Father's Day Gift Ideas for Expectant Dads

Ties to Toys to Tools: The Best Gifts for New Fathers

While pregnant, expectant mothers are showered with attention, advice, and praise, but even as the baby begins to kick, expectant fathers begin to doubt their impending new parent status. A woman feels like a mother from the instant she realizes the existence of the new life growing within her, but for new fathers, the process is more difficult. Offering a Father’s Day gift to an expectant father is a way to celebrate his new status and help him embrace his part in the new life he has helped create.

Traditional Trinkets

For a man who has never been honored as a father, a traditional Father’s Day gift may be the best choice to introduce him to his new role. A tacky tie is the classic example: choosing a tie in a baby blue or pastel pink shade can connect the expectant father to his new son or daughter. Other novelty ties may have “Dad” or “Daddy” printed on them, or may be decorated with baby-oriented patterns such as bottles, pacifiers, strollers, or toys. While these may seem like corny choices, many men will delight in the opportunity to proclaim their new parent status – an expectant mother, after all, needs no such accessory for people to realize she’s about to be a mommy.

Other traditional Father’s Day gift ideas include tools and home maintenance equipment: to associate these items with a new baby, choose tools that are needed to prepare for the infant’s arrival. Childproofing equipment, kits to assemble baby furniture, and paint for the new nursery are excellent options. Such gifts will not only offer the father the opportunity to indulge his handyman skills, but also to use those skills to welcome his new child into a safe and happy home.

A third Father’s Day gift option for traditionally minded men is a simple cake or card that honors their role as a new parent. Bakeries are happy to create customized desserts with pastel baby colors, names, and congratulatory messages, and stationers have a wide range of greeting cards available for fathers in any stage of parenthood.