Gift for a newborn and family in Switzerland

December 5, 2014 2:26 AM

Our friends in Geneva just had a baby, and we'd like to do something more interesting than just sending flowers. Is there something else nice we could get delivered to them? Or a just-perfect gift certificate we could purchase online? The complication is that we currently live in the U.S. Any suggestions are welcome!
posted by whitewall to Shopping (4 answers total)

Etsy sellers physically located in Switzerland. Buy online, your seller can ship direct to your gift recipient. (I usually just add a comment on my order asking them to throw in a Post-it with "best wishes from..." scrawled on it.)

PS: I urge you in the STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS to choose this dinosaur baby hat.
posted by DarlingBri at 3:12 AM on December 5, 2014

My go to baby gift is a portable high chair; I arranged for a nearby company to send one to friends in the NL when they adopted their youngest.
posted by brujita at 7:11 AM on December 5, 2014

Jubilane Toys
There's you a Swiss toy store with the descriptions in English, though the prices are still in Swiss francs. I see no reason you couldn't put in their address when delivering. I'm quite partial to the Hape toys myself.
posted by Trifling at 8:13 AM on December 5, 2014

Clothes! I've heard from one mother friend in Switzerland that the clothes are really boring -- H&M and not much else, so everyone just wears the same stuff. I'd get something really cute that they might not have (mini-Boden, maybe? -- they deliver throughout the EU.) Etsy sounds good to me too!
posted by caoimhe at 3:24 PM on December 5, 2014