I am a bit behind in sharing some of the photo books I have made in the past few years. Today I am finally getting around to sharing some of my kids' baby book photo books. These are photos and stories I want to remember from pregnancy through their first birthday. I include weekly pregnancy updates as well as weekly and monthly photos after baby is born. And of course, everything in between - baby showers, special trips, maternity photos, and newborn photos.
I made one of these for our oldest that I shared here. I used the same formatting but just slightly changed up the designs each time depending on what I was drawn to that year. My goal was to always finish this project before the next baby was born. I need to put it on my new year to do list to finish up our fourth's and then we will be complete!
Here is our daughter's story of you baby photo book:
We have always taken the finding out pregnancy test at night and then wake up the sibling(s) in the middle of the night to take a photo with them. It is a silly and sweet little tradition.
Our pregnancy announcement
I always love photographing and including pregnancy cravings!
Announcing we were having a girl!
More pregnancy memories - gifts from friends, packing my pregnancy pillows for an overnight stay, and one of many baths.
A fun pregnant family Halloween costume
Lots of bumpie photos - we had such good lighting in our Virginia home!
Announcing baby girl's name
Maternity photos in our backyard on a snowy day
We had moved from California to Virginia so my sweet family put together a baby shower in a box care package.
Some photos of the quilt I made and of the nursery
A babymoon day trip outing
Our girl was breech and we were able to have a successful version procedure and she flipped!
Weekly monitoring due to being breech
Pre-covid our parents came to Virginia to be there for the birth and to help out with our son. Strange to think how normal it is now that our next two births would not have any visitors come see us in the hospital.
Photos from our first days together
Our family newborn photos
Photos from a trip back home so our family could meet the baby
Weekly and monthly photos documenting her growth
Then the book ends with photos from her first birthday.
For the final pages I like to put a collage of the four milestone events - announcing pregnancy, gender reveal, maternity photo, and a birth photo.
The back cover
Our third was our pandemic baby, being born in 2021. We have a lot less pictures because their were less events. But it was still a special and memorable pregnancy and birth of our baby boy.
Finding out and waking up our sleepy kids!
Pregnancy announcement
Our very fun confetti gender reveal
Weekly pregnancy updates and watching the bump grow
Pandemic photos, crazy snow in the northwest, and arriving with blue balloons to let our kids know we were having a boy.
Announcing his name and a selfie with my pandemic friends that took me out to dinner to celebrate our baby boy.
Our family maternity photos
Photos of the nursery all set up
Masking and facetiming - signs of 2021
Sweet memories of those tired first days together
Family newborn photos
Most of our family came to us this time around to meet our boy. So instead of trip highlights we included the slow and special days we had at home that summer.
Weekly and monthly photos and updates
Then the book ends with his first birthday
Just like the other books, I end with a fun collage of major events - pregnancy announcement, gender reveal, maternity photo, and newborn photo.
Back cover
Your baby books are absolutely gorgeous! What a beautiful way to capture their birth year and beyond.
ReplyDeleteAw thank you so much! It is so good to get all those special photos in print!
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