TrendLife Baby

This fabulous Digital Thermometer Set from Philips Avent is so handy for testing baby’s temperature.

What can be a real chore is now simplified as this clever gadget also doubles as a baby soother. Now baby won’t have to suffer thermometers in their ears – in fact, our little tester grabbed the Freeflow soother and put it straight in her mouth!

Reassurance for mums and no tears for baby.

£25.99 

shop.philips.com

Sigg Aluminium has a great range of outdoor accessories with a special section dedicated to children and toddlers.

For when you're on the move, these Sigg flasks will really come in handy, and the little ones will love them too!

For girls try this gorgeous Tokyo Princess flask featuring a cute illustration of a Japanese doll.

Boys will love the Primeval bottle with its dinosaur skeleton design.

Tokyo Princess -£14.99

Primeval - £14.99

www.sigg-aluminium.co.uk

The Sing-Along Series from Amazing Baby is a fun collection of CDs for babies. Performed by music group FUNtastic they are full of lovely lullabies and rocking rhymes.

Clap and Sing! features lively songs combining well-known actions to traditional nursery ditties.

Jingle Belly Baby! is full of songs for the festive season, the book has bright, bold graphics and plenty of sparkle!

Lullaby Baby! is a great CD for bedtimes - it's full of classic soothing lullabies.

Party Time! does what it says on the tin! This 30 minute CD features lots of well loved party songs - perfect for birthday parties.

£9.99 each

www.amazingbaby.net

Village Green Products have a great selection of bath toys to keep babies happy at bath time, we particularly like the Water Flutes. These bright and colourful flutes give different sounds and tones, a really educational experience for little ones.

The Water Flutes can be tuned with water to create a variety of sounds, a simple innovative toys that will delight baby.

Includes easy-to-follow songs.

3 years

www.villagegreenproducts.co.uk

We love this gorgeous little Anne-Claire Petit Elephant from VUP Baby. It's so fun and cute, it will make the perfect pressie for little ones. 

Designed by Anne-Claire Petit, this beautiful crochet soft toy has a gorgeous rustic feel to it, and because its free from BPA, PVC and Phthalates it means this is perfectly safe for babies. 

It comes in three different designs: a stripey elephant, spotty and baby blue so you can choose the right elephant for your little bundle. 

£23.00

www.vupbaby.co.uk

If you're looking for Christmas gifts for the little ones, Toys of Essence is a great place to start. Full of high quality educational toys, there's something for everyone. We particularly love this Build a Wooden Robot toy. It's so cute and versatile too. Featuring interchangeable heads: happy, angry, surprised, and sad, this is a great toy for building social awareness and hand-eye communication.

The Build a Wooden Robot has won awards too: Top 10 Green Toy by AOL Parentdish and Best Toy for 2011 by Babbie. A great buy for a lucky little'un!

Pre-school, 3 and 4 years

£21.00

www.toysofessence.co.uk

These fab Clutching Toy Blooming Blooms from Timeless Toys make a great gift for babies. The bright and colourful design will delight the little ones while the rustling petals and rattle will help to improve fine motor skills.

The flower shape is cute, and the softness of this rattle and the flower face will provide friendly comfort. The Clutching Toy also features a mirror on one end so toddlers can see their own reflection.

A great gift for blooming babies!

£8.99

www.timelesstoysltd.co.uk

Out of many, many books that have been received at Trend Life – this Animals on the Farm book from oskar & ellen is by far the best.  It is a beautifully made fabric book with various interactive farm scenes; lift the flap to find the farmer, take the dog out of its kennel and find the bunny behind the bush are just a few of them.  This is superbly educational book for your baby to learn animals names and their babies, colours and opposites.

The book zips up and has its own handle so it looks like a little bag.

Although it certainly isn’t the cheapest, it is absolutely delightful and it gets a whopping 10/10 from Trend Life

£24

www.hopscotchlearning.com

The Little Nut Tree Toys website is jam-packed with toys and gifts for the little ones, whether it's a birthday gift you're looking for or a Christmas stocking filler.

The Lilliputiens Liz Soft Activity Ball is a great gift for baby girls. Resembling a cute little beetle, there are lots of different textures to stimulate baby. Little Liz also plays a great game of peek-a-boo, as you can push and pull the head out!

For baby boys try the Haba Crocodile Chris Animal Push Along toy. Its bright and bold colours will delight little ones, and what boy doesn't love a croc! In the unlikely event that they don't though, you can also get these push along toys in a horse, bear or cute cow. 

Lilliputiens Liz Soft Activity Ball - £13.99

Haba Crocodile Chris Animal Push Along - £12.50

www.littlenuttreetoys.co.uk

Children's publishers Ladybird are delighting babies and toddlers up and down the country with their interactive lift-the-flap books -  the Ladybird Baby Touch series.

The bright pictures are cute and educational and lifting the flaps reveal the friendly animal characters residing there – peepo! Each robust chunky flap has an easy-grip tab for the littlest of hands to grasp and lift, and a mirror surprise under the last flap to surprise and delight.

Rosie loves Peepo Baby. Its superb, interactive and the great textures and the mirror at the end is really good.  Its also much tougher than other flap books which Rosie has managed to break. RIP!

£5.99

ladybird.co.uk