Baby Memory Book

This will help you to create a baby memory book that is a delightful type of record for many reasons.

Most importantly, the child itself will not remember anything about being a baby. So it's not only helpful for parents to remember what happened to their child in infancy, but that child (when they are an adult) can also use the baby memory book to look back and put the start of their life in some sort of perspective.

That means the record is of value to parents and to their children.

What To Include in a Baby Memory Book

Some things to include are obvious, and could include any or all of the following:

• Scan pictures.
• Birth cirtificate.
• Baby pictures.
• Lock of hair.
• Baby footprint or palm print.
• Parents pictures.
• Grandparents pictures.
• Pictures of brothers or sisters.

Some things are not so obvious, but they help put the birth (and subsequent life) into perspective:

• Newspaper articles of major world events happening on that day or in that week.
• Newspaper articles of major local events happening on that day or in that week.
• Newspaper or magazine product adverts (Many of the products will not be around or will have had their names changed by the time they are adults
• Newspaper or magazine articles about celebrities of the day. Politicians, film stars, TV stars, music stars, sports stars.
• Local Newspaper articles about your local sports team

Creating a Baby Memory Book

Once you have collected the above items together, you can create your baby memory book in many ways. Some people may prefer to use a scrap book, and to put larger items such as 'first shoes' into a box. Our suggestion would be to use a ring binder and individual pages of paper that you can glue items on to, and to use a book shaped box file for larger articles.

Most newspapers these days have an online publication, so it's quite easy to print off the computer page containing the articles you decide to keep, but even if you decide to keep the actual newspaper or magazine article itself, most copiers will reduce these down to the size of your paper, so that they can be glued to your piece of paper and kept in the folder.

If you have started here, don't forget that this is the start, not the end! Children grow up, and want to know about what the world was like when they were born. They want to know about you! How did their parents meet, what attracted them to one another. Did they decide to have children or did it just happen! Did you have plenty of money to buy them toys and clothers, or did you struggle. If you struggled, how did you cope?

Keeping everything in a loose leaf binder will allow you to add things easily and you then have the choice of creating a baby memory book in its own dedicated folder, or of adding to that same folder at a later date as the child grows up. It also allows you to add an index or index files to the folder.