The What to Expect Pregnancy Journal & Organizer Diary – Organizer, January 18, 2007

This pregnancy journal is exactly what I was looking for! My big things I wanted was some guided journaling...so that not everything I'd write down would be free-hand. But then I did want some free-hand space too. This book does just that. There is a paper for each month with questions that you write your answers down to...just ordinary questions you'd find in most pregnancy journals. There is a spot on this monthly paper for a picture of yourself if you so wish, and there are spots in certain places in the journal for ultrasound pics. Then in between the monthly logs, there are week by week journaling entries for you to free-hand in whatever you'd like on a daily basis. There is not a ton of space for the daily entries, but for me, there doesn't need to be. I'm not journaling everyday events in these...just daily things that relate to the pregnancy only. So it works well.There are sections in the back where you can keep good track of every Dr. visit. There's also a section for logging your diet (not actually listing foods or calories, but putting hashmarks next to how many food groups you've eaten that day). And a section for logging your physical activity on a daily/weekly basis. Since I am still pregnant, I have not gotten to log anything the L&D section of it yet, but it looks very well laid out as well. If I remember right, there are a couple small areas that have pockets to put misc stuff in.Another thing I love about this book is that it is compact and small enough to easily take it with me to work and other places. I can just put it in my medium sized purse.Because I have so many pregnancy informational books that were given to me, I did NOT want a journal that was going to have a ton of pregnancy-related info in it. This book is just that.The book is a hard cover... I've been using it for a couple months now, and it's not all worn out or anything. The only dislike I have is the design of the front cover. As you can see, it's not anything cute or fancy, but... who cares? I didn't. I figured I could probably re-cover it later if I really wanted to.

Extremely useful little journal! Helped me a lot through pregnancy and is a cute journal to look back on. Helped quite a bit switching between multiple providers with a high risk pregnancy too!

With my first baby, I had a hard time remembering to write everything down, and I was taking a class, which answered a lot of my questions and taught me a lot. I still kept my journal with me all the time so if I did remember, I wrote in it.Now we're expecting #2, and I'm not taking a class. That being said, I was reading through my entries in the first one I had and I'm so glad I thought to jot down what I did. It's been extremely helpful to look back on some of the symptoms and the timeline. They say the best way to judge what your pregnancy will be like is to ask your mother- I think reading back on journal entries is a much better source. :D Well... for the second one, anyway.The journal is well organized, easy to fill out, and keeps me on track. Even though this is my second pregnancy, I still forget what questions to ask. I'm a list maker, so this was really nice to have on hand- the lists are already made. Do yourself a favor- get it.

So far throughout my pregnancy I have been trying to remember to write in a journal so that one day my daughter can look back and read what I was going through, what type of birth I decided on, etc. Unfortunately, I never got around to much until my 22nd week, but this journal makes it very easy to remember and WANT to write in it! It has questions that you answer about how you are feeling, your partner is feeling, how your body is changing, etc. I really enjoy the section in the back that allows you to track your baby's movements as well as what you eat and how much exercise you are getting. It makes creating a thorough birth plan easy with all of the thorough questions to ask your OBGYN or midwife. The only thing I was different is the spiral part of the notebook. The cover is connected to the back cover, making is so that the pages don't open all the way, just like a book. Other than that, I would strongly recommend this pregnancy journal to any and all mommies!

After finding out I was pregnant 4 years agter being told I wouldn't have children, I knew I had to record everything in case this was our only child. I searched online reviewing pregnancy journals for over a week before I settled on this one. I couldn't be happier with my purchase. There is a journal to record whatever you want from day to day, all organized by months and labled by the week you are on. There is a labor and birth journal (which I haven't gotten to use yet, but have read through a few times) that records everything from contractions to baby's birth info. And there is a third section of the book to record dr visits (very useful if you want to keep track of baby's heartbeat, and your blood pressure and weight gain), a shopping list for baby's nursery, what all to pack for your hospital stay, and of course the initial interviewing info for your dr, your baby's dr, and if you choose to hire a doula. This journal covers everything!