NICU

Scrapbooking Your Baby’s Milestones

Scrapbooking about your baby’s milestones in the NICU can be a great way to record your baby’s experience as a Neonatal ICU infant.  Not only does scrapbooking help record memories and milestones, but it can also be therapeutic as well.

Having an infant in the NICU can be hard at times, and it can be difficult to focus on other life tasks.  Scrapbooking about your baby can help take the edge off the NICU experience, yet still focus on your baby. 

Here are some milestone ideas to scrapbook about, and remember lots and lots of pictures help!:

• First day of life
• First time being held by mom, dad, and other family members
• First time to meet siblings
• First time to touch
• First time to open eyes
• First time to cry
• First time to change diaper
• First time to wear clothes
• First time with no tubes, wires, or IVs
• Surgeries
• Medications
• Respiratory Management (ventilators, CPAP, nasal canula)
• Radiology Imaging (X-rays, CT scans, sonograms)
• Bed graduation from isolette to crib
• Feeding graduations (TPN, gavage, bottle)
• Kangaroo Care
• Length and head circumference measurements
• Weight Gains
• Developmental milestones
• NICU graduation (to home or to a step-down unit)