Any ideas for a gift for newborn who will have everything?

Child not cild!

Make a nappy cake! They are great fun to make (plenty of tutorials on YouTube), are very practical and look spectacular. You can add gender specific ribbon once the baby is born or go for a neutral colour of corse

Check out this lady on Etsy. She does beautiful birth/christening embroidered keepsakes. Also does amazing things with children's own drawings. Can't wait until my grandson can produce something we can have. She is based in Stockport but is on Etsy and Facebook. I'd highly recommend her.
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SewUniqueArtwork?ref=shop_sugg&order=price_asc

I would go with Sophie the Giraffe or Ewan the dream sheep. Another suggestion is a nightlight

I can't imagine anyone buying for a 'friend's son's child'.

The day my granddaughter was born I took a photo of the sunrise, which luckily was beautiful, and had it put onto canvas with the words.... the first sunrise of your life...name... it went down very well and really meant something to them and hopefully her in the future

Glosgran could you knit a small blanket in soft rainbow colours not to big ,size of a pillowcase,
Very useful and very personal

Why not Gabriella ?

I made all four of my grandkids pretty little white duvet covers with the alphabet on, all hand embroidered. Each letter had an animal or little person draped around or on it.
They were all embroidered differently, for instance the letters were blue or pink or yellow or green. They were all so beautiful and I don't know what happened to them in the end.
I made a little ruffle around the sides and trimmed it with a satin ribbon to match the main colour of the letters. I estimate several hundred hours of work went into each.

Fisher Price seahorse... it has a soft light on its tummy and plays lovely soft soothing music with a background of sounds of the sea which made it very special...all the babies I have bought it for absolutely loved it, and parents said it was wonderful at soothing them to sleep.. our own Grandaughter only stopped using hers a couple of years ago when she was 7..and it still makes an appearance now and again. Not sure if you can still get it..maybe online. I think there are similar toys out there but maybe not with such lovely soothing sea sounds. Good luck whatever you choose.
Just an added thought.. when our children were born years ago my parents bought us a good supply of disposable nappies...not very exciting but oh so useful and we were so grateful because it saved us quite a bit of money.?

A colourful book of nursery rhymes would be my choice. Alternatively, a beautifully illustrated edition of Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses' would, I think, still appeal to a child of the 21st Century.

annodomini
I have the original version of that book gifted to me by a friend on my 5th birthday.

Glosgran.. this is the seahorses.. sorry link was broken, but available at Argos. ?

I have seen disposable nappies made into presentation packs in shapes like a swan, teddy etc. You can never have too many nappies but don't get the first size.

Intrigued by Ewan the Dream Sheep suggested by Beau, I googled it. There were a few sites but I looked on YouTube. Shows what it's about and how it works. If it works it looks great.

There is a lovely book entitled ‘Welcome to th World’. It is only about £8 - £10 but a lovely new baby gift. Not on the Highstreet also do some lovely baby bits some are personalised. Good luck

gift voucher .then the parents can buy what they need.

I don't know if anyone else has suggested this but it's possible to buy and plant a tree through several agencies in the UK.
As the tree grows so does the child and can go visit it. I believe you can even have a commemorative plaque.

This is just one place, there are several others:

treesforlife.org.uk/

Another vote for Ewan the Dream Sheep. It's so soothing it used to send exhausted Mum and Dad to sleep as well as new GC! But I love Menopaws's sunrise picture idea.

The Royal Mint do some nice gifts for new babies. Something that may increase in value over the years. Im a sucker for coin collections personally!

I'm currently waiting on the birth of my grandchild and these are some wonderful ideas for me to buy all something

I very often give books - We're Going on a Bear Hunt is one of my favourites. The classics, though lovely, and often beautifully illustrated are a bit heavy for younger children, but they are nice to keep for the future. Anyone familiar with The Elephant and the Bad Baby?

I’ve bought an unusual moneybox when I was in the same situation. ?

endorse the giraffe. New granddaughter loves it, upside down and chewing the feet. Easy for little hands to manipulate.