Your favourite way to remember becoming a parent

j.e.j.

Caroline_a wrote: »

Maybe a bit contentious, but I didn't do anything and am not really sorry I didnt. My pre-pregnancy memories are stored away in my head, and I'm not sure that keeping a load of stuff like has been suggested would be anything more than drawer fillers. Imagine if it was from your mum. Nice to have maybe, but stays in a drawer or in the attic. Probably would get lost in a house move.

Additionally, it's the sort of thing that would embarrass a teenager dreadfully! No, I prefer to tell my kids the stories of that time - I think we have lost a lot of the art of story telling and passing it down the generations. They then can chose to remember it or forget.

Yes, and I think the OP said they're expecting a boy? Boys tend not to be as interested in this sort of nostalgic memorabilia as girls. Nor do they really want to know what the birth was like or what their mum looked like when she was 9 months pregnant.. :eek::rotfl:

Idiophreak

Caroline_a wrote: »

They then can chose to remember it or forget.

I've forgotten plenty of things I didn't *choose* to...

BJV

We have got loads of old video we recorded of us before and then on the way to the hospital. Can not believe my ankles where so swollen ha ha We are also very lucky a family member hand stitched a photo with time weights etc.

mumcoll

I had newspapers on the day they were born, kept pressed flowers from bouquets, the umbilical cord clamp thingy from my youngest. The most unique was my stitches..... :eek:

mgdavid

lilmissreading wrote: »

........ I would like our little man to know his story started before he arrived..........

I reckon he won't be in the least bit interested; I think it more likely that you are doing this for now, for yourself, not for him, later on. Nothing wrong with that, entirely natural for the first one ( and congrats, BTW).
Many of us have looked back after 20 years and said 'what were we thinking of?'

suejb2

We kept a newspaper but the day after as that covers the previous days news (the day baby was born) I take a photo on of them every year on their birthday and keep them in a "birthday" album and probably give it to them on their 16th/18th/21st I haven't decided yet.

Ms_Chocaholic

Measure your belly with a tape measure as photos don't always show how big you actually were.

lostinrates

Caroline_a wrote: »

Maybe a bit contentious, but I didn't do anything and am not really sorry I didnt. My pre-pregnancy memories are stored away in my head, and I'm not sure that keeping a load of stuff like has been suggested would be anything more than drawer fillers. Imagine if it was from your mum. Nice to have maybe, but stays in a drawer or in the attic. Probably would get lost in a house move.

Additionally, it's the sort of thing that would embarrass a teenager dreadfully! No, I prefer to tell my kids the stories of that time - I think we have lost a lot of the art of story telling and passing it down the generations. They then can chose to remember it or forget.

j.e.j. wrote: »

Yes, and I think the OP said they're expecting a boy? Boys tend not to be as interested in this sort of nostalgic memorabilia as girls. Nor do they really want to know what the birth was like or what their mum looked like when she was 9 months pregnant.. :eek::rotfl:

Dh's mother died when he was a teen, his father has no 'sentimental memories' of the boys, though lots of the daughter. There are loads of photos and school work and some Betamax now on DVD.

What is REALLY lacking is really useful stuff. Information about what jabs and childhood illnesses they had ( not all the childhood was in one country so its not all on medical records). Things about how his mother felt about things.

Tbh, kids make their own memories about things. What DH would most like to know sometimes is how his mother felt about things. Keep a diary, reflect on current events, things in the family, talk about yourselves and grown up things. As adults if you aren't there to discuss it I promise you your kids will be more interested in you as people than a newspaper of the day of their birth or a long stored picture drawn aged six and three quarters.

Flossie.

Buy a box and put loads of stuff in. Like a kind of 'time capsule.' Some ideas of what to put in.

A hard copy of the number one single, (and the album and DVD if you can afford to.)

A newspaper from the day.

A written (or typed) list of significant news items the year he was born (incl the Scotland referendum.)

A set of current coins, (and stamps.)

A couple of your fave magazines.

Some posters of the latest film stars and pop stars and sports stars etc.

Pics taken inside and outside your house.

Pics of your current friends and family.

A petrol receipt.

Some wrappers off crisps and chocolate bars etc.

A receipt from your groceries.

A Ford or Vauxhall car range brochure, (or whatever car you fancy.)

A list of the properties for sale from your local newspaper.

An Argos catalogue, so that baby can see what gadgets and toys and furniture etc was about when they were born.

A toy car of the most popular car right now.

And all sorts of similar things like this...

We did this: made a 'baby's first year' box of loads of stuff from when our daughter was born, and take it out and look at it once every year or so. We love it. (Us and our daughter.) We made one when she was 5 too. We should probably make another one soon as she is nearly 18.

natbags

i really recommend one of the hand print/foot print pictures - we had our sons done at John Lewis within the first week he was born - my son (who is nearly 13) is still fascinated by it and how tiny he must have been