The first year of your parenting experience will undoubtedly be filled with a lot of excitement and memorable events. These can be easy to miss or misremember with all of the stress involved with it too.
Creating a photo album for your Baby’s first year is a great way to preserve those memories and even anchor yourself down while experiencing them. Here are some tips for getting the most out of your photo album.
Things You Might Need to Create Your Baby’s First Year Album
Phone Printer
While you can always run down to a nearby convenience store and pick up a disposable camera, the most accessible camera that you will have at your disposal is your phone.
Something like the KODAK Step Wireless Mobile Photo Mini Printer will be a great way to turn those quick mobile pictures into tangible memories fit for a photo album.
Polaroid Camera / Create Your Baby’s First Year Album
Phone pictures are definitely going to be the easiest way to capture and record your baby’s first year, but there is something to be said about the classic feel of a polaroid. With the recent boom in the popularity of film cameras, there are plenty of options to choose from.
The Fujifilm Instax Mini is an excellent option for preserving memories directly in an analogue form. With no shortage of film and near-instant development time, this is a great option for documenting your baby’s first year.
Cricut
Not every photo album has to be stuffy and plain. Traditional albums simply displaying 2-3 pictures on a page are fine, but you want to make your photo album unique. The Cricut is a wonderful tool for customizing your baby’s album to your heart’s content.
The “Firsts” / Create Your Baby’s First Year Album
This might seem like a no-brainer, but that’s because it is.
The “firsts” are going to be the biggest thing that you’re going to want to document. But how do you go about doing this?
Always take pictures.
Throw some video in there for a safety measure as well. Don’t let this take away from actually experiencing these events with your baby, but soon it will become second nature, and you will never again have to say, “Did you get that?!”
New For You
It is going to be easy to get a lot of your babies first on camera because, frankly, everything is new to them! What is easier to forget are the experiences that are new to you!
This album is about your baby’s first year, but this is also documenting your life as well.
Be sure not to forget about your or a partner’s life during this exciting time. You will be grateful for all of the opportunities to look back at your life during this time.
Not Pictures / Create Your Baby’s First Year Album
This suggestion may sound odd but bear with us.
A great way to add variety to a photo album is to add pieces that aren’t photos, at least some not being ones you have taken. Add in the baby’s sonogram images, or maybe even a first baby food label.
There are plenty of ways to mix up an album documenting your baby’s first year. Have fun with it and go with whatever brings you joy at that moment.
… or let me do it for you!
Marie Myers Photography specialises in newborn and baby photoshoots for families in and around Tardebigge, Bromsgrove.
We offer a range of beautiful bespoke wall art and stunning printed artwork, and specialised photoshoots to help you capture all those precious early memories.
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