Monthly milestone photos are a baby trend that is taken social media and the mumverse by storm…and we are here for it! They are such a fun and special way to hold onto some of your baby’s precious moments—and they are so sweet to look back on in the months and years to come. You can make these monthly milestone photoshoots as simple or as complicated as you want. They will be an adorable treasure no matter how much detail you put in, because after all, your baby is at the heart of it all. Here, cute and unique monthly baby photo inspiration just for you!
Heart. Melt. City! What a beautiful way to always remember just how tiny your baby looked during their first year. And because your baby will be in your arms for each milestone picture, there will be no rolling out of the shot! (Be sure to wear a consistent, neutral top, like the lacey cream blouse above.)
Pretty monthly banners are a super easy, cute, and contemporary way to celebrate each month of growth with your baby. Plus, a set like this takes all the heavy lifting out of the creativity equation. And that can be a relief, since getting your wiggly one to be still for baby milestone photos can be hard enough.
This is one yummy monthly baby picture idea! Here, a foodie mum utilised a pizza box and the concept of taking twelve slices to get a whole pie to track her little guy’s first year in photos. The clear benefit to this idea, of course, is pizza for the grownups!
Monthly Baby Picture Idea: Holidays of the First Year
Photo: Anna with Love
Take your baby's milestone photos with monthly holidays and other special days, like the start of a season, in mind. A few easy props or even just adding stickers in an app is just as special as going all out.
Not crafty? Do not worry! Simply buy items like these handmade plush moment-markers to help you set up Baby’s monthly milestone photos. You can even use the soft star, rainbow, and toy for daily playtime, nursery decor, and further photo ops down the line.
Keep Baby milestone photos simple and oh-so adorable by placing your little one on a soft white backdrop and illustrating their age with the corresponding number of props, like seven paper butterflies for 7 months old. Or use something like, say flower petals or candy canes, to create numerals. Easy!
Another great way to make monthly photos easy on you while also making sure they turn out beautifully for your baby's memory book: Get your hands on a set of blocks that can be reconfigured each month to track time as it passes.
Using flowers to represent your baby’s age is hippie-chic at its absolute finest. But if botanicals are not your thing, you can do something similar with seashells, blocks, postcards, tiny toy cars…anything really!
Watching them grow is so bittersweet, but doughnuts are just plain sweet! Like the pizza concept, work your way toward a dozen doughnuts (and months) with this delicious monthly baby photo idea. Bonus: Instead of culminating Baby’s first year with a cake smash, your tot can enjoy their first doughnut!
Movie and book buffs, Superhero lovers, Disney fanatics, and more will adore this fun idea for Baby photo of the month. Dress your lil nugget up as a different movie or book character each month of their first year and snap, snap away!
A beautiful way to mark your baby’s growth in their first year of life is to use the natural gifts each month bestows upon us. From berries and watermelons to pumpkins and pinecones, have fun creating nature-inspired monthly baby pictures.
Pinterest is positively bursting with inspiration for elaborate photoshoot themes for Baby milestone photos, many of which use blankets, bedsheets, and coloured paper as their main materials. For instance, the crocheted blanket, above, is a rainbow. A light blue sheet can be the start of an in-flight scene in the summer sky. A velvety red throw? It can be a stage curtain, of course!
Monthly Baby Picture Idea: Plush Pics
Place your sweet baby on the same blanket next to a favourite stuffed animal, like SNOObear, month after month. It is simple, it is sweet, and it is great fun to compare how big your baby has gotten next to their beloved plushy. (If you have got a lovable, baby-friendly pet, that will work, too!)
Timeless and neutral, these handmade wooden milestone signs from Etsy are a great way to mark the months as they pass. And after you are done photographing for the year, you can easily paint the month-to-month wood numbers, turning them into an inspired piece of learn-to-count baby room decor.
Placing your baby in the same chair month by month is an easy-peasy way to chart their growth…and effective, too! After all, the seat stays the same size, but your baby only gets bigger and bigger!
Any background will do and no props are needed for this straightforward and fun monthly baby photo idea. Just take a simple snap of your little one and upload it to an app like Little Nugget: Baby Milestones (£3.49, iPhone) or Baby Story (free, iPhone and Android), where you can add information like your baby’s height, weight, age, and so on. Alternatively, if you have Photoshop skills (like the mum responsible for the photos above), flex them with some DIY milestone fun!
Monthly Baby Picture Idea: Mod Markers
Photo and to purchase: Etsy
If rustic and natural are not for you, trade the trendy wood monthly milestone markers for something mod and unexpected, like these 4-inch acrylic discs that can be repurposed later for a funky photo display.
Since every month brings something to celebrate, why not blow up some festive balloons?! Tie the number of balloons that correspond to your baby’s age in months to a cosy chair you seat your baby in. (Six months old? Six balloons.) Or arrange small balloons into your baby's age (using double-sided tape to keep them together) and lay your baby down on a rug or blanket next to your creation.
Do not let a lack of time or artistic skills keep you from trying out creative monthly baby photo ideas. To get drawings like the ones featured here, send your shots to a pro who will add the illustrations of your choosing to your baby milestone pictures. (These cost £20 a pop or £200 for a year’s worth of milestones.)
Like the baby-in-a-chair milestone photos, shooting a monthly image of your little one in their SNOO, bassinet, or cot is a simple way to track their growth. (Adding a special rattle, stuffed toy, or dummy is a sweet way to remember what your baby loved at that point in time, too.) It is a good idea to keep blankets and outfits monochromatic so when you display your precious images together they look harmonious.
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