Do you love the idea of a baby keepsake box? Lifting the lid to sift through ultrasound images and hospital bracelets tugs at your heartstrings. But maybe you don't love the idea of a lot of “stuff” hanging around your house. It's hard to picture how this box of stuff fits into your well-curated home.
Baby Notebook offers a solution that gives you the best of both worlds. You can bottle up the important memories in a custom baby book instead of holding onto every sentimental object. By the end of this blog post, you'll see that you can let go of most of the baby stuff without losing out on sentimental items.
A Modern Minimalist Approach to Preserving Memories
There's a lot to love about what people typically include in a baby keepsake box. Often, they're used to preserve things like:
- Ultrasound photos
- Baby shower invitations
- A board book
- A lock of hair
- The outfit your baby wore home from the hospital
- A favorite blanket or stuffed animal
- Milestone photos
You can see how a baby keepsake box can get big fast. The reality is that you keep all of these itty bitty clothes for your kids for years, thinking they'll be able to use them for their newborns one day. But when that time comes, they'll use them for a month before their newborn grows out of them (and that's if they remember). The fact is that most of these items are more sentimental to us parents than they are to our kids who don't remember using these baby items. As your family grows, it gets harder to justify all the space that these baby items take up.
We've found that a lot of modern parents are interested in a more minimalist approach to memory keeping. They want to preserve what's important without cluttering up their homes. A custom baby book makes that possible. You can document what matters to your family without losing the peaceful, minimalist environment you've created.
If you're having a hard time, on the other hand, passing things on, you can photograph those items to include in your baby book. If it's baby clothes that you're having trouble parting with, include photos of your baby wearing those clothes and write about the sentiment behind them. The Baby Notebook app takes you through the process step by step. Then you can give that box of onesies to your expecting friend with more peace of mind.
Turning Your Baby Keepsake Box into a Custom Baby Book
You can turn your baby keepsake box items into a custom baby book with the Baby Notebook app. The app's weekly notifications include reminders, journal prompts, and photo ideas. You can preserve your baby's story with a book as unique as they are.
At Baby Notebook, we've seen families get really creative with what they photograph for their baby books. Here are a few examples of what parents include photos of so that they don't have to keep track of physical copies:
- Hospital bracelets
- Hand and footprints
- First artwork
- Adorable outfits
- Cards from loved ones
- Birth announcements.
Almost anything you can put in a baby keepsake box, you can add to your custom baby book. The key is to be intentional. If a family member made your baby's blanket, for example, you could take a photo of that person holding your little one wrapped in the blanket.
That intentionality is part of the beauty of a custom baby book. You take the time to sift through the hundreds of photos on your camera roll and pick out the ones that best represent this time for your family. They might be silly or sweet, but they'll be real.
Baby Notebook's Tailored Solution
Are you ready to create a custom baby book in lieu of a baby keepsake box? The Baby Notebook app enables you to create a one-of-a-kind book to preserve the most important memories from your baby's first year.
If this sounds like a lot of work, don't worry! We share tutorials and tips on how to document and include the baby things that tug at your heart. By spending a few minutes updating the app each week, you'll have a complete custom baby book by the end of your baby's first year.
Yes, that really is possible with Baby Notebook's built-in support! In fact, you can check out mom Erin Nti-Addae's Baby Notebook story to see how it all comes together.
And all that stuff that would clutter up your house? You can let it go knowing that you've preserved the memories beautifully.
Download the Baby Notebook app and start documenting your little one's story today!
Thank you to Sara Welch Photography for these sweet photos.