Personalized baby books tug at your heartstrings in a different way than traditional fill-in-the-blank baby books. It's like the difference between a friend gifting you a cute swaddle from Target and sewing one by hand and embroidering your baby's name in the corner. One is cute. The other is a personalized heirloom. Baby Notebook's app gives you an incomparable level of flexibility in creating a baby book tailored to your family's journey.
The Limits of Traditional Baby Books
Traditional baby books come with limits on customization. Unlike personalized baby books, you typically can't put your child's name or photo on the cover. Most baby books include spaces for milestones. If prompts don't resonate with you, though, you may find yourself with awkward gaps in your book.
Sometimes, too, traditional baby books are designed with a narrow idea of what a family can look like. You deserve a baby book that honors your unique journey to growing your family. Whether you're adopting or are part of the LGBTQ+ community, you'll need flexibility in customizing your baby book. We'll dive into all the ways we designed Baby Notebook to be flexible enough for every family below. (You can learn more about baby book ideas specifically for adoptive and LGBTQ+ families in this blog post.)
3 Simple, Meaningful Ways to Personalize a Baby Book
Personalized baby books are a different experience to create as much as they are to read. You get so much room for creativity. Baby Notebook's customization options allow you to really honor your family's unique story. Your child will feel all the more loved when they flip through the book in childhood and even adulthood. Here are some great ways to personalize your baby book.
1. Add quote pages.
Quote pages are a great way to incorporate all the big feelings that come with parenthood. It's a lot of fun to collect the ones that speak to your experiences, hopes, and dreams for your little one. Want some inspiration? We created a whole Pinterest board of ideas! Find the perfect quote for your baby book.
2. Choose a fun title.
Your baby's story deserves a title as special as they are. At the very least, putting their name on the cover can be a nice touch. We've got helpful tips for creating a custom title along with a list of ideas in this blog post.
3. Include the story leading up to their birth.
Adoptive families and birth families experience a lot on their way to their little one. Your child will appreciate learning about it as the opening chapter to their baby book. If you're pregnant, you can use Baby Notebook as a combination pregnancy journal and baby book. Learn how in this blog post. As an adoptive parent, you can replace the pregnancy pages with photos and text pages where you can tell your adoption story.
The Best App for Personalized Baby Books
Baby Notebook was designed for creating personalized baby books. It includes features that make it customizable and flexible enough for any family to use.
One of our favorite Baby Notebook features is simple but hard to find. You can showcase your baby on the cover. So few traditional baby books or popular memory book apps allow you to do that. It really centers your child's unique story from the start.
Here are some other features that make Baby Notebook so highly personalized:
- Edit titles
- Choose writing prompts
- Replace pages
- Hide pages
- Add pages
- Rearrange pages
You might see this list of customization features and think that creating the book itself is complicated. The Baby Notebook app is very intuitive. The book is already formatted, no designing on your part is needed. You can even set up weekly notifications. In just a few minutes a week, you can upload all of your pictures and responses to prompts. By your child's first birthday, your baby book will be complete.
The ease of completing Baby Notebook is one of the things people love best about it. How many friends do you have whose traditional baby books are still lying around incomplete? One app user described her experience this way:
“[The] biggest thing I love is that with it being custom made and the pictures being printed right on the pages, keeps everything clean and simple vs having a book where you have to tape or glue pics on the page - and overtime losing or having the pictures fade. The prompts are great too throughout the book and if you don't know a title you can change it our create your own. I don't think anyone would be disappointed in getting this app or purchasing the book.”
- Amanda
On top of all these helpful features, Baby Notebook has a modern, minimalist aesthetic. Its colors and fonts are timeless. Your book really will be beautiful enough to live on your coffee table.
Download the Baby Notebook app and start your personalized baby book today.
Thank you to Sara Welch Photography for these beautiful photos of Leila's baby book.