Volume One
How to make a baby book from your camera roll in one evening
You have four thousand photographs and no baby book. A method for turning a camera roll into a first-year baby book in one evening: pick by month, keep the words, print it flat.
The blog
Notes on baby books and the first year.
What to write, what to keep, how the book gets printed, and what tired parents actually manage. Short, useful, and written by the people making Volume One.
Baby book ideas for the first year, month by month
A baby book is a year of small chapters, not one big project. What to keep from each month of the first year, from the hospital wristband to the birthday cake.
The first-year baby milestones list, without the pressure
A calm list of first-year baby milestones by month, what is normal, what is wide, and how to record them in a baby book without turning your child's first year into a scoreboard.
Layflat or casewrap? Choosing the binding for a baby photo book
The binding decides whether a photograph can run across two pages and whether the book survives a decade of bedtimes. What layflat and casewrap actually mean, what each costs, and which to choose for a baby photo book.
What to write in a baby book: 40 prompts that take ten seconds
The blank page is why most baby books stop at month three. Here are forty questions that take ten seconds to answer, sorted by month, that make a first-year baby book worth reading at twenty.