Becoming a new mother is such a special time. Why not journal about some of those special moments and thought on your next digital scrapbooking project?!
The most meaningful baby albums, scrapbooks, and journals go beyond the details of birth weight and time-of-day to capture the true emotion behind the birth by using journaling and photos.
Many digital scrapbookers are combining journaling with digital scrapbooking. It makes sense that journaling and digital scrapbooking are a natural fit!
You have your lovely scrapped page and then you add your precious photos so now it makes sense to include something said about the whole thing too!
However, even with the advent of a new child, we want to write more but our feelings, and experiences but don’t know where to start. So, see if these new Mother journaling prompts that might help!
New Mother’s Journaling Prompts:
- How did your pregnancy go? Special Memories?
- When did you learn about it sex? What did you feel?
- How did you select the name?
- How did you know you where in labor? What is your Labor story?
- Who went with you to the hospital? How did you feel.. calm, scared.. other??
- What do you remember about your surroundings at the time of the birth? What was happening and how did you feel?
- Describe the feeling when your baby was first placed in your arms? How did you baby look, smell, feel?
- Describe the feelings of seeing your baby in your spouse or partner’s arms for the first time? Where they calm, scared… how did that make you feel?
- Who came to see the baby? What special things do you remember they said or felt about your baby?
- What are other memories of your spouse or partner with the baby? Like when you were together with the baby for the first time your saw the baby or the first time you were alone with the baby?
- What was it like to take the baby home? Who was there to greet the baby? What feelings did you have?
- Any funny, or surprising story… like did you put the diapers on backwards the first time?
- Were there any feelings of fear about parenting? If so, why?
- What advice would you have liked to known and now would tell new mothers-to-be?
- Recall how you felt upon seeing the other members of your family with your young baby. In what special way did they each bond with the baby?
- What was the first song you sang to your baby?
- What was it like to put your baby in his/her room in their own crib? What did this room look like, what feelings did you want your baby to experience when they were in this room or crib?
- What do you hope for your baby? What are your dreams or values you wish for him/her?
- What was the first book you read to your baby? Why?
- What do you want to teach your baby?
- What message do you want your baby to have?
- When did you feel all was “OK”?
- In what way are you proud of yourself – as a new mother?
- What changes have you experienced, more organized, loving… etc.?
- Special rituals like Baptism? Circumcision? Naming the Baby? Other ceremonies, or traditions? How did you feel? How did others feel? Who came?
- How did your relationship with your own mother change? Was there a shift in perspective? How about changes towards your Grandmothers? Women in general?
These prompts can serve as inspiration to include writing into a digital scrapbooking page and they can also inspire photos and scrapbooking themes too!!!
Use these prompts with those special new baby and new mom photos that will coordinate with the journaling prompts too!
Hope these ideas will encourage you to add a little text to your next digital scrapbooking project or page!!!
Enjoy!
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