An award-winning, beautifully illustrated, combined pregnancy and first year journal to help you hold onto memories of the growing bump, the birth and the first year with your baby.

Bump To Birthday makes a lovely gift for yourself, your partner or a friend to celebrate pregnancy. You have the option to make your journal even more special by adding your personal touch and creating a personalised version of this pregnancy and first year journal. Some pregnancy journals have an educational component to them. This typically includes cute “your baby is the size of a ( fruit)” or tips for common pregnancy symptoms at each stage. Others skip all of that and focus on documenting the pregnancy.Best Pregnancy Journal For Mental Health/Self Care: The Pregnancy Workbook: Manage Anxiety and Worry with CBT and Mindfulness Techniques You may also want to record information about the times you first learned you were expecting, felt your baby move, shared the good news with your parents, learned the baby’s sex, selected a name, any baby showers, etc. If you are researching pediatricians or child care for your baby after birth, you might also include this information. A pregnancy journal may provide space for all this information; storage for photos/ultrasounds, cards, etc.; and space for thoughts, reflections, hopes, and prayers. Do I need both a pregnancy journal and a baby book?

Just like with a scrapbook or standard journal, some pregnancy journals come with prompts. This can be ideal if you’re not used to writing in a journal and don’t know where to begin with documenting your pregnancy or recording your thoughts and feelings. A pregnancy journal is a notebook or scrapbook that holds all the details about your pregnancy. Some journals include space to record memories after the baby is born, too. What should I write in a pregnancy journal?A pregnancy journal, as such, is not a need; but you might want to have at least a notepad or small notebook in which to keep important information about appointments, names and telephone numbers of an obstetrician or other caregivers, prescribed medications/supplements/exercise, and any unusual symptoms. A must have, high quality combined pregnancy and first year journal with details of baby's development on a week-by-week basis with prompts for parents to chronicle their pregnancy, birth and baby's first year.

Depending on how nostalgic you are or how much you like to process things, a pregnancy journal may certainly be worth it!

Best Overall Pregnancy Journal Book — Growing You: Keepsake Pregnancy Journal and Memory Book for Mom and Baby Helen is responsible for all the design and production aspects of the business. From signing new authors and illustrators, to coming up with ideas and new products for the team to bring to market. She works with creatives and printers from all over the world and has done bespoke books and journals for leading UK brands.