What to do with ultrasound pictures

KMS416 · June 2010

I've had 4 u/s since 6 weeks and have some great pics the tech was able to get get for us. I would love to do something creative with them as a way to display them in the nursery or our house.

What are you doing with your pictures, if anything? I'd love to hear some ideas! PIP would be great too.

kuma08 · June 2010

Im doing a memory book for LO

LCB34 · June 2010

I have more u/s pictures than I know what to do with.

I got an u/s every week during first tri, every other week during second tri, and am about to be back to every week. I have gotten 4-5 good pictures from each u/s (I am high risk).

I have absolutely no clue what I am going to do with them. I've thought about scanning them all in and making a photo book or something but that seems excessive.

I'm curious to hear what others have to say.

Toreshi_Tobin · June 2010

I've actually seen special photo frames that you can get for ultrasounds now. Maybe make a little wall collage with them?

DaisyCakes18 · June 2010

I'll put them in the baby book when we buy one. I saw one at Borders that has pages just for them.

aleana18 · June 2010

I have heard that the pictures can fade over time. I was told to make copies of them to put into books and things so they stay looking nice. I have a pregnancy journal and am putting them in there.

TColeman · June 2010

Toreshi_Tobin:
I've actually seen special photo frames that you can get for ultrasounds now. Maybe make a little wall collage with them?

MIL gave us one of these frames, it's cute, I'm going to put it in the nursery somewhere. As far as the other ultrasound pictures, for right now they stay saved to our CD. My dr's office gave me a CD the first visit so everytime an ultrasound is done they update the CD with the pics, NICE.

stephanieroyer · June 2010

i bought a special frame at a hallmark store for DS's US pics, im going to search for one for this baby's too..i have them up in our hallway, the ones i didnt frame i kept in a box with odd and ends like hospital bracelets..etc

nicole112709 · June 2010

I made sure to scan them all into the computer as soon as I got them. Honestly, our originals are so beat up already since Dh and I both carried them around to show people and they are so thin. I can't stand to throw them away, but they aren't in very good shape. I will make copies from the computer to put into our baby book.

jmepurple · June 2010

I do alot of scrapbooking and the self adhesive laminating sheets work best at preserving them for scrapbooks or keeping them as keepsakes. I know the heat laminating process will make the entire picture turn black, which is why I go with the self adhesive sheets. They sell packs of them at staples for a few dollars.

krissypoo41 · June 2010

aleana18:

I have heard that the pictures can fade over time. I was told to make copies of them to put into books and things so they stay looking nice. I have a pregnancy journal and am putting them in there.

ditto. also heard that you should Not try to laminate the u/s pics because it ruins it.

KristySnyder · June 2010

kuma08:
Im doing a memory book for LO

I am doign a memory/scrap book.... I have the u/s photos in it along with Belly shots and all my appointment info and stuff I was feeling at the different stages....

OctoberBabyH · June 2010

I already have mine in a photo album a family friend gave us when we found out we were expecting. (It's pastel "baby" colors so I thought why not? Her first pictures!)

Sweets2005 · June 2010

I have SO MANY from the twins (once a week from week 5-12 and then monthly and also others sprinkled in when the doctor thought I needed them) that I just put them in a memory box. My sister got a plain round hat box from the craft store, painted it and put pregnancy stickers on it. It is perfect because I also put in baby shower favors, my shower cap thing from the the c-section, and other odds and ends from the pregnancy.

I did put my 2 favorite u/s pics in their scrapbook.

Carrano29 · June 2010

I got a one in a sonogram photo frame, i put the rest in my scrapbook i am making, and then I have another photo frame on my registry that is a sonogram one and you can put the hospital bracelet in it too. I also did the same as someone said, I scanned then all to my computer first hand, before i did anything with them in case i lost them, i will have backups.

SuperThat1006 · June 2010

DH's friend makes these.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Precious-One-An-Ultrasound-Keepsake/206294117501?v=wall

KJmashup · June 2010

I am keeping a pregnancy blog, and as I get u/s pics, I post them to the blog. Further down the road, I will have my blog printed and bound as a book, which will of course contain the blog posts with the u/s pics in them.

As for the hard copies of the u/s pics themselves, I'll probably keep them in LO's baby book.

LinnyAnne10 · June 2010

LindyBugg:
I'll put them in the baby book when we buy one. I saw one at Borders that has pages just for them.

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I'll be picking my favorite, and posting it into the baby book, and most baby books now have an envelope in the back so I'll be putting the rest in that.

maramarrie · June 2010

Because they will fade and degrade over time, I've scanned all mine and had them printed as photos at Walgreens or somewhere. That also makes them the size of a standard photo if you put them in a photo book (if you keep it to scale, they'd likely have a white edge around to fill the negative space). I still have the original u/s thermal prints, but I just keep them with the baby book or pregnancy scrapbooks I have. In 20 years they may not be as clear as they are today, so I want to make sure they will last (or the image at least, by turning them into photographs).