Did you keep any of your childrens baby stuff for when they're older?

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I'm slightly panicking because I haven't kept anything for my first from when she was a baby. I only have a blanket as I grew up parents who were hoarders and it just freaks me out keeping stuff. I don't want dd thinking why I didn't keep anything from her baby years.

No. I have hardly any storage space as it is (live in a flat) so I'm not keeping unnecessary stuff hanging around. I highly doubt DS will care.

Nothing very much. I kept all of the newborn baby clothes only until I had finished having babies (I had 3 - in May 1995, December 1998 and July 2002). Once DD3 had outgrown them I charity shopped them all.

I have my own photos of each of them and all of their school photos. I didn't keep much school work or "art" stuff or there soon would have been no room for us in the house.

I have a memory box for each child with all the important sentimental things in, hospital tags, hair from first cut, hospital outfit etc. i kept their first teddies and some of their baby outfits and blankets, more because I’m a sentimental fool and not because I intend to reuse or pass on. It’s ok to not keep anything, you don’t need stuff for memories. Most people I find prefer looking at childhood photos than stuff. My parents didn’t keep anything of mine and it never bothered me.

Her hospital name band, first shoes and christening dress that an old doll wears.

I've got a small box each for DTs, with tiny baby gro, first hat, doll knitted for them in NICU, namebands, some mothers day cards and a couple of pieces of primary school work.

I don't keep much. My mum is currently in the process of clearing out her loft, giving boxes of photos, clothes, school reports, all sorts of shit and it is pretty much all going in the bin.

Things currently stored away despite DS being now too old for or uninterested in anymore:

• Some beloved children's books - a few are just very beautiful illustrated hardbacks, others are falling apart because they were read a million times. Even if DS doesn't have children they will someday be passed on to someone small - nieces, nephews, best friend's children...

• one tiny T-shirt that I adored on DS and couldn't bear to give away

I have a lot of his artwork but I am planning to (one day, I swear!) pay for that service where you box it all up, post them off, and a studio properly photographs/scans the pieces and arranges it all into a photobook. It's actually something I could do myself, if I bought a few bits like proper lighting and a backdrop, but I hate the process of finding a decent printer so will pay someone to do it all. Then I'll keep the book for ourselves.

I haven’t kept anything from their babyhood apart from the plastic hospital bracelets when they were born.

I have a memory box with a few of his little clothes, hand and footprints from when he was under a month old, his hospital bracelet, his first tiny socks, a first size nappy, his scan photos and a couple of his favourite little baby toys 🥰
We also have kept his first walkers shoes and his first pair of converse.
I also made a frame with his hat from the hospital, a feeding syringe, hand and footprints in, a hospital bracelet and a photo 🥰

These things are for me to keep though!! He can look at them with me if he wants to though 😁 I wish my parents had kept stuff 🤷‍♀️

I’ve still got the nightie I was wearing when they were all born.