Free 19-page guide
How to document your pregnancy journey, from bump to baby’s first year.
Documenting pregnancy doesn’t have to be overwhelming. In this free guide, professional photographer Lauren Chima shares five simple ways to capture the moments, milestones and memories you’ll want to hold onto.
Why we created this guide
You think you’ll remember it all. Then life gets busy.
When professional photographer Lauren Chima and her husband Emmanuel found out they were expecting their first child, they made a pact to document the journey so they could one day hand those memories down.
During pregnancy, they wrote down the little things they bought, planned a bump shoot and wrote love letters to their unborn baby.
Then their daughter arrived.
Suddenly, finding time to record milestones, organise photos and preserve the small moments became much harder.
That experience helped inspire Makia’s Pregnancy Journal — and this guide was created to share some of what they learned along the way.
Five simple ways to preserve the story as it happens.
You don’t need to document everything. You just need a simple way to notice what matters, keep it somewhere safe and make it easy to come back to later.
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Capture the moments you’ll want to remember
Think ahead about the moments you may want to photograph or record, from your changing bump and baby shower to birth, newborn days and your baby’s first birthday. The guide helps you decide what matters to you before those moments pass.
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Create one simple system for milestones
Memories can quickly become scattered between camera rolls, notes apps, notebooks and two people’s heads. Lauren shares why it helps to choose one simple, portable system for recording milestones as they happen — and making sure it’s backed up.
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Get your photos under control
Thousands of photos are easy to take. Finding the ones that matter years later is much harder. Learn how to think about backing up your images, sorting favourites as you go and making sure the photos you love don’t disappear into your camera roll forever.
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Bring your memories together
Photos tell part of the story. So do milestones, thoughts, little observations and the things you swear you’ll never forget — even playful guesses like your Old Wives’ Tales quiz result. The guide explores simple ways to keep those pieces together rather than trying to reconstruct everything years later.
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Protect the keepsake you create
Once you’ve collected these memories, how will you make sure they last? Lauren covers backups, physical and digital copies, protecting against loss or damage, and thinking ahead about who you may eventually want to share your baby’s story with.
Keep the full guide handy as you go.
The 19-page ebook goes deeper into each of the five ideas and includes practical activities to help you decide what to capture, how to organise it and how to protect it.