The First-Time Mom's Pregnancy Journal: Monthly Checklists, Activities, & Journal Prompts

Very cute book. Got it when I was newly pregnant, worked on it a little but forgot about it (pregnancy brain lol)

So fun for a 1st time mom. Lots of great reminders and questions to think about while being pregnant!

Love this - recieved it in my first and bought for others always

I bought this when I first found out that I was pregnant. For the most part I have really enjoyed the prompts and documenting my journey through pregnancy. I think I will be happy to have this to look back through some day. I would recommend this to anyone who likes to keep a journal or log. I took one star away because it only goes to 36 weeks. I can’t figure out why they wouldn’t include the last month of pregnancy.

I got this journal for my niece, for her first pregnancy, and she couldn’t be happier! A great way to track all the steps of this beautiful journey of bringing a new baby to the world.

This book is set up with prompts for each month of pregnancy that include a spot to include a monthly bump photo, simple written answer section to complex thought provoking paragraphs, a detailed check-list, activities that inspire creative responses and thinking, appointment tracker, and an area to write free-style each month. Each trimester also has a spot to include an ultrasound photo as well :) Pros: I adored filling it out each month and loved how unique every prompt and activity was. It did not seem like there were many (if any) duplicate questions during the 9 month journey. There is plenty of space to put your own answers as well, where other books felt very cramped. The set-up for each month was similar (e.g. short answer section, check-list section, activity section, ect.) which made journaling easy and allowed me to skip around the month if I didn't have an answer for the prompt/section yet. There is also a bit of extra space in some of the months where I was able to print off and add extra photos (positive pregnancy test, baby shower, maternity photos, gender reveal, nursery, ect.) to turn it into a fun scrap-book as well. Cons: Some (not many) of the monthly mile-stones are a little ahead of the game for a first time mom (e.g. question about feeling baby movement earlier than 20 weeks, which is the average when first time moms feel it). The final month has many prompts about the laboring process rather than what your experiencing during the final month, which meant waiting till the end of the pregnancy to fill out the prompts (the actives on the other hand could be done anytime during the final month). Over all as a first time mom, I really enjoyed filling out this book and highly recommend it to any other momma's-to-be who love colorful/fun/creative journaling :)

Even when I'm feeling down, and I've struggled in lots of ways this entire pregnancy, this still brings me joy and I love thinking about how far I've come and it's nice to reread things I wrote before because my memory is not all there anymore so I barely remember the first trimester. I was struggling the hardest then. But I want my baby to know she is loved and I think about her all the time and how worth it she is. Worth every little ache, pain, and nightmare. I'm in my 3rd trimester now and though it doesn't have all 40 weeks it has 9 months for you to be specific about. I like most of the questions, it has size comparisons for how baby is growing, and spots for you to put your own pictures and thoughts. The checklists are nice too, for what you should be looking into/doing that month to prepare for baby. Its nice to have extra support and know you're on track to having a healthy beautiful baby. It even reminds you to drink plenty of water on several pages. I really love having it. I think it'll be one more thing in her baby box for her to read and know me better, and know what it was like to be pregnant.

Bought for my sister and she’s so excited to start using this journal. I love that it offers checklists and she found it cute that it gives you baby size comparisons every month. She loves that there’s spaces for her to add ultrasound photos.