by Laura Falin posted in Pregnancy

As a mama-to-be, you get a few opportunities to be celebrated and showered with gifts. Mother's Day is coming up. There are usually baby showers. And since you're pregnant for nine months, give or take, chances are good you'll have a birthday sometime in there, too.
While sweet baby clothes and truckloads of diapers make wonderful, useful baby shower presents, here are a few ideas for expectant moms that never show up on registries, but which they would really, really enjoy.

1. TheraFlow Dual Foot Massager Roller
This thing has over 2,000 reviews on Amazon and people love it. Some reviewers say it helps with plantar fasciitis. Some say it even helped with leg cramps (ohhhh -- pregnant leg cramps are the worst). If anyone needs to treat their sore, achy feet, it's those of you carrying around a whole extra person every day. Also, it's a simple old-school wooden roller, so you can plop it down anywhere to use. Buy it: $18.95

2. Baby Laundry Detergent
Yes, you need lots of diapers when you have a newborn. But those diapers don't always hold everything in, if you know what I'm saying. Add to that spit-up, and the myriad astonishing ways a tiny, mostly immobile being can make a mess, and...you end up doing a lot of laundry. Baby clothes, grown-up clothes, everyone's clothes. No one ever gave me laundry soap at a baby shower, but looking back I would have appreciated it.
Buy It: $18.94/2 (plus there's a $2 off coupon!) 

3. The Cozy Bump...