Those first few weeks after coming home with baby seem to be a blur. Weeks or months in my case of sleepness nights and I felt like I was running on fumes. But just looking at my sweet little bundle of joy all wrapped up cozy and warm, gave me the motivation I needed to keep on going.
While my babies aren’t really “babies” anymore, when they were younger, the thing I looked forward to most was hearing them call me mama. That moment was incredibly special for me with each of my children. After hearing them call me mama, the thing I looked forward to most was them walking. I loved watching them learning to use their little legs to get them where they wanted to go and seeing how excited that they figured it out.
With my first child, I kept track of all “firsts”, memories and developmental milestones in a baby book. With my second and third children, instead of using a baby book, I wrote down these special occasions into a spiral notebook. While I love my daughters baby book, it just isn’t as cute as I thought it was when I bought it. So my thinking with my other children was that I could create more of a scrapbook style book with all these important memories later on. Instead of a standard baby book with teddy bears and rattles, I could create a baby book with their pictures.
Philip AVENT now offers a free iPhone application, “My Baby & Me” that allows you to keep track of your baby’s health and growth, sleep patterns, diaper changes, and feeding schedule which can then be combined into a sharable movie of all your baby’s firsts.
How do you or did you keep track of all your baby’s milestones and memories? Join the discussion on the Philips AVENT Mom Tribe and be entered to win one of four spout cups or a baby monitor.
Tamara B. says
Awe, what a sweet little angel 🙂
Anne - Mommy Has to Work says
My first – I documented everything in his book. My second – I took lots of pictures!
Katie says
I have a baby book – and I have been horrible at keeping it updated!
Brandi @ Flip Flop Mama says
How sweet! What a beautiful baby.
Virginia from That Bald Chick says
My kids both have baby books. I said they have them… I didn’t say they were updated. LOL.
April Decheine says
Wow there are so many things available today that were not available when my kids were little. 🙂 My grand kids will be spoiled and documented 🙂
HilLesha says
Awwww!
Brandy says
Yes raising my baby was a blur – mostly for the boys – man they were so different than my daughter, even from birth!
Barbara Platt says
those days go so fast and then they’re gone forever