Comments on: My Baby Book Stinks! http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/ The latest on baby gifts and keepsakes from BabySakes.com Tue, 19 May 2009 15:50:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kendall http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-228 Kendall Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:32:51 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-228 I don't have any horror stories or a book that I dislike to tell you about...my personal baby book is beautiful although a little bare (in comparison to my older sibiling) due to my mother barely finding time for herself while juggling two small children but I want to do it right the first time so when my little one asks one day I can hand it to him/her and smile while watching them learn the little things that make them so dear to us. I recently moved states away from home with my husband to is Active Duty Army and returned from Iraq not long ago and sadly will be deploying again before our baby is 5 months old (fingers crossed that he won't go) but I want him to be able to see the changes his baby went through even though he wasn't able to see them himself...especially because he couldn't. Being able to get an amazing baby book to throw myself into it to pass time while my husband is gone and my family is miles away would be a blessing on top of the Blessing thats on the way... I don’t have any horror stories or a book that I dislike to tell you about…my personal baby book is beautiful although a little bare (in comparison to my older sibiling) due to my mother barely finding time for herself while juggling two small children but I want to do it right the first time so when my little one asks one day I can hand it to him/her and smile while watching them learn the little things that make them so dear to us. I recently moved states away from home with my husband to is Active Duty Army and returned from Iraq not long ago and sadly will be deploying again before our baby is 5 months old (fingers crossed that he won’t go) but I want him to be able to see the changes his baby went through even though he wasn’t able to see them himself…especially because he couldn’t. Being able to get an amazing baby book to throw myself into it to pass time while my husband is gone and my family is miles away would be a blessing on top of the Blessing thats on the way…

]]> By: Jessica http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-217 Jessica Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:09:44 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-217 Well I have a horror story for you!! My hubby and I have been together for 6 years now and I have a beautiful stepdaughter that is 8 years old and my husband and her mother split up when she was 1 1/2 yaers old. Well my husband is a WONDERFUL dad and he spend so much time with her holding her all though the night and waking up and feeding her all night long and doing all the great things that mom's do and dad's a suppose to do, while her mother did nothing and decided that she was to young for a daughter and went out every night all night. So as my husband spend all this time taking care of his beautiful little girl he wrote every single thing down that she did from the second she was born to her first word which was fan LOL because she loved to stare at the fan and her dad would say "FAN" over and over. Her first smile, how gasses she was to how she loved to run in the corner to go poop LOL. So anyways great memories that of course he can remember and I can since I was told eveything, but it would be a great thing to pass on to her when she gets old enough but Unforturely her mother (which is a awful person and we won't even go there) took the book when she moved out and was driving with out a license and got pulled over and had all kinds of things in her trunk, whick inclued her baby book and all of her baby pictures and all the really important stuff even her social security card (Who knows why she would have all theat important stuff in her car but whatever) so the police impounded her car and she let it sit in there for a while and never told us and she let it sit there until they finally tookeverything out of it and probably thre it away and sold her car at an auction. Yeah so that's my story our poor little girl has no more baby memories to carry on and show her kids because her mom lost it. That's why I really think that this would be a great gift for us. :) Well I have a horror story for you!! My hubby and I have been together for 6 years now and I have a beautiful stepdaughter that is 8 years old and my husband and her mother split up when she was 1 1/2 yaers old. Well my husband is a WONDERFUL dad and he spend so much time with her holding her all though the night and waking up and feeding her all night long and doing all the great things that mom’s do and dad’s a suppose to do, while her mother did nothing and decided that she was to young for a daughter and went out every night all night. So as my husband spend all this time taking care of his beautiful little girl he wrote every single thing down that she did from the second she was born to her first word which was fan LOL because she loved to stare at the fan and her dad would say “FAN” over and over. Her first smile, how gasses she was to how she loved to run in the corner to go poop LOL. So anyways great memories that of course he can remember and I can since I was told eveything, but it would be a great thing to pass on to her when she gets old enough but Unforturely her mother (which is a awful person and we won’t even go there) took the book when she moved out and was driving with out a license and got pulled over and had all kinds of things in her trunk, whick inclued her baby book and all of her baby pictures and all the really important stuff even her social security card (Who knows why she would have all theat important stuff in her car but whatever) so the police impounded her car and she let it sit in there for a while and never told us and she let it sit there until they finally tookeverything out of it and probably thre it away and sold her car at an auction. Yeah so that’s my story our poor little girl has no more baby memories to carry on and show her kids because her mom lost it. That’s why I really think that this would be a great gift for us. :)

]]> By: Hanne http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-216 Hanne Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:31:54 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-216 My baby book stinks because I never had one. I have two older brothers and then my twin brother so my moms hands were full when it came to being able to do any crafty things. Now that I'm going to be having my first baby my husband and I really want to have a baby book to put all of our memories in since he's a Marine and deploys all the time so our memories will need to be in a book especially since we will never know whats gonna happen. I have seen other peoples who have baby books and it makes my husband and I a bit jealous. When he was growing up, his house burned down when he was about 5 so his family doesn't really have any baby pictures of him. So it would really be a treat for us to get one for our child and for it to just be perfect. My older brothers baby books look good, i just wish I had one. But I wont make my parents mistake of not making one for my child. No matter what it takes. My baby book stinks because I never had one. I have two older brothers and then my twin brother so my moms hands were full when it came to being able to do any crafty things. Now that I’m going to be having my first baby my husband and I really want to have a baby book to put all of our memories in since he’s a Marine and deploys all the time so our memories will need to be in a book especially since we will never know whats gonna happen.
I have seen other peoples who have baby books and it makes my husband and I a bit jealous. When he was growing up, his house burned down when he was about 5 so his family doesn’t really have any baby pictures of him. So it would really be a treat for us to get one for our child and for it to just be perfect. My older brothers baby books look good, i just wish I had one. But I wont make my parents mistake of not making one for my child. No matter what it takes.

]]> By: Sandra http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-210 Sandra Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:53:40 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-210 I cut corners on my second daughter's baby book, which I vowed I wouldn't do after I skimped on my first daughter's book. But, I just couldn't bring myself to pay the going rate for the ones I REALLY wanted - the custom designed, "upholstery"-looking, monogrammed ones. So I settled. The ones I have now are so cutesy, cardboard-y, generic, with "fill-in-the blank" pages. They feel very "manufactured" and impersonal even after I put in my daughters' information. I guess I just want their books to be SO special since they are so meaningful: they're supposed to summarize the first years of these precious miracles of life, and I feel that they don't help capture them - who they are, what they represent to us. It just feels like we're filling out questionnaires, and we're restricted in providing the "answers" into about 20 words or less so that they fit into the allotted spaces. If I could do it over again, I would select books for my daughters that are more personal somehow, of higher quality, classic, timeless and unique... I cut corners on my second daughter’s baby book, which I vowed I wouldn’t do after I skimped on my first daughter’s book. But, I just couldn’t bring myself to pay the going rate for the ones I REALLY wanted – the custom designed, “upholstery”-looking, monogrammed ones. So I settled. The ones I have now are so cutesy, cardboard-y, generic, with “fill-in-the blank” pages. They feel very “manufactured” and impersonal even after I put in my daughters’ information. I guess I just want their books to be SO special since they are so meaningful: they’re supposed to summarize the first years of these precious miracles of life, and I feel that they don’t help capture them – who they are, what they represent to us. It just feels like we’re filling out questionnaires, and we’re restricted in providing the “answers” into about 20 words or less so that they fit into the allotted spaces. If I could do it over again, I would select books for my daughters that are more personal somehow, of higher quality, classic, timeless and unique…

]]> By: Amanda http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-208 Amanda Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:03:03 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-208 I was given a baby book from my Dad's new wife, that has no taste or even knows my taste. I even like plain things, an all pink book would have worked. Instead I got an over the top pink, fuffy, lace, teddy bears, gingam little girl baby book. I had the smarts to sell it and buy a new plain pink one. I was given a baby book from my Dad’s new wife, that has no taste or even knows my taste. I even like plain things, an all pink book would have worked. Instead I got an over the top pink, fuffy, lace, teddy bears, gingam little girl baby book. I had the smarts to sell it and buy a new plain pink one.

]]> By: Dakota Kenyon http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-202 Dakota Kenyon Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:56:50 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-202 Where to start… Well, my baby book was bought for me while I was in the hospital after I gave birth, since I was never given a baby shower. Therefore, I really had no say in what I wanted in the book that would be holding the memories of my pregnancy. I ended up with a nuetral book, and I know I should be greatful, but I really wanted people to embrace my daughter as a girl. Then there is the fact that it is a book meant for two parents. Her father doesn’t deserve a place in her baby book. He left me while I was pregnant at 16 years old for another woman with 3 kids. My daughter is such a better person than he is, and I really don’t want her to be haunted with the thought that her father doesn’t care about her, so I would really love a single-mom book. The icing on the cake is that when her father came back here one night, he ripped many pages out of the book in a drunken rampage. My memories will always be in my heart, but a baby book is the only thing I can give to her when she gets older to prove that she has always been my favorite person, through everything. P.S. I think I filled the last comment out wrong, so I just posted another one! Thanks. Where to start…
Well, my baby book was bought for me while I was in the hospital after I gave birth, since I was never given a baby shower. Therefore, I really had no say in what I wanted in the book that would be holding the memories of my pregnancy. I ended up with a nuetral book, and I know I should be greatful, but I really wanted people to embrace my daughter as a girl.
Then there is the fact that it is a book meant for two parents. Her father doesn’t deserve a place in her baby book. He left me while I was pregnant at 16 years old for another woman with 3 kids. My daughter is such a better person than he is, and I really don’t want her to be haunted with the thought that her father doesn’t care about her, so I would really love a single-mom book.
The icing on the cake is that when her father came back here one night, he ripped many pages out of the book in a drunken rampage. My memories will always be in my heart, but a baby book is the only thing I can give to her when she gets older to prove that she has always been my favorite person, through everything.

P.S. I think I filled the last comment out wrong, so I just posted another one!
Thanks.

]]> By: Dakota Kenyon http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-201 Dakota Kenyon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:05:23 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-201 Where to start... Well, my baby book was bought for me while I was in the hospital after I gave birth, since I was never given a baby shower. Therefore, I really had no say in what I wanted in the book that would be holding the memories of my pregnancy. I ended up with a nuetral book, and I know I should be greatful, but I really wanted people to embrace my daughter as a girl. Then there is the fact that it is a book meant for two parents. Her father doesn't deserve a place in her baby book. He left me while I was pregnant at 16 years old for another woman with 3 kids. My daughter is such a better person than he is, and I really don't want her to be haunted with the thought that her father doesn't care about her, so I would really love a single-mom book. The icing on the cake is that when her father came back here one night, he ripped many pages out of the book in a drunken rampage. My memories will always be in my heart, but a baby book is the only thing I can give to her when she gets older to prove that she has always been my favorite person, through everything. Where to start…
Well, my baby book was bought for me while I was in the hospital after I gave birth, since I was never given a baby shower. Therefore, I really had no say in what I wanted in the book that would be holding the memories of my pregnancy. I ended up with a nuetral book, and I know I should be greatful, but I really wanted people to embrace my daughter as a girl.
Then there is the fact that it is a book meant for two parents. Her father doesn’t deserve a place in her baby book. He left me while I was pregnant at 16 years old for another woman with 3 kids. My daughter is such a better person than he is, and I really don’t want her to be haunted with the thought that her father doesn’t care about her, so I would really love a single-mom book.
The icing on the cake is that when her father came back here one night, he ripped many pages out of the book in a drunken rampage. My memories will always be in my heart, but a baby book is the only thing I can give to her when she gets older to prove that she has always been my favorite person, through everything.

]]> By: Noel http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-195 Noel Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:12:42 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-195 We too are victims of the Stinky Baby Book Syndrome. Ours has a picture of a teddy bear holding balloons and a sweet pastel blue sign that says, "It's a Boy!". Very cute, yes. The problem is that our baby was definitely not a boy! I tried embellishing the outside with pinks and lavenders to make it look more gender neutral. I also tried to cover up the little blue sign. Rather clever, I thought to myself. However these efforts were all in vain - instead I have a baby book clearly meant for a boy that looks like a pink diaper cake exploded all over it. My inner scrapbooking diva cries every time I look at the disaster baby book... Must...find...replacement... We too are victims of the Stinky Baby Book Syndrome. Ours has a picture of a teddy bear holding balloons and a sweet pastel blue sign that says, “It’s a Boy!”. Very cute, yes. The problem is that our baby was definitely not a boy! I tried embellishing the outside with pinks and lavenders to make it look more gender neutral. I also tried to cover up the little blue sign. Rather clever, I thought to myself. However these efforts were all in vain – instead I have a baby book clearly meant for a boy that looks like a pink diaper cake exploded all over it.

My inner scrapbooking diva cries every time I look at the disaster baby book…

Must…find…replacement…

]]> By: Alexis http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-192 Alexis Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:47:27 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-192 Not only is it geared towards the stereotypical family (which we don't have) it makes biased assumptions about breastfeeding. AND the binding fell apart so it's in pieces. Help! Not only is it geared towards the stereotypical family (which we don’t have) it makes biased assumptions about breastfeeding. AND the binding fell apart so it’s in pieces.

Help!

]]> By: babysakes http://babysakes.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/my-baby-book-stinks/#comment-183 babysakes Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:50:02 +0000 http://babysakes.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-183 Hmmm... that is a tough one! I guess you couldn't exactly return it with "Daddy" crossed out of all the pages either! If your sister-in-law was shopping in the stores, it was probably impossible for her to find a parental gender neutral album. We give her points for perseverance and um... creativity! Hmmm… that is a tough one! I guess you couldn’t exactly return it with “Daddy” crossed out of all the pages either! If your sister-in-law was shopping in the stores, it was probably impossible for her to find a parental gender neutral album. We give her points for perseverance and um… creativity!

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