that's just silly - Pregnancy Journals

meangene · November 2009

I was looking at pregnancy journals today at B&N and found TWO that started at week one. Hello, Week One?? You're not even pregnant yet. You don't even know that you're going to be pregnant that month in week one!

After looking at a dozen prefilled journals, I just got a plain lined book. I have too much shame about not starting sooner! I would just have to rip out weeks one through eight Big Smile

Are you keeping a journal? If so, what kind of things are you putting in it? I'm a little nervous to take the plunge and start writing.. I know my baby will one day judge me if I have poor spelling or grammar.

Unknown · November 2009

Honestly, I hadn't even thought about it at all, but thanks for the idea! I'll probably pick one up from B&N when I get paid this week!

kmoleson1222 · November 2009

My sister bought me one yesterday (I picked it out). I got one called, "The Belly Book." I thought it was cute (even though it started week 1. Even though I found out week 4 and I'm in week 6 now - I plan to go back and do the weeks I remember. I am really looking forward to it and think it will be fun!

cswatch · November 2009

I think that's a cool idea... maybe I'll do something similar. I think if you keep it and can show it to your LO when they get older it will be something they will cherish and really enjoy seeing. My mom kept a similar thing and gave it to me. I liked reading about how she felt on certain days, etc.

I bought a thing on sale at Borders that is a little memory book that DH and I fill out for the LO. It has questions like "How did you feel when you learned you were going to be a parent?" or "What names were considered when you figured out the one?". We're going to complete that and save it for when our baby is all grown up.

allyandpat2010 · November 2009

I got one for my first daughter and wrote in it my bad days and good. And wrote her little notes so she can read them when she is older. Her daddy wrote in it too. Now I look at it and realize alot of differences in being pregnant at 22 compared to 30...lol

Ruthgers · November 2009

I bought a custom made journal on Etsy with blank pages. I'm journaling on random days and write like I'm writing to LO. I'm also leaving empty spaces where I know I will want to put photos.

This is the seller I got my journal from. I love it!

Uber Art

1MusicMaker · November 2009

I started writing in a (plain) journal when I found out I was pregnant. I was experiencing some major insomnia and it helped clear my mind and relax me enough to sleep. I have slacked off and haven't written in it for about a month, though. This is a good reminder to start again--I experience a lot of anxiety while pregnant, and I find it helps when I write it down.

jessm57 · November 2009

lol about one week! I don't have one... haven't really thought about getting one either. I don't think I could keep up with it, although, it would be pretty cool to have something like that years from now.

Roxpup · November 2009

I'm keeping a pregnancy journal and I started at week 1 because I knew we were trying this cycle.. so I wrote about how I was preparing myself mentally for the baby, and how I was preparing my body for the baby. If I hadn't got pregnant that cycle, I would have wrote about how things happen for a reason, and that when the time is right it will happen, and continued writing about the journal of trying to concieve, and the roller coaster ride that it is.

Mine is on the computer... spell check

jac*n*abe · November 2009

I got "The Pregnancy Journal" which is a journal like the ones you mentioned above. I like that it has daily snippets to read and all that but it's not really much of a journal in the writing sense. I fail to understand how I'm supposed to reach back and remember how I was feeling on Day 1 but whatev. I'm just picking up from the day I got my BFP.

I'm just writing about how I felt that day, thoughts I've had about the baby, how thankful I am to be pregnant, etc.

meangene · November 2009

Ruthgers:
I bought a custom made journal on Etsy with blank pages. I'm journaling on random days and write like I'm writing to LO. I'm also leaving empty spaces where I know I will want to put photos.
This is the seller I got my journal from. I love it!
Uber Art

Those are gorgeous!!! What do you call LO when you write to it? We don't have a good NN for it, so I was probably going to go with Baby A for our last name.

mama-mia · November 2009

What a great idea! I'm going to get one, too...

PrincessLinLin · November 2009

I'm not doing an actual journal. I'm doing a pregnancy blog (online) and once I have the baby I plan on putting all my videos on a dvd to keep.

avada_kedavra · November 2009

i picked up the belly book and ended up returning it. i figured i could make a way cuter one myself!

plus, what a waste of weeks 1-5!

junebug02 · November 2009

I bought one of the Pregnancy Journals at BRU a while back and have had it in my drawer ever since just waiting for the BFP. I just started filling it out tonight!

LyndsayQ · November 2009

I was given a journal from a friend for my 1st pregnancy, but I didn't use it. I probably won't use one this time either.

metzy144 · November 2009

kmoleson1222:
My sister bought me one yesterday (I picked it out). I got one called, "The Belly Book." I thought it was cute (even though it started week 1. Even though I found out week 4 and I'm in week 6 now - I plan to go back and do the weeks I remember. I am really looking forward to it and think it will be fun!

I just ordered this one today. It looks really cute.

EKate2010 · November 2009

I bought a Vera Bradley spiral journal and have been writing letters to 'Baby'. Explain how I'm feeling, the excitement of telling others, updates on doc appts., my hopes as a mother and my overall happiness of what is to come.

It may not mean anything to him/her for quite some time but I'm sure at some point it will be nice for my child to look back and hear how excited DH and I are and to know from the beginning how much he/she is loved. And for me, its a way to connect with my pregnancy and take a minute to really think about everything.

Ruthgers · November 2009

meangene:
Ruthgers:
I bought a custom made journal on Etsy with blank pages. I'm journaling on random days and write like I'm writing to LO. I'm also leaving empty spaces where I know I will want to put photos.
This is the seller I got my journal from. I love it!
Uber Art
Those are gorgeous!!! What do you call LO when you write to it? We don't have a good NN for it, so I was probably going to go with Baby A for our last name.

I call him/her my little munchkin. Once we find out the sex and figure out a name I'll start calling him/her by name. Smile

jknigh8 · November 2009

I ordered the belly book, and I think now that going back through weeks 1-4 before I knew, is a good chance to fill in how I was feeling, (it was our first month trying) and what I was hoping for, how I planned to tell DH (daddy) and things like that.

We're also both writing letters to baby and telling him/her what we hope to see for their future (do ballet or hockey, go to college, weddings ect) also DH and I have started making a list of "Things that happened the year we were expecting you", and "Things that happened the year you were born" and we've come up with a great list! Things like world events (2009 was the first black president, the greatest recession since the great depression...) and family events (two of LO's great grandparents died, daddy got a new job...) things like that that we can reflect on when baby gets much older.