Special Gifts for Twin Baby Shower

In general, the baby gift I have been giving is something I found on Etsy.com. Ceramic holiday items with the child's name carved in. Example, a ceramic pumpkin but the child's name goes where the mouth would be. They also have snowmen (good for November babies) that have the name carved in the tummy of the snowman. They light up and can serve as night lights or wonderful holiday decorations that the kids can keep pretty much forever. Good luck!

I am currently pregnant with fraternal twin girls and truly applaud your desire to avoid the "matchy matchy." If you know the girls' names, I would say getting two, beautiful, soft, warm baby blankets (not-identical) and having the girls' names embroidered on them would be perfect. The weather will be cool when the girls come home and the first pictures will have the girls swaddled, so having beautiful blankets will be nice.

You could make a creative log for them to use after the babies are born. You can look on-line for templates. When the girls come home, they'll need to keep track of diapers and feedings and the like. Perhaps a log that goes on the fridge and can be filled out with a dry-erase marker?

When I was pregnant with my son, one of the most touching gifts I received was a fabric book my mother made with pictures and information about the family. (She sewed the book with quilting batting to make it plush, and used print-at-home iron-on transfer paper to put the pictures and information on the inside.)

Also, perhaps the nicest thing you can do, is offer to deliver food during the postpardum time. They will have their hands full, and they will appreciate not having fast food all the time.

You are awesome for being so thoughtful for this couple. I wish I had more friends like you. :-)

I have twins who are now 4. The best gift that a friend gave us at our shower was a gift card to our favorite restaurant with a promise to watch our babies so we could have dinner. It was such a treat for us to have that break. We were only gone for about 2 hours because I was nursing and it was hard to get away, but my husband and I SO needed that break. What was even better...and so incredibly thoughtful and touching to us...about a week and a half after our date night, we received a mysterious fat envelope in the mail from PhotoWorks. While they (my friend & her husband) watched our babies (and our 4 yr old), they'd also taken TONS of pictures for us. Instead of getting a gob of loose pictures with no time to sort through them, they went ahead and had 3 little picture books made online - one for each baby and 1 featuring big sis - and gave us a CD of literally hundreds of extra pics they took that night! They are still treasured gifts, and our kids just love going through the books and telling stories to each other about "when we were babies." They thought the gift was such a simple gesture, but it was huge to us. Other than diapers and clothing and blankets and cutesy keepsakes or things we didn't have time to keep up with, it's hard to remember who got us what...or the times to enjoy those things have since passed. We will always remember our first night out post twins and their clever generosity in taking pictures so that we didn't miss anything at home. With the pictures on CD, we made ourselves mousepads, coffee mugs, and magnets, as well as had a few really good shots blown up and framed. They were not our closest friends, but their gifts were truly the most meaningful.

As a mom of twins I would HIGHLY recommed finding a baby book (2 actually!) that was very simple w/ spaces for just the basic information. I got one that had all this space for creative stuff to be put in and I never got to it as I didn't have time to "do it right".

I found things were so crazy w/ 2 babies that I never wrote down when they hit most of their milestones and just had the memory ( a year later) that they had hit them w/in the 'proper' timeframe. If I had a simple book I feel I would have filled it out and it is very important information to have if your child ends up having any delays.

I agree with Amanda, we have twins who are 2 now and the best gift we received was a night out that included a babysitter.

A lot of people got us matching items but I think they only wore one matching outfit and that was because we had pictures taken.. our twins are girl/boy so it wasn't too bad but I was never much into the matching sets.

Special keepsake boxes. Nothing too big. Around the size of a shoebox.

Hello..
I know this isn't quite what you are looking for, but my friend recently had twins and I got her one of the Willow Tree Collection figures that was a set of twins. She was really touched by it.
Also, when I had my youngest my sister ordered me a really nice baby blanket that had all of the family information embroidered on it along with specifics about the baby. Obviously, you'd need to wait until the babies come to order anything like that, but it was a really special keepsake.
Oh and Redbox has some really cute ideas too. If you know the names of the babies already you can order matching embroidered baby clothes, robes, booties etc.
Enjoy!

As a mother to fraternal twin girls myself the thing I liked best was a "twin baby book/scrapbook". I don't know where they found mine at but I liked this website: www.just4twins.com
With my twins I didn't necessarily always like them in the exact same outfit so if I was the one picking I would pick up the same outfit but in different colors like one in pink and the other in purple. I still do this at the age of 7 because it helps me to keep an eye on them better. Also another idea IF she thinks she will have time to read is buy her a subscription to the "TWINS" magazine. I was never quite a reader and didn't even have the time to read with twins and all but if I saw something interesting I made the time. I held onto those magazines too for when the kids got a little older to where I had more time to thumb through......Good luck!