Make a pregnancy day-by-day calendar to document your pregnancy experience. The pregnancy day-by-day calendar is a useful way to track physical, emotion and spiritual changes during pregnancy. The pregnancy day-by-day calendar may also be beneficial for helping you communicate with your doctor. After the baby is born, the pregnancy day-by-day calendar can become the first section of a baby scrapbook.
1. Pregnancy Day-by-day Calendar and Journal
There are many different ways to create a pregnancy day-by-day calendar. The type you choose will depend on your lifestyle, and which is easiest for you. If you like to write and make notes, purchase a calendar or journal book which has a page for each day.
You can write notes and thoughts in the calendar or journal each day. The pregnancy day-by-day calendar or journal can be carried around with you during the day. Or, take a few moments each morning or each evening to document details about the pregnancy.
Because pregnancy does not coincide with when calendars and dated journals area available, you may have to make your own pregnancy day-by-day calendar. You can make a pregnancy day-by-day calendar with a blank notebook, or with any blank pieces of paper.
2. Pregnancy Day-by-day Calendar for the Wall
Use a ruler, and a pencil to create a blank calendar grid. Then use a black marker to go over the lines to make them dark. Make nine copies of the blank calendar grid. Then use a calendar to write in the months and the dates.
You will also need nine pieces of large, legal-sized paper. Attach the one month of the calendar to the bottom half of the paper. Use the top half for notes about the pregnancy that do not fit in the grids.
Or, use an online pregnancy calendar to print out information and details about what to expect during each week, month and trimester of pregnancy.
3. Pregnancy Day-by-day Calendar Binder
You could also make a calendar binder, which combines the Pregnancy Day-by-day Calendar and journal idea. The binder can be more private than the calendar you hang on the wall.
You need a pretty binder. Also purchase some index dividers. Add a monthly calendar to each section. Add notes, ideas and thoughts.
What to Write in the Pregnancy Day-by-day Calendar
For each day in the pregnancy day-by-day calendar, there are certain items to track.
Write down any and all doctor’s appointments. Leave room for any related notes or ultrasound photos. Keep appointment cards and other small mementos, which you can use later in a baby book.
Also take the time to mark pregnancy milestones, including the beginning of the second trimester and the third trimester.
Some details to include in the pregnancy day-by-day calendar include which foods you may be craving, or which foods you may no longer be able to tolerate. This information will be interesting later on, to a young child.
Also write down your mood for each day, and how you feel physically. Keep track of your weight, but don’t stress about it.
Keep a list of possible baby names, for both genders. It’s fun to see how your list may change, and what your baby might have been called.
Use the pregnancy day-by-day calendar to note any ideas you have for decorating a baby nursery. Also write down what you are looking forward to most when the baby is born.
