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11 Best Pregnancy Journals to Help You Be Prepared

Updated Jul 14, 2019 by Elna

Get the best pregnancy journals to track week-by-week your milestones!

As pregnant mothers, we all have good intentions of keeping track of everything but even during pregnancy life is still busy.

Between remembering when appointments are and what to buy in preparation for the baby, the mere thought of recording the actual experience of pregnancy doesn’t occur to us.

Thankfully, there are many wonderful journals that will help you do both! You can keep track of your weight and symptoms as well as those special pregnancy moments all in one book.

Here are some pregnancy journals that will help you prepare not only for birth, but for capturing the unique experience to cherish for years to come.

1. The Belly Book: A Nine-Month Journal for You and Your Growing Belly

While the experience of pregnancy varies from woman to woman, there is one undeniable truth: your belly is going to grow.

The Belly Book focuses on celebrating that journey.

It is divided by trimester and provides space to document your belly’s growth, your ultrasounds as well as prompts for writing about morning sickness, food cravings and more.

This interactive guide is the perfect way to preserve the cherished (and not so cherished) memories of pregnancy using an interactive format and some well-needed humor!

2. Happy Pregnancy Journal

The Happy Pregnancy Journal is a daily journal that encourages you to jot down your feelings, symptoms and thoughts each day. Without prompts, this beautiful journal gives you the creative space to write whatever you want.

It’s also handy for keeping track of your weight and you diet as well as your hospital bag packing check list and any to-do lists that will make your baby’s arrival a smooth endeavor.

3. Butterflies & Hiccups: A Guided Pregnancy Journal for the New Mom-to-Be

This journal not only allows you to document doctor’s visits, baby’s development and symptoms but it also contains though-provoking questions in order to capture the emotional experience of pregnancy.

Despite the discomfort pregnancy causes, there is a sweet essence to the entire experience that this journal helps to capture beautifully. Divided by month, Butterflies & Hiccups takes the guesswork out of how to truly document this important time of your life.

4. Erin Condren Pregnancy Planner

This fashionable and functional pregnancy planner is perfect for recording precious moments and memories! Each page features a pop of color as well as prompts and spaces to make tracking your pregnancy a breeze.

The Erin Condren Pregnancy Planner comes with a sticker pack that includes fun sayings like “it’s a girl” and “it’s a boy” as well as functional stickers to help you keep track of important information.

5. The What to Expect Pregnancy Journal & Organizer

The What to Expect Pregnancy Journal & Organizer is a great companion to the bestseller What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Based on a book that provides insight on the realities of pregnancy, this journal not only provides helpful tidbits on the experience of pregnancy but also allows you to journal memorable moments and keep track of appointments, shopping lists and more!

In the end, you will have a beautiful memento filled with the kind of details you may forget as you progress into motherhood.

6. Bump to Birthday, Pregnancy & First Year Journal

Bump to Birthday combines your pregnancy and your baby’s first year into one beautifully designed and illustrated journal. It’s the perfect way to document your transition from being pregnant into motherhood.

In the first part of the journal, you can write down week-by-week experiences such as your growing baby bump and even your hopes and dreams for your little one. Once the baby is born, you can write in those amazing firsts such as your baby’s first smile, first step and first Christmas!

7. The Big Sibling Book: Baby’s First Year According to ME

If you have a child at home anticipating the arrival of a new sibling then The Big Sibling Book is the perfect way to help your little prepare for the big changes! This journal features easy-to-answer interview questions for your child as well as sticker activities and pages for recording your new baby’s first moments.

Not only is this a great gift for an older sibling, but it will make an incredible keepsake for when your baby grows up.

8. Expecting You: My Pregnancy Journal

Expecting You is not so much a journal as a personal letter to your future little one. In it, you can record your thoughts, feelings and special observations during pregnancy. Prompts such as “The first time I felt you move was…” creates a deep connection between your experiences during pregnancy and your child.

Imagine the day you can pass this gift off to your child and allow them to share in the experience that brought them into this world.

9. The Pregnancy Journal: A Day-to-Day Guide to a Healthy and Happy Pregnancy

The Pregnancy Journal provides a thorough template in which to track day by day how you feel and how your baby is developing.

This journal doesn’t focus on lengthy prompts and instead allows you to write in your weight, appetite mood, baby moods and other memorable details.

Apart from providing journal space, The Pregnancy Journal captures your interest with self-care and baby-care tips as well as fascinating anecdotes about how mothers in historical times experienced pregnancy.

It also has space for labor and delivery details and a small folder for pictures and important documents.

10. Planning for Joy

Planning for Joy is a combination planner and journal that will help guide you through tracking medical information, daily water intake as well as your experience through the first, second and third trimester of your pregnancy.

Tabbed sections make it easy to navigate this journal and it includes 2 pages of full-color stickers to personalize this keepsake. Once the baby arrives, you can track special milestones on the monthly calendars during his or her first year.

11. Bump for Joy

Beautifully designed and organized, Bump for Joy is a guided journal that allows you to write down your thoughts and create useful checklists trimester by trimester. It’s a great journal for cataloging the progress from before conception to birth.

It features pockets throughout the journal and pages dedicated to displaying photographs. The journal design is fun and easy to follow so you don’t have to spend a lot of time recording these important memories.

The Best Pregnancy Journals For You

There ya go mama!

I personally like the Erin Condren Pregnancy Planner because it’s just so darn cute looking! But, choose a planner that works for you!

Over to you –

Are you using a pregnancy planner to track your week-by-week progress?

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Elna is a mom to twins who blogs and writes for a living. She loves all things mom. While she's not blogging, you can find Elna meal planning, organizing and helping other moms in her Facebook group, Mom to Mompreneurs.

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