What keepsakes do you have?

[Lou]

I have kept me and Isaac's wristbands from the hospital. I have his umbillical cord with the clip on it in a urine sample bottle with the date and time it fell off written on it. I have all the congratulations cards we recieved plus all of Isaac's christmas cards and birthday cards. I have his 1st and 2nd birthday candles, his first babygrow, his first curl I chopped off, his birthday banners and his first favourite book

I need a bigger keepsake box though

Leckershell...do you have any that you can personalise? That would be lovely to have his own box with his picture on and date of birth etc....

What have you girls kept?

 

[Kimbo]

wristbands
cord clip
cards
doppler
countdown board (yes, my mum was excited )
lock of hair that my mum cut off her and stuck in my first mothers day card
hospital towel
tiny vest

 

[Squiglet]

cord lil miss' went all pusy at the end... thats ewwwwww.... Didn't get to keep her wrist band ... the SCBU took it off and threw it away

 

[Lou]

haha Kimbo I have 2 hospital towels too

Yeah midna I'm good thanks. Been away alot and the laptop is still up in the loft so I don't get online much. Isaac is getting really tall and has started talking which is weird but cool. Hopefully he'll be starting nursery in January so I can start thinking about baby number 2 or going back to some sort of employment.

I see your little lady is growing fast

 

[fran_23]

OMG i have so much stuff in a box for him to see when hes older!

umbilical cord
hospital tags
first sleepsuit
lock of hair from first haircut
2 baby log books
all the newborn cards
2 balloons (deflated and folded up)
all his 1st birthday cards
all the tags off pressies
his scan pics
the cards they put on your babys cot when they are first born

i think thats it...lol

 

[Kimbo]

his scan pics
the cards they put on your babys cot when they are first born

i think thats it...lol

oh yeah i have that card too
and her scan pics and 4d pictures/dvd
i wonder if they'll have dvd players in those days when she's my age

 

[Lou]

his scan pics
the cards they put on your babys cot when they are first born

i think thats it...lol

oh yeah i have that card too
and her scan pics and 4d pictures/dvd
i wonder if they'll have dvd players in those days when she's my age

They'll be too busy floating about on them hover boards to watch DVD's

I have Isaac's scan pics too and what they allowed me to keep of my hospital notes. I wish my mum and dad had kept all my things that I've kept for Isaac although I think a girl would appreciate it more than a boy when they are older. Isaac will probably just be embarrased by it. I can see me now showing his girlfriends his umbillical cord over dinner

You know with modern technology and stuff do you think generations will know more about eachother? I have never seen any photo's of my great grandparents but Isaac will have lots of memories online to show his grand kiddies....and their kiddies....its going to be so different

 

[Kimbo]

his scan pics
the cards they put on your babys cot when they are first born

i think thats it...lol

oh yeah i have that card too
and her scan pics and 4d pictures/dvd
i wonder if they'll have dvd players in those days when she's my age

They'll be too busy floating about on them hover boards to watch DVD's

I have Isaac's scan pics too and what they allowed me to keep of my hospital notes. I wish my mum and dad had kept all my things that I've kept for Isaac although I think a girl would appreciate it more than a boy when they are older. Isaac will probably just be embarrased by it. I can see me now showing his girlfriends his umbillical cord over dinner

You know with modern technology and stuff do you think generations will know more about eachother? I have never seen any photo's of my great grandparents but Isaac will have lots of memories online to show his grand kiddies....and their kiddies....its going to be so different

@ the cord
also... i must have 6 or 7 hundred photos on my laptop of Leah
i cant possibly print them all off and album them.
what do i do? show her the pictures online??!!

 

[fran_23]

LMAO-

yeah can't imagine getting the cord out at his 18th birthday..i'm gonna be an embarrasing mum

lol@hoverboards!!! i think it is more a girl thing but oh well i'll keep them for me if he don't want them!!

 

[Lou]

Yeah Kimbo! Thats the way things are nowadays. Kids use computers when they go to school so it will be the norm for her to view photos online. I do sometimes think I'd like to print off our photos and have an album but it would be so time consuming....I'm sure there are companies that specialise in doing it for you but you can imagine how much they'd charge! We have the opposite problem with our travel albums, we want them online but I can't get round to scanning them all onto our laptop, would take forever

and yeah Fran we know we are really keeping everything for us not our LO's

 

[Kimbo]

and yeah Fran we know we are really keeping everything for us not our LO's

im keeping it all for me!

 

[fran_23]

Yeah totally- omg i never realised it before..i thought i was being a lovely mum keeping all
this stuff for him....hes not having it!! its MINE!!!!

 

[Lou]

I love looking back on things. Where our friends live in Horseham there is a park and when one of my friends son's were little they built a walkway and paved part. Its really lovely and what they did was offer any local people the chance to have a brick with a name engraved into it so my friend has their own little engraved brick there with their sons name on it. Its a beautiful thing and hopefully it will be there for a long time and something his kids will see and their kids.

Fran come one....be nice and share...theres a good mum

 

[Foxxi]

Iv kept a piece of hair..congrats cards..first baby grow and hat.. scan pics.. wrist bands.. and two newspapers from the day he was born, a local Gazette and The Mirror! £70.oo now for The Daily Mirror, I wanted one dated of the day my mum was born for her 60th! Mind you, a 60yr old Daily Mirror ..thats a frickin antique isnt it!

 

[LisaJ1986]

I wanted to keep Angel's cord but OH made me throw it away.
I have both her bands
Her 1st sleepsuit that she wore
And the hat she wore, badly stained in mucus. It won't wash out.
Her very 1st dress, she was the 1st girl in my family! Lol
All the Congrats cards
A newspaper from the day she was born.
And all the scan pics are framed.

 

[Bloom]

Same as you really i cant think of anything else.

Apart from her first sleepsuit she still wears as it was so big for her. Shes still in newborn clothes.

 

[kazlin]

I've kept:

The hospital card they attach to the hospital cot.
Wristbands.
First babygro he wore.
Cards.
I will also add the white shawl he was wrapped in soon after birth.

 

[elaine22]

wristband
umbilical cord clamp
first pair of bootees
first cardigan
cards from friends and family
my copy of all the birth info from the hospital
first lock of hair that I chopped off
positive pregnancy tests
hospital card attached to cot
scratch mitts
front page of newspaper from day she was born
number 1 cd the day she was born
the pregnancy journal I wrote

 

[poppy160]

Cord and cards, wristbands, her first hat, I can't remember the first babygrow she wore.. Oh, and the first blanket she was wrapped in..I stole it from the hospital

 

[beanie]

Seren:
hospital wristbands (she had 2)
her cot cards
balloons she got
congrats cards
first outfit she wore
her coming home outfit
her first favourite toy (though Cally is currently playing with that)
1st and 2nd birthday cards
a baby record book
a copy of her birth story
a copy of her naming ceremony and her certificate
her labour notes, I was meant to give them to the Dr - oops
her first soft shoes
her first proper shoes
a personalised nappy wrap
hair from her first proper haircut

Cally
a card with her birth details on
a personalised nappy wrap
her first day outfit (bless her she didn't have a coming home outfit as she was a homebirth)
my pregnancy notes (I lost them and found them only 2 weeks ago)
her first soft shoes
her first favourite toy
congratulations cards
copy of her birth story
photo of her and the midwives who delivered her
plus she will have the naming ceremony stuff, birthday cards etc as she gets older

I need to get some proper boxes toput it all in. I have a ceramic "tag" for Seren'sbox with her DOB and birthweight on and need to get one for Call's. I couldn't keep their cord, I just couldn't have some flesh in there - am really squeamish lol.

I am doing mine for my girls. I have absolutely no record of my childhood, when my parents died I lost all my past really. I don'tknow anyhting about when I sat for the first time, walked etc, my first word or how my mum'spregnancy went. It'sone thing that really upsets me so I am making sure my girls have all this. I am also doing a scrapbookfor them both and we have made little videos of Seren's first 2 years, and are currently doing Cally's.