I lost my daughters baby book

[samanthasmom]

I have looked and looked everywhere and its gone. i have gone thru everything several times and i just cant find it. my dd is 4 next month and i have nothing. i dont remember her how old she was when she got her first tooth and in her book was one of those first yr calendar where i just wrote silly things she said or did. i have lost so much. i cant stop crying. i cant believe this..what am i going to do. i think it must have gotten thrown away somehow when we were moving rooms around.

[One_Girl]

That is the worst. It may be still be hiding somewhere though. My ex packed up the baby stuff in one of our first moves and when we arrived her photo album with her birth pictures was gone. I looked in everything for a long time and was sure it was gone. I was very upset and I had a very hard time letting go of my sadness. Last summer I found it when I was going through boxes in the attic to clear up some space.

[limabean]

Oh how awful! I would be heartbroken if that happened. Is there any chance it'll turn up somewhere? Would you or anyone else in the house really mistakenly toss it?

I'm so sorry.

[34me]

My kids are 16, 13 and 11. We lost everything in a fire almost 3 years ago. Allthe pictures I have left are the doubles I sent to family that they have sent back. It was the most devistating part of the fire. On a glass is half full note we have spent the last two years conciously making new memories.

I hope it turns up!

[JunipersMom]

I feel ya momma ~ my daughter is adopted and I had video taped the moment I first saw her, our 4 months in her birth country etc... and can not find any of the tapes... sucks big time.
But having had several family members and friends live through home fires etc, where they lost all their photos and memory books.. I just try and grasp on the times we have now and record those --

[samanthasmom]

thanks mamas. i guess that puts things into perspective for me.... at least it has really motivated me to go thru all of our crap and throw away or donate a bunch of stuff.

[annethcz]

While I understand that you're upset, I don't think your DD will be upset. That sounds like something that is much more important to you than it would be to her.

FWIW, none of my kids have baby books. I love them to pieces, but I'm not one to obsess over when their first tooth came in or how much they weighed when they were 6 months old. So far, none of them have cared about that info.

[limabean]

Originally Posted by annethcz

While I understand that you're upset, I don't think your DD will be upset. That sounds like something that is much more important to you than it would be to her.

FWIW, none of my kids have baby books. I love them to pieces, but I'm not one to obsess over when their first tooth came in or how much they weighed when they were 6 months old. So far, none of them have cared about that info.

There's a huge difference between not doing something in the first place because you're not that into it and spending lots of time/effort/thought doing something that's meaningful to you and then losing it. I do agree that baby books are mostly for the parents (I know mine are!), but that doesn't make it any less upsetting to lose all that irreplaceable stuff.