who has made/ is making a scrapbook for bubs?

[divershona]

if you have what kind of things are you going to put in it, im getting kinda stuck for ideas now lol

i'm putting in like a timeline kinda thing to show how bubs is growing (compared to fruit lol its rather amusing) and like how they are changing or developing each month. i've done a page about the first scan and i'll probably do one for the second scan that i had too.

i'm going to do a page about me and my close family (sister's mum and dad) with stuff like fave food, film, book, some hobbies and a little bit about them and then another page or two with other family members etc and pics of them and things.

im going to do a page or 2 (depends how many pics i end up collecting) with my growing bump and probably add in something about cravings somewhere

im debating putting in the birthstory once i've had him/her but im not too sure yet, have to decide when they get here and see if i can actually be bothered to write one hehe

what else did you girls do?

 

[aob1013]

Me

I've basically done a timeline from the moment i found out i was pregnant to now. All his scan pictures are there etc.

At the beginning i also wrote how me and OH met etc xx

 

[birdiex]

I'm just ducking in to this thread here to share a little on scrapbooking! I'm in the 2WW after a little pill accident, so I was looking round these threads and saw this and I thought ooooh scrapbooking haha! I love doing that sort of thing, i've got a photo album of me and OH which I looove adding to!

It might be a nice idea to have a page where you found out their gender, cut out bits of coloured paper in shapes, stickers, sparkles and glitter and butterflies for girls and maybe a muddy puddle and football colourful design for a boy? Maybe write down how you felt, name ideas, anything you want them to know. Maybe take a bump picture once a month to document how you're changing, do a page about the month and how you and OH feel? Maybe leave a page once a month for OH to do himself, that'd be really lovely! And then when they're born, maybe a little snip of their hair (if they've got any), keep the umbilical cord bit? And maybe get them a pair of booties and a hat to wear when they're born, and when they grow out of them stick them into the book?

Just a few little ideas, thought it might help! You could also do a page for when they first moved, first scan, first preggo test at the start and how you felt to be a teen mummy-to-be? Hope you don't mind me ducking in to this thread, I hope my ideas help!

 

[aob1013]

I would never say anything about being a teen mother, it's completely not relevant, i'm a Mum to be like everyone else, kwim? Please don't be offended, i really don't mean it to come across that way i really don't xxx

 

[Sophiiie]

Since I found out I was pregnant I've been taking a picture of the bump each week, sticking it on to a piece of card and then writing things like how I felt, if I felt anything new, any cravings I had, what the weather was like (random I know lol) and I've just started to put the actual scrapbook together with lots of photos and writing all the history type things like how me & OH met, where we were born, names of grandparents etc.

I absolutely love it lol x

 

[birdiex]

I would never say anything about being a teen mother, it's completely not relevant, i'm a Mum to be like everyone else, kwim? Please don't be offended, i really don't mean it to come across that way i really don't xxx

I'm not offended, I do understand very much that it's not age that makes the mother! Good luck with your scrapbooking hun, hope some of my other ideas were useful!

 

[aob1013]

They were, thank you xxxx

 

[divershona]

ooooooo thanks girlies, some great ideas there, just need to get my butt into gear and go to tesco lol need some glue hahaha

 

[pinkneon]

Well I am keeping a pregnancy journal, and am also going to make a baby book - rather than buy one, so it'll be more like a scrapbook. Am then going to add to it each year as the baby grows older so they will have a nice presnt when they are 18!

 

[totallyashley]

I am in the process of doing one. Mine is a bit more like a pregnancy diary though. I have been putting little updates in about what happened that day and how I felt. I have also bee talking about how much progress I have made in doing the nursery and buying things. Been putting in a few pictures of what I have brought too. I will put the birth story in too. I want this to be a diary about my pregnancy so one day when she is older she will be able to appreicate it. I doubt she will when she is younger. I also hope it will help her to understand what I went through with her when she is one day pregnant. It is a lot more detailed than just saying oh I had BH a lot.

 

[Bride2Be]

A woman I know had a really good idea for something to put in my baby book: she put the first words she said after the baby was born. I thought it was a sweet idea at least.

I'm putting a picture of my positive pregnancy tests, my ultrasounds, the first words I said after he was born, and my bump pictures I'm doing a pregnancy diary too.

 

[AnnabelsMummy]

i have a similar thing ..
and to earlier posts, i don't see why it would be wrong about being a teen-mummy-to-be?
i mean we are teen-mummies, and no it doesn't make us any better or any worse than older mummies, but then again a mummy who's alot older than normal mummies, could put what it's like to be an older mummy - you'll have different experiences because of your age - that's a fact... it doesn't have to be negative.. if my mum had me really young, i'd love to know how she felt, and how she coped with it and stuff..
xxxx