Oh Baby! Creating the Perfect Baby Memory Book

Looking for a unique way to capture all the special moments from baby's first years? As a first-time parent, I’m eager to record all the details of baby’s days, so I decided to make a template for a baby book to document the big moments. With a template, I can fill in activities or events as they occur (and it lets me catch up more easily if I get busy – imagine that! – and fall behind).
- Details from your pregnancy months: names you considered, how you felt during pregnancy, facts about mom and dad, how the nursery was decorated and who helped put it together, guests and gifts at showers and more
- Details from baby's birthday: was he/she early or late, height, weight, eye color, hair color, special visitors, names of the doctors/nurses/midwife, mom’s and dad's thoughts and feelings, baby’s hand and foot prints
- Details about the world that baby was welcomed into: who was President, cost of gasoline and other items, popular music and television shows, famous people, trends
- Details about baby's milestones: smiling, laughing, rolling over, sitting, crawling standing, walking, teething, words. You can even paste in envelopes for locks of hair from baby's first hair cut and first lost tooth (assuming that ol’ Tooth Fairy doesn't keep it!)
- Details about baby's favorites: favorite foods, favorite activities, favorite songs, favorite animals
- Details about baby's first holidays: what did baby wear, eat, play with, what friends and family members attended
My book will conclude with baby's first birthday and pictures from the party, but you could continue to add to the book each year with photos from birthday parties and, eventually, school photos.
With that in mind, I got to work designing my templates in Microsoft Word®. I chose a zoo animal theme since our nursery is decorated in giraffes – but the options for themes are endless!
Once the template was perfect for us, I printed the pages on a nice, thick paper. You can use FedEx Office® Print Online to print yours from home (what new mom has time to run out to the store!) and a bonus is that FedEx Office Print Online will now store your documents “in the cloud.” This means you can give this baby book template as a gift for friends, or print it again should you have another bundle of joy – no need to find and re-upload the file every time.
I had my journal coil bound at my local FedEx Office® – it was both easy and cost-effective, but the real reason behind it is so that I can flip the pages over to display it like a calendar (I used a landscape orientation for my book).
Hope you’ll give this idea a try – and let us know if you had any other great ideas for template design!
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