Personalised Baby Books, Baby Journals & Photo Albums

Thoughtful keepsakes for recording baby’s milestones, memories and little stories, made to treasure for a lifetime. Discover our traditional baby book and collection of baby journals below. Personalise for the perfect Baby Shower gift.

Personalised Baby Books, Baby Journals & Photo Albums
Best Baby Journals in New Zealand

5 Reasons Our Baby Journals Are Loved Across New Zealand

Forget Me Not is the most trusted New Zealand Baby Journal brand - after 10 Years in Business.

  1. Designed for real life. Gentle prompts guide you without overwhelming you, making memory-keeping feel achievable.
  2. Premium linen covers. Timeless, durable and beautifully finished with gold foil personalisation.
  3. Flexible format. Start at any age. Newborn, toddler or beyond. There is no pressure to follow a strict timeline.
  4. Made to be treasured. High quality paper and lay-flat binding make writing and adding photographs easy.
  5. A meaningful New Zealand gift. A thoughtful baby shower or newborn gift that becomes a lifelong keepsake.


If you are searching for the best baby journal in New Zealand, our personalised baby books are created to be both beautiful and practical, so your memories are preserved with care.

Somewhere between the hospital bag and the first day of school, a few thousand small things happen that nobody writes down. The word she made up for the cat. What he said in the car that you swore you would remember. The weight of them asleep on your chest at four in the afternoon.

Our baby books and personalised journals exist for exactly those. Not the tidy milestones a chart can hold — the specific, odd, ordinary details that vanish first and matter most later.

Every book is bound in linen with gold foil and personalised before it reaches you. We have been making them since 2015, from home in Tāmaki Makaurau, and we personalise by hand every second day.

Which baby book should I choose?

Your First Years is our watercolour-illustrated baby book covering birth to five — 259 reviews at five stars. The to my daughter and to my son journals have no fixed end date, so you can still be writing when they are fifteen. If you are still expecting, the Pregnancy Journal covers the forty weeks before.

Can you emboss a te reo Māori name?

Yes, with macrons — Ā Ē Ī Ō Ū and ā ē ī ō ū. We were the first company in New Zealand to offer macron embossing, and we set them most weeks. Whānau is one of the most requested words we emboss. More on how macron embossing works.

What if I have already missed the newborn months?

Start anyway. Our journals use gold foil prompt stickers rather than dated pages, so there is no month you were supposed to fill in. Begin at six weeks or six years, answer the prompts that apply, skip the ones that do not. A half-finished book in your handwriting is worth more than a perfect one nobody opened.

What should I put in a baby keepsake book?

The hospital name band, the card that came with the flowers, a lock of hair, the scan photo. Our Inkless Print Kit takes hand and footprints with no ink on skin, and the Bespoke Keepsake Album & Box gives the loose pieces somewhere to live.

Is a baby book a good gift?

It is the one thing at a baby shower nobody else brings. Personalised in gold foil, so it arrives already theirs. The Pregnancy Journal & Baby Book bundle covers the bump and the first five years together, and Grandparents Journals let them keep their own record.