Baby's First Years
Twelve monthly chapters and five yearly ones, each deliberately short — two pages a parent can finish in one sitting. The front of the book covers the day they arrived, where their name came from, and who was waiting; there is a page for visitors to write to them directly.
Blank is the 52-page book set out below with the questions printed and the answer space empty, ready to write in — straight to checkout, nothing to design.
- Size
- 8.5 × 8.5 in (square)
- Binding
- Hardcover, photo-wrapped, from $49
- Pages
- 52 as it comes
- Paper
- 80# coated white (about 118 gsm), gloss laminate on the cover. Coated stock: heavier and smoother, best for photographs. Fountain-pen ink sits wetter on it. Choose coil in the builder and it prints on 60# uncoated white (about 90 gsm), matte. Uncoated — the better surface for fountain pens and heavy ink.
- Chapters
- 16 · month by month, then year by year
Will it arrive in time?
Every book is printed after you order, so the wait is printing plus post. Put in a US ZIP and we'll estimate the date — before you build anything.
What each chapter holds
The same 3 pages repeat for every chapter, so the book stays consistent from the first to the last — which is the point of a year-by-year keepsake.
- Page 1How big you are
- Weight
- Height
- Clothes size
- Page 2What you are like right now
- What you did for the first time
- What you sound like
- What a day looks like
- How the nights are going
- + 4 more
- Page 3This is you
Room for your photographs.
The chapters
Every label is editable, and you can add or remove chapters in the builder.
- Month 1
- Month 2
- Month 3
- Month 4
- Month 5
- Month 6
- Month 7
- Month 8
- Month 9
- Month 10
- Month 11
- Month 12
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Year 4
- Year 5
Before the chapters
The day you arrived
The facts, as far as anyone knows them. Fill in what you know and leave the rest.
Your name, and who was waiting
Where your name came from, and who was already on your side.
The week you arrived
What the rest of the world was doing that week.
From the people who came to meet you
Pass this around. Whoever held you first should go first.
First Years
Buy it blank to write in by hand, or open it in the builder to see every page as it will print and type the answers in so we print them.