Keeping a Baby Book for Your Child

Chronicling Children's Lives With Keepsakes, Photos, Milestones

© Diane Laney Fitzpatrick

Personalized Baby Book, Diane Laney Fitzpatrick

You don't have to be a scrapbooking expert to keep a creative book of memories for each of your children.

With the rise in popularity of scrapbooking, the traditional baby book has gone the way of diaper pins and bottle boilers - a lot of young parents just don’t use them anymore.

But the fill-in-the-blanks type chronicling of your child’s early years is still a great way to keep memories recorded.

You can make your own custom-made baby book filled with milestones, photographs and keepsakes, by combining scrapbooking techniques with old fashioned baby book memories.

Decide on the Format

Take a look at a baby book in a store or one that belongs to a friend. What pages would you want to include in your child’s baby book and what pages would you leave blank? Perhaps you want a page that includes your baby’s footprint in the hospital and his wrist bracelet, but you don’t want a page on showers that were held for you. Use a store-bought baby book to get ideas for your custom-made baby book.

Make your Pages

If you haven’t been in the scrapbooking aisles of a craft store, you’re in for a treat. If you're not the crafty type, don't let it intimidate you. You don’t have to be a Martha Stewart to find something fun and easy in that department. You’ll also find the best papers, glue and other supplies perfect for your baby book.

First choose a scrapbook cover that you can decorate and personalize for your child. Be sure it can handle all the pages you want to include. Buy blank pages and then pick out some creative papers to serve as backgrounds for each page.

Type and print out sheets for different milestones, including graphics and borders and fill in the rest with your child’s information.

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