Does anyone do baby memory books anymore?

[JJeannette]

It's been way too many years since I thought about baby books, but I have a couple of young family friends who are expecting this summer. While searching for ideas for baby gifts, it occurred to me that baby books might be a nice gift. Then I wondered if anyone even uses them anymore--everyone's lives are so busy, would they just be stuck away and forgotten? Do young parents do that sort of thing digitally now?

[Blissful_in_TX]

I do (and just this morning after a bizarre dream I was thinking that I needed to scan in DS's baby book :D , how weird). However I was really picky in finding a baby book and got it early on, so it wouldn't have been an ideal present for me, if that makes sense.

[Molli526]

Yes. I have one for each of our boys. I am SO not into scrapbooking etc. so this is perfect for me.

[misskitty100]

Yes, I do! I also think a baby's first year and second year calendars would make nice gifts.

Last year I had to fill out a bunch health info on my son (for instance, when did he first make a raspberry sound etc) and boy was I glad I had written this stuff down for future reference.

[Tally]

Yes, I do! I also think a baby's first year and second year calendars would make nice gifts.

Last year I had to fill out a bunch health info on my son (for instance, when did he first make a raspberry sound etc) and boy was I glad I had written this stuff down for future reference.

A first calendar is a great gift. We really used ours quite a bit and documented things like who babysitted our DS, vacations, first foods, birthday parties attended, and because we live in Florida, hurricanes we endured.

[ljt2r]

Slightly different view here--make sure you know your recipient. In other words, yes it would be a very thoughtful gift for the kind of person who would do it, but honestly I really dislike gifts that make me do work--does that make sense? I would sit and stare at the books and feel guilty and wonder if the giver was going to notice I had not used them. And yes, we do everything digitally--ours girls have websites with their names as domain names reserved for them for life (or as long as the current internet holds up :rolleyes:. You sound like a very thoughtful person and it is wonderful you are even thinking about a gift, but as long as you are asking, I would not go with baby first year books.

One great alternative, in my opinion, is a baby's photograph album, where pics of family and friends can be inserted for the baby to look at. We asked for one for our daughter from my in-laws and she LOVES it.

Laura

[lbd]

I definitely keep track of stuff (or try to!) in my pregnancy journal and a baby's first year journal. However, I was very picky about what I wanted and actually bought and returned several before deciding on the one I kept and now use. It's a great idea but would have been miraculous if someone had picked one that actually had and didn't have everything I wanted.

[JanetJ]

I have a memory book for DD and have kept it up, though I do need to print out pictures and add them in. Like others, I was pretty picky about the one I wanted and looked through many before making a decision.

[JJeannette]

Thank all of you for your replies. This is just the kind of response I was looking for! Since both sets of parents went "above and beyond" to get these babies, I would think they will want to document everything :).

And, thank you for the calendar suggestion--I hadn't thought about something like that even being separate from a baby book.