Baby book

Baby books are scrapbooks used by parents to track their children's development.

Baby books started appearing more frequently in homes in the 1910s but gained popularity in the succeeding decades.

[1] Baby books can track a child's development or mark developmental milestones.

Some books are pre-fabricated with fill-in-the-blank areas and places to put special mementoes, such as a lock of hair from the baby's first haircut, a hospital bracelet, birth announcements, or cards from the baby shower.

UCLA has a collection of baby books dating back to 1882 used for the study of the history of childhood, family, art, medicine, architecture, and other disciplines.

Stevenson's Baby Book; Being the Record of the Sayings and Doings of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, son of Thomas Stevenson, C.E. and Margaret Isabella Balfour or Stevenson