Scrapbooking Baby

When it comes to that delightful news that you are pregnant, about the first real view you get of your gorgeous new baby, are the ultrasound pictures.  They are usually very special and very important to you so it makes perfect sense to start your scrapbooking baby album off with the ultrasound pictures.  Not forgetting that some parents like to also include things like a photo of the pregnancy test which first confirmed the happy news, so this may in fact be the first layout in your album, but the ultrasound pictures are definitely a must have in your scrapbooking baby album.

Now it depends on your doctor as to how many scans you have throughout the duration of your pregnancy, but most commonly it around the 12 and 20 week mark.  Your first scan you are full of anticipation and fear, you want to know your baby is okay, and the 20 week scan is an exciting time to see how much your baby has grown and if you want to know the gender of your baby, this can often be looked at on this scan.  Whether you decide to use both the 12 and 20 week ultrasounds in your scrapbooking baby album is up to you, some parents only put the 20 week pictures in as they show so much more of the baby.

If you don’t know the gender of the baby, then choose mutual colors that would fit with both a baby boy or a baby girl, you may even add some quotes questioning whether the baby is a boy or girl.  On the other hand if you do know the gender, feel free to do a very blue or very pink layout to reflect what you know.  Most ultrasound pictures are black and white, (unless you are lucky enough to have a new 4D scan pictures) so you can easily pick any color to suit the images.  Quite often many members of your family and even your friends will want to look at these pictures before your baby is born, so having them safely mounted in your scrapbooking baby album can really help to preserve them when many hands and fingers will be touching them.

Another idea is to add some notes from your pregnancy journal to the layout.  If you only have one or two pictures and there is a lot of room left over on the page, you can combine the ultrasound pictures with some of your baby journal notes to help fill the page and it adds a story to the pictures, has it been an easy pregnancy so far, any complications, fears, dreams, hopes.  It can all be added quite nicely and it can really make an ultrasound page complete especially when you don’t have many pictures.

Whichever way you choose to create your baby’s ultrasound pictures layout, I am sure it will turn out beautifully, just make sure you put them into your scrapbooking baby album as they really are such an important part that you don’t want to leave out.  They are the things you look back on and treasure, and so will your baby in the years to come.

Many thanks to Wes and Eli for the ultrasound layout image above.