In the late 2000s I kept a personal mom blog called Nest Bliss. I reviewed books, wrote about the house and the girls, and was even in the Wall Street Journal. These posts are from then: light, young, a mom in her late twenties. I have edited them to stand on their own.
So tonight I have been working on my pregnancy journal from Ava - ha! funny right?
I have to finish it before I can move on to her baby book. Surprisingly, I actually wrote quite a bit in it and then I typed a lot of things in emails to friends and family that I printed and I saved a bunch of scraps and threw it all into a big pretty box and that was it.
Now I am on a mission to get it all sorted out and it is actually really fun, I saved a bunch of stuff - funny lists, magazine clippings, etc. The one thing I wish I recorded and thought I had but I guess not was my weight gain and loss each appointment - weird right?
I could fill the entire book with clippings of nursery room ideas though! My book was very good and colorful and the prompts were pretty good, even though I still stapled and glued tons of my own stuff over most of the pages.
I had the 'Maternity Record Book' by PepperPo t.
All I have left to do is to print some pictures and more emails and use my handy glue dots to stick them in! Not bad for something I started in Nov. 2007 ;) I would add that I had The Pregnancy Journal: A Day-to-Day Guide to a Healthy and Happy Pregnancy
- and I really didn't like it. It was a lot more a book about being pregnant with some journal prompts in it than a big scrapbook that will make a nice keepsake in the end for the child as an adult.
So that is something to consider when shopping for this item - do you want something more medical or something more truly journal like - or both maybe! I am not even going to ask if my friends (who are mostly reading this) had a journal or which one was their favorite because I all know you think I am crazy and of course you didn't!
But if you are a person browsing the web or a casual reader and you like me have a big fat pregnancy journal that you loved or didn't love will you please share which one and why? Thanks!