Scrapbooking Baby's First Years

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Having a baby is one of the most amazing things in your life. Enjoy it before your baby grows up for you may hardly recognize it when your baby has grown up. From the moment he or she was born, every little thing happened to them or whatever they do is worth remembering. It is important to keep down the physical changes of them as well as the milestones they achieve such as first words, first steps, first tooth, first haircut and so. It seems impossible to remember all those wonderful moments. Fortunately, you can record and preserve every precious story in a baby scrapbook.

Pregnancy
Pregnancy scrapbooks are memorable albums for the baby and the entire family. You can start your pregnancy scrapbook with a picture of you when you first found out that you were pregnant. Update your photos regularly to observe how your body is changing. Be sure to get some side photos of the growing belly in order to have a better visual inspection. Take photos of the hospital and the doctor who delivered your baby. At the end of your pregnancy scrapbook, write down what your feelings were when you saw him or her for the first time. A pregnancy scrapbook can be a treasured keepsake for you and your child to share.

Lullaby
One unique idea of baby scrapbook theme is lullaby. Babies tend to sleep a lot and you can take photo of their various gesture of sleeping to record their lovely and innocent look. Moms always can't help singing lullabies that you learned from your mother to pat the baby to sleep. Then why not make a scrapbook of the photos. Be sure to include the lyrics of the songs you sing to your children and write about your thoughts and feelings. You can even continue to write this scrapbook as your child gets older. With older child you can include the songs they like to sing.

Baby's Firsts
One idea for a baby scrapbook theme is baby's firsts. In this scrapbook you can record milestones for your baby. This scrapbook will be unique for each child. Include sentimental items in your book such as first haircut page, Christmas or birthday cards for the first birthday and lots and lots of pictures for the first steps etc. Keep record of funny words or pronunciation of your child when they first begin to talk in journaling spaces on the pages. Baby scrapbooks don't have to be traditional, you can come up with any type of theme you want for your scrapbook pages. Make the book pretty and interesting to look at for future browse.

Journaling
You can keep a diary for your baby to help him or her to record the first years. The content of the journaling here is all up to you. What you want to remember or what you want to share with the recipient of the scrapbook. If you are keeping the scrapbook for yourself you may want to remember the basics but also any funny things the baby does. If the album is for someone else you can write down some milestones of the baby or tell the story behind a particular photo. If you are using the photos to tell a story, then the amount of journal can be small. You can summarize the story or describe it in detail according to your need as well as the visual effect of the scrapbook.