The 10 Best Subscription Boxes for Babies in 2023 – Readers’ Choice Awards

1. Panda Crate

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About the Box:

KiwiCo was voted as the best subscription box for kids in the 2023 readers’ choice awards and, not surprisingly, its baby subscription box Panda Crate always ranks highly among the best baby subscription boxes each year. Panda Crate is designed for children ages 0-36 months and helps babies and toddlers learn through playing, exploring, and interacting with their parents and other family members.

Panda Crate offers the following baby subscription boxes that are based on your child's age and developmental stage, delivered on a bi-monthly basis:

• Bond with Me, 0-2 months - Includes products like Tummy Time Mirror, Swaddle Blanket, Milestone Pillow, and Cards
• Sense with Me, 3-6 months - Includes products like Crinkle Tag Toy, Soft Rattle Blocks, Teething Ring
• Explore with Me, 7-12 months - Includes products like Coin Box Puzzle, Bead Maze, Poppy's Day Out
• Count with Me, 13-18 months - Includes products like Stacking Cups, Shape Puzzles, Counting Cards
• Solve with Me, 19-24 months - Includes products like Peg Puzzle, Squishy Shapes, Lacing Beads

Each Panda Crate subscription box comes with activity cards, at-home activity suggestions, and KiwiCo’s Wonder Magazine, which is a research-based publication focused on early parenthood, to provide parents with the most effective strategies and helpful tips to promote healthy childhood development.

To date, KiwiCo now offers Pana Crate Plus as well which includes 10–12 developmental skills per crate (vs. 6-10 in the standard subscription) along with 1–2 grow-with-me Plus products and 1–2 additional play guides. Each Panda Crate Plus box is valued at $150+.

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Shipping: Ships to the U.S. for free, international shipping starts at $5.95 per month.

2. Hello Bello

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About the Box:

Hello Bello is Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard’s baby and personal care line that offers baby subscription boxes for diaper and wipes bundles, training pants, vitamins, and more. They offer one of the most affordable diaper subscriptions available today and each bundle comes with adorable prints and fun, festive designs.

Your bundle can contain up to 7 packs of diapers in your chosen size (NB-6) and pattern, and you can also order up to 4 packs of wipes as well. When selecting your diapers, you’ll be able to pick up to 7 different designs from among ~25+ choices and all diapers are ultra-soft and hypoallergenic.

Unlike other diaper subscriptions, you can select up to 2 different sizes if you're ordering for more than one child and will receive 15% off of add-on items like supplements and skincare. Finally, you'll also receive a special freebie in your first order and randomly throughout the year.

Hello Bello allows you to set your delivery for every 3, 4, or 5 weeks and you can edit what’s in your bundle until 24 hours before it ships, so busy parents never have to worry about running out of supplies.

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Shipping: Ships to the contiguous U.S. and APO/FPO addresses (free for orders $75+, $4.99 for orders between $35 & $74.99, and $9.99 for orders under $35), Alaska and Hawaii ($25), and Canada ($11.99).

3. Bookroo

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About the Box:

Bookroo is an award-winning book club that offers a monthly book subscription for kids ages 0-12. Its Board Book Club is just for babies and toddlers ages 0-3, and each board book box comes with three board books (around 8-14 pages each) along with an insert that highlights the books and offers exclusive details (like insights from authors and illustrators).

A distinct feature of Bookroo is that it favors sending hidden gems, rather than the classics that fill most children's libraries' shelves. Here are some titles you may come across if you subscribe to Bookroo for your baby:

• Mrs. Peanuckle's Fruit Alphabet
• Animal Numbers
• Jane Foster's ABC
• 1-2-3, You Love Me

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Shipping: Shipping is $4.99 per box to anywhere within the United States (including APO/DPO).

4. Little Spoon

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About the Box: 

Little Spoon offers certified organic baby food blends that are available in 6 different stages (depending on your child's age) that are designed to help your baby transition from single-ingredient purees to multi-ingredient blends. All meals are Clean Label Project verified and are free of added sugars, preservatives, and additives.

Little Spoon offers baby food subscription plans for 1-3 meals per day (14, 28, or 42 blends per delivery) that are shipped every 2 weeks. Baby Blends are available in both traditional flavors, such as apple, pear, and zucchini, as well as in seasonal and specialty blends including pumpkin spice, piña colada, and pitaya pineapple spinach banana coconut oil.

Have a toddler in your house too? Little Spoon also offers Biteables, Plates, and Smoothies for kids ages 1+.

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Shipping: Ships for $6 per box to the contiguous United States.

5. Baby And Sunshine

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About the Box:

Are you looking for a baby subscription box that also offers something for moms? Look no further than Baby and Sunshine!

Baby and Sunshine's subscription box comes with a mixture of items that are designed for both mom and baby, such as footed onesies, soft fabrics and blankets, pregnancy leggings, and nursing bras. You can also expect to find other products like handmade lotion, baby bowls and spoons, pacifiers, and more.

Back in November 2021, I reached out to Baby and Sunshine to obtain details on their sourcing for fabrics. This is the response I received:

"Some of the vendors we work with do have items with certifications such as GOTS, SGS, ASTM, or WRAP. Other partner vendors have fabrics that have been tracked through the production chain to prevent commingling but have not gone through the process of obtaining certifications...not all items will be organic cotton, some are cashmere, or a mix of cotton and spandex, bamboo viscose and spandex, along with other fabrics.”

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Shipping: Free shipping to the U.S.

6. UpChoose

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About the Box: Wish you could go fully organic for your baby's clothing, but are worried about the cost? Don't worry, UpChoose offers a rental service for organic baby clothing.

UpChoose realizes that full sets of organic clothing can rack up quite the bill as your baby continues to grow, so they decided to make it possible for more families to go organic.

You can select from the following subscription options:

• The Mini - 12 items (5 bodysuits, 5 one-pieces, and 2 pairs of pants) that are available to rent for $29 per month pre-loved, or $59 new.
• The Standard - 22 items (8 bodysuits, 8 one-pieces, 2 pairs of pants, 1 sweater/top, 3 bibs) that are available to rent for $49 per month pre-loved, or $99 new.
• The Full Set - 56 items (10 bodysuits, 10 one-pieces, 2 pairs of pants, 5 bibs, plus a mix of towels, toys, hats, and more ) that are available to rent from $89 per month pre-loved, or $139 new.

UpChoose sources its clothing from top organic brands including Under the Nile, Kate Quinn, Finn and Emma, L'ovedbaby, Colored Organics, and Burt's Bees Baby. Customers can further customize their baby clothes subscription by selecting their preferred styles and colors before purchasing.

And, if you become too attached to a certain outfit (or two) you can keep it rather than return it with the rest of the set. If you have rented a set for at least three months, you can keep up to two items for a flat fee of $10 per item for a bodysuit, pants, hat, or toy, or $15 per item for a one-piece, towel, or blanket. If you've rented your set for less than three months, the costs go up to $20 and $30 respectively. Any additional item kept will be charged based on its retail price.

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Shipping: Ships to the U.S. for free both ways.

7. Honest

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About the Box:

Honest is a natural baby and beauty brand founded by Jessica Alba that offers a bundle subscription for its sustainable, fragrance-free, and super-absorbent diapers and plant-based wipes. Each diaper and wipe bundle comes with 7 packs of diapers (sizes N-6) and 4 packs of plant-based baby wipes (72 wipes per pack).

You can select up to 7 different patterns for diapers (including white) and choose from 5 classic wipes with cute box designs or 2 types of nourishing and hydrating wipes. Additionally, you'll receive 15% off on extras like diaper rash cream or organic body oil and receive a free gift with every third purchase.

In addition to its diaper and wipes bundle subscription, Honest also offers single-item subscriptions for your favorite products. You'll save 5% on each item you subscribe to and Honest offers free shipping if your order exceeds $50.

Want to save even more? Honest now offers a Build Your Own Bundle where you can take your pick of up to 3 premium items per bundle from a select list of products for mom and baby and save an average of 30% off per shipment.

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Shipping: Ships to the U.S., Canada, and APO/FPO addresses. Free shipping on any order over $50 shipped within the contiguous US.

8. Lovevery

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About the Box:

If you’re looking to stock up on Montessori-style toys that foster educational play, Lovevery is worth a look. Lovevery's play kits come with toys that are built to last and are made with high-quality materials such as sustainably harvested wood, organic cotton, non-toxic paint, and natural rubber.

Baby Play Kits are developmental staged-based and are designed to help younger children build color recognition, visual exploration, and fine motor skills. The following six kits are available for babies ages 0-12 months and are delivered every 2 months:

• The Looker Play Kit, Weeks 0-12 - This Play Kit helps babies build new brain connections with high-contrast images and black-and-white sensory mittens.
• The Charmer Play Kit, Months 3-4 - This Play Kit lets your baby explore with their mouth, eyes, and hands as their personality emerges and their social awareness grows.
• The Senser Play Kit, Months 5-6 - This Play Kit helps your baby investigate the world around them while working on getting them closer to what looks and sounds exciting to them.
• The Inspector Play Kit, Months 7-8 - This Play Kit makes the most of your baby's natural curiosity about how things work with opportunities to explore texture, practice nesting, and stacking, and learn about object permanence.
• The Explorer Play Kit, Months 9-10 - This Play Kit is designed to help babies experiment with gravity, practice balance, and begin coordinating both sides of their body.
• The Thinker Play Kit, Months 11-12 - This Play Kit encourages your baby to define and organize information while engaging their budding imagination.

Lovevery also offers 12 different toddler subscription boxes for children ages 1-4 as well.

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Shipping: Free shipping on all Play Kits in the contiguous U.S. & Canada.

9. Coterie

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About the Box:

Coterie’s diaper subscription provides customers with a monthly supply of diapers for sizes NB-06, and its diapers are hypoallergenic, dermatologist tested and recommended, and free of harsh chemicals. What sets Coterie apart from competing brands is its wicking system and superior absorbency - Coterie’s diapers have 70% more liquid capacity, 4x faster absorbency, and 3x drying power compared to leading brands and they’re also the only diaper brand that has their safety report available online.

Diapers are delivered every 4 weeks and there are 6 packs included with each box. The number of diapers included in the bundle ranges from 108 to 198, depending on the size of your baby (more diapers for younger kids).

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Shipping: Ships to all 50 states, but is unable to ship to P.O. Boxes, APO, and FPO addresses. Free standard shipping for orders over $49 in the contiguous U.S. Orders under $49 in the contiguous U.S. incur a $7.50 shipping fee and Trial Pack orders incur a $5.00 shipping fee. Only express shipping is available for Alaska and Hawaii for $25.

10. Surprisly

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About the Box:

Surprisly offers exactly what you think it would - monthly surprises of clothing that are stylish and downright adorable. Since each box's items are chosen at random, customers are only required to provide details on the birthday or due date of their baby, their desired clothing type, and the clothing size they currently need.

Each monthly subscription box includes three outfits total - one for playtime, one for the day out, and one for nighttime. Some outfits might include tunic and leggings, coveralls, pajamas, top and pants, or a dress and jumper. Suprisly features a wide range of stylish brands such as Tuesday June, Silkberry Baby, Parade, Oliver & Rain, Little Green Radicals, Rabbit Skip Road, and more.

I reached out to the brand in November 2021 to obtain additional details on how they source their clothing. This is the response I received:

"We source our clothing that are made from organic cotton fabrics from global brands. Many of the brands we carry are GOTS certified.”

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Shipping: Shipping is free for all shipments within the United States.