What was the name of your (or your child's) baby book?

Mine was called 'All About You' - a baby book designed specifically for adopted children. The first page is of 'how we looked when you first came home' and 'how you looked when you first came home with us' I was 3 months old.

I remember wondering where I'd been BEFORE that. At a very young age I realised that book wasn't 'all about me' at all. Chapter One was missing from the book! I spent the rest of my life searching out chapter one and this year I managed to fill in the missing pictures :)

Our youngest daughters baby book was premade and was given to us by very old friends on the night we went to the hospital and picked her up. It's started as of that day, when she was four days old, and the first thing in it was the parking slip from the hospital lot when we went down to meet the social worker and get the temp guardianship papers to bring her home. We filled it out from that day and added other photos and memorabilia till it was full at a year old. About the only difference was that the photos we put in it only showed the baby and the written info was directly related to her in the event that the adoption did not go through and her birth mother was able to work her plan so that the baby could have gone back to her. Once PGO was done and the adoption was in process we were more relaxed in what info was in there since the book would be staying with us.

I can't remember the name...

I have a special baby book for internationally adopted children for my son. It has pages about his country of birth and other pages specifically for IA adoptees. That is where I keep teh only photo I have of my son and his mother when he was about 3 months old.

I also have a photo album with only pics of him with his foster family there, which covers him from day 3 of his life and on... (I sent a few disposable cameras for them to use for us.). The rest are just just regualar photo albums.

Mine is called "The First Seven Years" and it is a pre-made baby book specifically for adopted children. It has a place for birth information (length, weight, date, etc.) but it also has a place for adoptiom announcements (if applicable)

We were very lucky that my son's foster parents took lots of pictures! They also saved his hair from his first hair cut. They also had a picture of him when he was 2 days old still in the hospital (from the social worker)! We have all those pictures in the album. The album itself was made by my mother-in-law (his grandma). She made baby albums for all her grandchildren and when we started visiting our son she made his right the way. It is really cute. It just has ribbons, fabric, stars, the moon. We have pictures of his first steps, potty training, lots of baby pics (after 3 months old), etc... A picture of his foster parents with him is also in there. We showed a picture of his bio mom (the only one we have) to him and he said he didn't know who she was and told us he didn't want her in the album (long and sad story), so we decided to put her pic away along with all his CPS files for him to see it in the future if he decides to do that! We tried to fill all the "gaps" in his baby album. I hope we did a good job!

I just had some Precious Moments photo albums. They didn't ever make me a baby book. My book started with the day they got me. I have no pictures of myself before I was a few months old. I don't even know how old I was, because the pictures aren't dated, and I can't get a clear story as to how old I was when I came to live with my APs.

Mine is called "Bringing Up Baby - Birth to Seven Years". It is a sickly lime green colour with a tree and baby carriage made to look like real wood and bad quilting fabric. It's about as late '70's as they come. For some reason it has a time of birth on the front page... idk where they pulled that out of. Under that it says the date, time and address of where they picked me up. The book starts the day they picked me up but they made it seem like that was at birth. My ABC was pasted in but I took it out to use long ago when I needed a long form for something. There is a page for my first picture, but it is actually a photo of me at three months. All the normal firsts are in there but some of them are not accurate as I was already doing them when they got me. They filled it out right up to my seventh birthday. Apparently I bowled my first game on Sunday, February 13th 1983 and I scored a 60! Good job little me lol.

Mine is a premade baby book that my amom filled in the best she could with the information given her by the CAS. She skipped over the first few months, and just started filling things in at the 6 month mark. They took a pic of me on my first day home and put it in the book.

"The story of ME"

Handmade scrapbook I made. The story starts with her Mothers pregnancy. I wrote about all hopes and dreams her Mother has for her. I told about her pregnancy symptoms, heartburn, baby's hiccups, etc..

Then about her birth and hospital stay. The Foster care home where she stayed for a month with of her mother and ourselves visiting her.

Then taking her home to her nursery, seeing family, and lastly the court where everything was "official". I kept it factual and just explained her complicated journey at such a young age.

Lastly reminding her, she has two families. She is a part of us all and we all have a great love for her. (little bit of gooshiness, couldn't help it:))

**have tons of pictures for every stage, except the birth. We didn't go. But her Mother gave us copies of her hospital picture.

Hey...love the new look!

We have two baby books thanks to our son's bio mom and his foster mom.

His bio mom put pictures together with captions. The pictures are of her along her pregnancy as well as in the hospital. She already knew she would not have custody and it is very bitter sweet to read it but it is such a loving gesture on her part. She talks about her feelings a bit but you can tell she kept it as positive as possible for his ears. It must have been very hard. She has funny comments about him in hats or how big he was (and he was!). The most touching part is her photographs of us with her or the CAS social worker and our son. In those captions she talks about how he just eased his way to us like he already knew we would love him as much as she does (her words). She had other kind words of that sort. She also made a birthday cake for him, shaped in the number "1" because she wouldn't be there for his 1st birthday. We had a party all together. All this is in photographs and I can't even imagine how hard that would have been for her.

Book number 2 is a very thick scrapbook made by his foster mom. From birth until after we took him home (she printed from emailed pictures to finish the book for us). She included letters from her grandkids, extended family and most special of all...her and her husband. All talked about their attachement to him and how good he was to have around and how their lives are forever impacted by his presence in their home. The most emotional letter is from the foster dad who ends with...."you touched this old soldier's heart". He was a Lt. Colonel in the Armed Forces. It's your typical scrapbook cute decorations but plenty of info about health, food preferences, bottle times etc...and pictures of course.

It was such a blessing to be able to go see the care these women took in helping us fill in the blanks and help us picture life before we came along. Mostly, it's a precious gift to our son that we could never have given him.

I was looking at them both the other night.

This was a great question.