[BabyAthena]

Okay, I am just now able to think about what to do with the sonogram pics and the preg. log book I have from our previous pregnancy. I was 12 weeks 3 days and therefore have pics with head, arms, legs you can see a full baby and I just can't look at them. However I cannot and will not throw them out. Don't know what to do in a situation like this since this was our first loss. What did you ladies do? Grateful for ideas.

Thank you.

[lex1078]

I have a memorial trunk where I keep everything. Of course there is more in there for the girls since I was much further along with them. I have no sono pictures from my recent loss as I was only 6 weeks but with my loss from last year, I was 9.5 weeks and have pictures. I put them in a small photo album and put it in the trunk. I keep my medical papers there and little trinkets for memories in there.

You could get a cute box to keep the u/s photo's and preg. log book also. I agree about keeping everything. One day you will look and cry and look and smile and go through a whole roller coaster of emotions, but will be grateful that you kept everything.

[MimiH]

I lost my baby at 10 weeks, but kept the ultrasound and pregnancy journal with my books on the book shelf. I am glad I didn't throw them.

[mom2njia]

I have a memory box, I was a little further along, so I have his ashes in there too. It is so hard to know what to do. Just do what you feel is best for you.

[MeganMomof5]

I have a cardboard box that I brought my things from the hospital home in when I had Ella...Inside I have her memory box and all the other things they gave me in the hospital...I never intended to use it to hold things, but I find myself putting things from my last pregnancy in it too....I hope to maybe get a nicer box eventually...I also put one of the ultrasound pictures of the baby in a frame and will hang it up on the wall where I have Ella's hand and foot prints (above my dresser where her urn is)...I actually don't have a hard time looking at my ultrasound pictures...They were happy memory's for me, and I don't want to forget that...I also look at Ella's pictures at least a couple times a week....they make me feel better.

[aitch]

It's weird - my MIL bought be a journal but I just couldn't bring myself to start it. Don't know why.

I have kept the valentine's card DH made me with the u/s picture of our LO. In it he told me how much they'd both love me forever. It's in the drawer next to my bed along with the only thing I bought - a single pacifier that was on sale a couple of days after we found out. Somehow it makes sense that I bought that now.

Anyway, those are all I have so in some ways I'm lucky but I do wish I had more to remember my LO by.

It's the only time I've ever been pregnant and I wish I remembered it better, enjoyed it more, savored every moment of knowing I was growing our baby inside me.

[missy123]

I made a scrapbook page for my baby. I cried the whole time making it and it did not come out good.... But I look at it now and am so grateful I have it Plus I put the extra things like the picture of the + pregnancy test and stuff in the envelope sleeve with the page.