You've taken more photos in the last twelve months than in the previous five years combined. The monthly milestone shots, the first smile, the 2am feedings, the grandparent visits — they're all in there somewhere, mixed with screenshots and grocery lists. Here's how to turn that beautiful chaos into a book.
Start Your Baby Book →The classic approach, and for good reason. One spread per month with the monthly blanket photo, the biggest developments, and a note about what changed. Watching a newborn become a walking, babbling almost-toddler across twelve spreads is breathtaking.
Dedicate a section to every person who held your baby in the first year. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors. A page for each, with their name, their relationship, and the moment they first met. Your child will look at these pages for decades.
First bath. First solid food. First laugh. First steps. First haircut. First time at the beach. Organize the whole book around firsts, with each one getting its own spread. It turns the book into a record of discovery — everything your baby experienced for the very first time.
Not every photo needs to be a milestone. The 6am bedhead, the banana-smeared high chair, the way they slept in the car seat. These ordinary moments are the ones you forget fastest, and the ones that hit hardest when you look back five years from now.
Use natural light. Sit near a window. Morning light is soft and warm and makes everything — especially baby skin — look beautiful. Turn off the flash.
Get down to their level. The best baby photos are taken from the baby's perspective, not standing above them. Lie on the floor. Kneel next to the changing table. Meet their eyes.
Capture the context. Don't just photograph the baby. Photograph the room, the mess, the half-eaten lunch on the counter, the sibling watching from the doorway. These details tell the real story.
Take photos of the mundane. The photos that move you ten years from now aren't the posed ones. They're the 3am feeding, the laundry pile with tiny socks on top, the view from the rocking chair. Photograph what Tuesday looks like.
Include yourself. You're sleep-deprived and haven't showered. That's the truth of the first year, and it's beautiful. Take the selfie. Hand the phone to your partner. Set up the timer. Future you will be grateful.
You don't need design skills. You don't need to spend a weekend on a template. You already did the hard part — you took the photos. We handle the rest.
Digital Book: $69 — beautifully designed, shareable with family, viewable on any device
Printed Book: $199 — premium hardcover, 80+ pages, free US shipping, digital included
Extra copies for grandparents: $79 each
Right now. Seriously. The best time to start is whenever you're thinking about it. Many parents start during pregnancy or in the first weeks after birth, but there's no wrong time. If your baby is already six months old, you still have hundreds of photos worth organizing. If your baby is two, you can still make a gorgeous first-year book from the photos already on your phone.
You don't have to. Send us all your photos and we'll sort them chronologically using the date metadata on each file. We'll create natural chapter breaks at each month and add milestone markers. If you have specific monthly photos (like blanket milestone shots), just let us know and we'll feature those as chapter openers.
Yes, and many parents do. Ultrasound photos make a beautiful opening chapter — the story before the story. If your ultrasounds are printed on thermal paper, photograph them with your phone now (they fade over time). We'll clean up the image quality and integrate them into the book's design alongside your other photos.
Not at all. Most parents who make baby photo books do it after the first year, not during it. You're too busy and too sleep-deprived in those early months to organize photos. The fact that your baby is a toddler means you have the full first year documented and the perspective to know which moments mattered most. That actually makes for a better book.
We recommend sharing at least 100-200 photos, but more is better — we'll curate the best ones. Most parents have thousands from the first year. Don't worry about duplicates, blurry shots, or screenshots mixed in. Send us everything and our designers will find the gems. A typical baby book uses 150-300 photos across 80-120 pages.
Yes. Write your note on paper, photograph it, and send it to us — we'll include the handwritten image in the book. Or type out your message and we'll set it in beautiful typography on a dedicated page. Many parents include a letter at the beginning or end of the book, or short notes at each monthly milestone. These personal touches are often the most treasured pages.
Share your baby photos and we'll design a book you'll treasure for a lifetime. First proof in 72 hours.
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