit crunch gift!

We love: a fabulous family photo shoot

Perfect gift for the new dad: because this is the modern take on the traditional family portrait, and will give you a wonderful memory captured forever!

Shop at: Virgin Experience Days

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: discover the timer button on your camera, and have a go yourself! Then try somewhere like Photobox for different things to do with your favourite shot!

We love: Brighton Bubbly

Perfect gift for the new dad: if both or either of you have taken the pledge for ever or just during your pregnancy and breastfeeding, you don't need to think you're going to miss out on a bit of fizz! Brighton Bubbly has all the flavour but less than 0.5% alcohol

Shop at: The Alcohol Free Shop

Canny Credit Crunch Choice: a bottle of this is just £5.86 at the moment, so tasty and cheap. Got to be a good combination!

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