It’s Friday night and what a better way to end off the week with a glass of wine and a soak in the tub!  To top it off the gorgeous Sohum Cosmetics products to make your skin feel gorgeous.  We just love Sohum, the fragrances, the creams and the candles for a bit of mood lighting….we stock their products in a lot of our baby hampers and more so in our something for mum boxes.  Love this image, gives the feeling of being nice and clean….happy weekend everyone!   L&J

Here are some beautiful names that we have noticed when people have placed orders with us this week….

For girls – Evie, Emily, Sarah, Chloe, Ruby, Grace, Holly, Abby, Alexandra, Leila, Sophia, Sophie, Charlotte;

And for the boys – Noah, Samuel, Charlie, Lucas, Oliver, Callum, Marco…

The girls are still outweighing the boys in numbers.  A few of these were even twins.  Can’t wait to share some more names with you soon.

L&J

There have been an abundance of twin boxes ordered lately…..we have had 3 lots of twin boys just this week.  We found over last year there were so many girls born but with orders going they way they have recently the boys are catching up.  This twins box is super popular….one way to make sure the new parents to twins have the coming home from hospital outfits sorted!

You know what it’s like, you have just had your new baby and you get home and if you didn’t find out the sex beforehand you get online and try and find stuff for your new little boy or girl.  It’s so exciting and probably the first thing you want to buy is clothes for the new baby then linen.  Baby Batches is looking into stocking cot linen (we do sell Bubba Blue cot sheets in our corporate baby hampers) but thinking of selling beautiful cot sets.   We love this set by Lullaby Linen (image via Lullaby Linen)

Wow, we are so excited.  We have just received this gorgeous Christening Bangle and it’s up on our website now for only $55.00!  This gorgeous and simple sterling silver Christening Bangle is the perfect baby gift for the next Christening, Baptism or Naming Day.  The bangle is solid sterling silver with a swing open clasp and you can even have it engraved with the baby’s name.  Buy this individually as a gift or add the bangle to a Christening Hamper, whatever you choose it will be a special gift that the child will be able to keep forever.  The bangle is for a baby up to about 2 years of age!

J&L

We are not going to get involved in the big dummy debate, we think you either love them or hate them. Our personal view is that we both used a dummy on our kids and for us it was a life saver at times.  We sell Lauren Hinkley “My First Dummy” as an add-on for all of our baby hampers and it’s such a nice little something to add to your baby gift (and reasonably priced too at $8.95)!

J&L

This gorgeous baby hamper was ordered from us today for a beautiful newborn girl from a large corporate firm.  It has everything in it for the new baby and we are sure the new Mum will be thrilled with everything in it – from a Pure Baby winter spotted suit with matching bunny rug and bib, toy giraffe for the nursery, Bubba Blue pink spot hooded towel and Lauren Hinkley soap for bathtime, bottle of mini Moet for the new Mum to celebrate with Fardoulis chocolates and a luxurious Sohum cream soap for Mum.

This hamper is a great idea for work colleagues and/or friends to all chip in to buy and takes the pain out of walking the shops to finding the perfect gift.  Here is the link to this beautiful and popular girl baby hamper – http://www.babybatches.com.au/bluecart/products/winter-corporate-box-for-girls.

So today, here are the 20 top Australian girls names for 2011 as per the survey by www.babycenter.com.au.  Last night we published the top 20 boys names for 2011 (as per the Baby Center website survey) and today it is time for the girls names to be revealed.  They are:

Chloe, Sophie, Ruby, Charlotte, Olivia, Lily, Ava, Ella, Emily, Mia, Sienna, Amelia, Isabella, Lucy, Zoe, Grace, Isabelle, Maddison, Emma and in no. 20 spot tied was Charlie and Hannah

We love all these names and at Baby Batches have had quite a few of these names on gift cards for the new arrivals.  Let us know any names that weren’t on the list that you love or alternatively, if you have used on of these names recently.

L&J

Wanting to know the some of the most popular names if you are having a boy?  We visited www.babycentre.com.au and had a look at the statistics they had pooled together.  The Australian 20 most popular boys names on their list were:

Oliver, Noah, William, Lachlan, Ethan, Jack, Lucas, Charlie, Joshua, Thomas, Max, Riley, Jacob, Aiden, Liam, Jackson, Cooper, Alexander, Xavier and last but not least, Benjamin.

We would love to know some of you names that made this list or others that missed out.

We thought it was about time we let you get to know us.  As you know we are sisters and we are both mums, Jane has a 10 year old son, Dan and Liz has a 3 year old daughter, Abby – they love to hate each other but really do love eachother.  They spend so much time together they are practically brother and sister.

Here is a snap of us….(Jane on the left and Liz on the right)

J&L