The first week after a birth is a blur. Messages come in, cards land on the doormat, flowers arrive at the door, and between feeds you try to let everyone know that all is well. In exactly that week, the week you'll most long to go back to later, you have the least time to record anything.
A digital birth announcement solves this nicely: one link you share, where all the congratulations gather by themselves.
What is a digital birth announcement?
It's a web page you share instead of (or alongside) the paper card. It shows the name, date of birth, weight and length, the time of birth, a photo and a message from you. Anyone you send the link to can open it straight away in their browser.
You share it the way you share everything: on WhatsApp, by email, or as a QR code on the paper card for the people who prefer that.
The guestbook is the real gift
The part that makes the difference is the guestbook. Everyone who visits the page can leave a message: congratulations, a memory of their own first weeks with a baby, a wish for the future.
Messages like these normally arrive in ten different places. A text on a Sunday evening, a card with a scribble on it, something someone said when they came to visit that you've forgotten a month later. In a guestbook they're all together, with name and date. Anything you want to hold on to, you add to your child's timeline as a memory with one click.
Years from now, your child can read back what their grandmother wrote in the week they were born. A box of cards in the loft rarely does that.
Privacy: the page isn't on Google
A birth page doesn't belong in a search engine, and it doesn't end up in one. The link contains a long, unguessable code, the page isn't indexed and you can take it offline at any time. You decide who gets the link.
An announcement on Instagram or Facebook is a different story: there, your child's first photo sits permanently on a platform that has its own goals for it. If you'd like to read more about that, this article on children's photos on social media goes into it in more depth.
Ready in five minutes
- Fill in the page. Photo, date of birth, weight, length, time of birth and a message from you.
- Share the link. In the family group chat, by email, or as a QR code on the card.
- Keep the messages. Anything you love goes into your child's timeline with one click.
Family can even record a spoken message: to play now, or sealed in a time capsule that only opens on the 18th birthday. Grandma's voice, kept for later. You'll be glad afterwards that someone thought of it.
And then it keeps growing
A birth page is usually just the beginning. Then come the first laugh, the first tooth, the first day at school. If you keep those in the same place, by the end of the year you'll have a complete story, without having spent a single evening sorting things out.
Looking for a present for someone else who has just had a baby? You can also give Ouderliefde as a gift, optionally with that first yearbook included.
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