John Lewis offer a lovely selection of bouquets and arrangements for every occasion and you can be certain that once you've selected what you want to send and chosen the date they'll arrive as and when they should do.

For a high quality choice at a reasonable price as usual John Lewis is very hard to beat.

For a baby bag that's a cross between just that and a chic tote/handbag (and an investment at the same time) take a look here at a range of bags handmade in Italy which definitely have that designer feel. There's plenty of room and pockets inside and each bag is available in a choice of leathers and prints. Expect to spend around £200 and buy something that's made to last.

This is definitely a lovely place to buy a gift for a new mum or baby. They offer pretty polka dot mama and baby pyjamas, chic nursing tops, Superfluffie alpaca slippers, pampering gift sets and incredibly elegant baby bags as just some of their ideas. You can book baby portrait sessions and buy Gift Vouchers here as well.

There are so many websites out there offering just about everything for mother and child that it's really refreshing to find a clever idea that every new parent will want to use. At Baby-Online you create your own website for your baby, choose your design and then keep your site updated with pictures, video clips and journal entries so all your friends and family can keep in touch and up to date wherever they are in the world. A great deal of thought and attention has gone into producing this concept and not only will you want to use it yourself but it would make a wonderful gift as well.

Bath & Unwind specialise in luxury products that help you to relax (and unwind) after a hard day's work. They aim to provide the highest quality bath and spa products from around the world including brands such as Aromatherapy Associates, Korres, Nougat, Burt's Bees and Jane Packer. Delivery is free (UK) provided you spend over a certain amount and they'll ship to you anywhere in the world.

They also have a gift selector and an express service for the next time you forget that special present.

This is a very special website offering beautiful bedlinens, and some unusual and hard to find bath and body products and fragrance by Diptyque Seda France, Lothantique, Geodosis, Cath Collins, La Compagnie de Provence and Cote Bastide. There are also fragrances by Annik Goutal, Coudray and Rosine and for the bathroom they have lovely fluffy towels and bathrobes.

Well known and sold throughout the World, Crabtree & Evelyn offer a wide range of bath, body and spa products from classic fragrances such as Lily of the Valley to the ultra modern La Source. Everything is cleverly and attractively packaged and offered on their well designed and easy to use website. Particularly good as gifts are their pretty boxes containing miniatures of their most popular products.

There are lots of different types of new and expecting mum gifts here, so whether she’s into natural, spa or the beautifully fragranced type of pampering you’ll find it here. There’s also the Booties Keepsake Book which comes in blue or pink (of course), Beatrix Potter My First Year book and Natalia New Parent Survival Kit. There are other types of gifts here also including teddies and champagne, new baby gifts and food hampers.

If you're looking for a gorgeous gift for a small person, or just want to start your children off on the tidy trail early, then take a look here at these pretty hand-painted toy and keepsake boxes for boys and girls. They can be personalised with names or messages, and there are keepsake boxes for new babies and weddings, money boxes and hand-painted door signs available here too. Call them for worldwide delivery.

If you've just had a baby or you know someone who has it would be well worth your while taking a look at this website from a retailer specialising in baby bags. The kind of bag that holds all the paraphernalia you need if you go out, with multiple compartments to keep everything separate, that you can use as a shoulder bag if you want or attach to your high tech buggy. There are lots to choose from the Million Dollar Baby Bag (extremely expensive) to the excellent Skip Hop bag which comes in lots of colours.

Here are the most beautifully presented, modern flowers to send as a gift or if you want to give yourself a treat, to yourself. The range in her stores is much larger than what's offered online, but here you'll find roses, hyacinths, pink parrot tulips, orchids and mixed bouquets all presented in her unique, chic style. You can buy Jane Packer's books, fragranced bath and body gifts, champagne and chocolates and gift vouchers here as well.

It was difficult to know where to put this website as these are really gifts for children but as just about everything in the kids’ section would make a great present and they have some lovely, well priced t-shirts, I thought I’d drop them in here. These are lovely, personalised t-shirts, aged from 3 – 14, with the Little Folk (Twirl the Little Ballerina, Fizzly the Little Fairy and Squirt the Little Elepant as just a few) plus the alphabet letter and name of your choice. There are also personalised bags, bedding, place settings and pictures.

Soon To Be Mum and New Mum are two of the categories here, where any mum-to-be or new mum can shop for everything from baby shower partywear, changing bags, bath soaks and feeding chairs. This is not the place to find your cut-price basics, but a well thought out collection of essential items brought together by other mums - in other words; those in the know.

If you’d like to give fruit as a gift but don’t really want to send the same as everyone else take a look here. Passionleaf create quite amazing, real fruit bouquets (which currently they can only deliver within the M25) using strawberries, melons, oranges and pineapples cut into pretty shapes and packed into wicker tubs. Just to look at this website will make your mouth water. You can also add balloons and chocolate strawberries to your gift. Call to order.

If you’re not quite sure what you’re doing when you reach this website read the ‘Shower my Baby Quick Tip Guide, which’ll help send you on your way, then you can choose from one of their complete (reasonably priced) packs, their pretty gifts such as personalised plates and keepsake tins and themed party stationery. There’s an ethnic baby range here as well.

Nars, Stila, Darphin, Laura Mercier, Eve Lom, Diptyque, Frederic Fekkai and Dr Sebagh are just some of the 60 plus brands offered on the website of this retailer, famous for bringing unusual and hard to find products to the UK (so you don't have to go to New York any more to buy your Frederic Fekkai shampoo: Shame).

They're also an excellent place for gifts as they offer a personalised message and gift wrapping service and next day delivery if you need it. It's a well designed and easy to get round website with very clear pictures.

There are so many wonderful gifts you can choose as a memento of a baby’s birth, most of which fit into a specific category such as flowers, hampers or silver. Here’s something totally different and very unusual which I personally think is a lovely idea: Each day since mid-summer’s day 2005, landscape photographer Gavan Goulder has taken stunning photographs of the Cornish coastline, so you can buy a beautifully framed photograph to mark the day of your (or a friend’s) baby’s birth. Take a look and see.

The White Company is one place I immediately turn to for gifts for friends who’ve just had a baby and for babies as well. It’s a collection that just seems to get better all the time with beautiful photography, reasonable prices and excellent service combining to make you want to buy much more than you set out to. Take a look at their supersoft towelling robes and pretty toiletry sets or luxurious cushions and throws and you definitely won’t go wrong. For babies there are cashmere shawls, satin edged polar fleece blankets and pretty gift sets in different prints plus lots of other ideas.

You can, of course, just walk into your local wine merchant and buy your bottle of bubbly then and there. Or you could do something a bit different and send a bottle of Veuve Clicquot in its very own ice bucket with your personalized card, or a boxed mini bottle of Laurent Perrier with a candle and bath essence. Alternatively you can arrange to have a personalized label created for a gift containing two or three bottles.