CM's, do you do a journal for babies

[Saz73]

I was thinking about doing a daily journal for a 5mth mindee. When do you show the parents, daily or at the end of the week, would you include any photos' and do you given them typed up or is handwritten ok.

When Jess was in Nursery, all the under 1's had a daily hand-written log with what they had done at certain times - eg milk/snack/food/sleeps/nappy changes etc and what activities had been done

It was a very simple A4 page with it all on.

We had this at the end of each day/session

from a parents view dd had a exercise book at nursery with when she eat what she ate, sllep played with, what friends she had been playing with and i loved it i felt as though i could talk about her day with her even though i wasnt there because of the diary, and she is 3 and loves when i read them to her now!

Same here
i'm a c/m and write on a a4 piece of paper what the child has eatern, slept etc
i also do another book which parebts get when the child leaves of hand/foot prints, paintings, photos etc of their life here
i also video the children every so often and the dvd goes with the book and photos

I use a contact book with my mindees. I write
when and what they eat - meals and snacks
sleep times and how they settled
nappy changes
general temperment that day
times and location of activities, ie playgroups
anything they partularly enjoyed doing, ie roaring with laughter on the swing.
I then ask parents to write in the book before they bring the baby. They include how they slept the previous night, how they've been eating, if they've been unwell or anything relevent.
I think this is really helpful to both sides and makes a lovely keepsake of they baby's days for the future