A personalised book about a new baby in the family

When a baby comes home, the rhythm of the whole family changes. The nights get shorter, the visitors more frequent, and suddenly there is a tiny person everyone talks quietly around. This book is the baby's own: a welcome book about how the family waited and welcomed them, the first weeks with the family's faces all around, to read aloud long before the words mean anything. If your child is already older, it becomes the story of when they were born and came home.

The baby is the main character: the waiting, the day the baby arrived, the first days at home, the first bath, the first walk in the pram, everyone who comes to say hello. It becomes a welcome book the family can read aloud straight away and that your child can leaf through later to see how it all began. A child who has already grown can have the same book afterwards, as the story of when they were born.

If the book is about an older child getting a brother or sister instead, choose the Big brother or sister theme. There the older child is at the centre, gets to hold the baby and discovers that there is still room on a lap. If you would like to give the book to a newborn, there is more under newborns and christenings.

Put in what you want to remember: the name and why you chose it, the date, who held the baby first, a song that always settled them. If the baby joined the family through adoption, arrived to a single parent or to two mums or two dads, write it the way you talk about it at home. The book follows your story, not a template.

Small things become big memories over time: how the baby lay in someone's arms, which song was sung at bedtime, who changed the first nappy and laughed. Brothers and sisters, grandparents and the family pet all have room in the pictures, so that later on the baby can see who was waiting for them.

A newborn cannot follow the plot, but hears the voice, the rhythm and the calm of whoever is reading. That is why short, repeated sentences work best when the book is about the baby.

If the baby is already older when the book is read, it becomes a memory instead: a three- or four-year-old loves to hear what it was like when they were tiny themselves, who held them first and what everyone said. Keep a copy for the day the baby can point at the pictures themselves.

You fill in the child's name, age and what they like, and upload a photo. The story about a new baby in the family is written for your very own child, and the thirteen pictures and the cover are drawn from the photo in the style you choose. Brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents or the pet can come along, up to five characters. If you would like to include something that has happened lately, a trip or a lost tooth, just write it and it is woven in.

The eBook is ready a few minutes after payment, and you can change the text and ask for new pictures. Then order it as an A4 hardback book. Start creating the book or read about the prices. Would you like to see a finished book before you decide? Browse our example books.