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Baby’s first smile… First blow of a kiss…
Favorite toys, songs and foods… every new parents fears forgetting these
endearing details. MyOwnLittleStory.com
(MyOwnLittleStory), the only online baby book with email reminders specific to
the baby's stages and current milestones, was created to help parents remember
and record the details of their child's life while the memories are still
fresh. The company’s exclusive Milestone
Memory System is a free service that tracks the child’s age and reminds the
parent, via email, to record the special stories of their baby’s life.
In a world where taking photos of your baby is
easy and instant, Kristin Coons,
founder of MyOwnLittleStory, was inspired to create and launch the site in 2011
to get rid of “baby book guilt” for those parents who feel embarrassed about
not having the time to create a baby book, but also to encourage new parents to
write the story that compliments the photos.
“Parents are busy in the day to day life of
raising kids and they are certain they will remember the stories later,” says
Kristin Coons. “Unfortunately, I learned the hard way, with my oldest child,
that those little details can be hard to remember even just a couple of years
later. I wanted to help parents journal their personal stories in an easy
to use format where they could write as little or as much as they wanted.”
HOW
IT WORKS: The four-step process makes online baby
booking as simple as responding to an email.
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Register – With
registration, MyOwnLittleStory is free to users for up to two years.
After two years, users are asked to print their storybook, purchase
a CD or pay a nominal storage fee: $15 for 6-months and $24 for a year. Those
who are "viewing" stories or "shopping" will continue to
have free accounts to view stories or shop.
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Remind – Baby’s
birth date is recorded during registration allowing MyOwnLittleStory to send an
email twice a month with a brief narrative of their baby’s current milestone to
prompt them to write down details.
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Record – Each
reminder e-mail has a link to directly to the baby's current milestone.
Click the link and start recording the stories to treasure for a
lifetime. Also, easily upload 1-4 photos to accompany the story on that
page. Or, click the snooze button and get another reminder in a week.
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Reminisce –
MyOwnLittleStory offers a professionally printed book that is bound in a linen
embossed hardcover made exclusively for its members (8.5” high x11” wide; front
cover has a 4" x 3" window to display an image), which they suggest
be printed on each birthday to mark the year. Starting at $38.99 (28
pages), pricing is based on the number of pages in your story: $48.99 (40
Pages); $58.99 (52 pages), $68.99 (64 pages), $78.99 (72 pages). Stories
are also available on CD for $30.
WHAT MAKES MYOWNLITTLESTORY.COM UNIQUE:
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Whether the family and birth story is
traditional or not, MyOwnLittleStory offers the ability to customize pages or
skip a question, allowing parents to include only the information that is
representative of their child and family situation in the book.
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The Milestone Memory Service emails make it
easy for busy parents to record the details of their baby's life from home,
office or iPhone and also allows parents to share their child’s latest
milestone with family and friends. Click the link, answer a few questions
a couple of times a month and over the course of a year, the child’s story is
captured and the book is done.
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If parents are too busy or if baby hasn't
quite reached a particular milestone, parents can click the snooze button to be
reminded again in a week. The site even offers suggestions to help
parents who might encounter some "writer's block" when jotting down a
story (see samples below). Topics include, but are not limited to:
o
Pregnancy: All
about your mom and dad, first trimester, second trimester, baby shower, third
trimester, preparation
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Year One:
Baby’s arrival, first smile, first laugh, favorite foods, favorite games,
rolling, sitting, crawling, walking, first words
o
Year Two: Talking,
toddling, eating, dancing, singing, imitating, dress up, art work
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MyOwnLittleStory
also offers gift certificates that come packaged in a keepsake envelope with
free items including stationery and labeled vellum envelopes for storing all of
those special mementos, such as a lock of hair, the hospital bracelet and more
.
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To put the finishing touch on every page,
MyOwnLittleStory.com features watercolor illustrations from Los Angeles-based
artist, Devon Galusha, who created the original images exclusively for
MyOwnLittleStory. The covers are available in Pink, Blue and Green with
the idea that simplicity is the best approach to creating a keepsake that will
last a lifetime.
ABOUT MYOWNLITTLESTORY.COM: MyOwnLittleStory.com (MyOwnLittleStory), the only online baby book with automated email reminders specific to a baby's stages and current milestones, offers parents the ability to customize and detail their personal story about their baby’s firsts, funniest, cutest and best moments. The exclusive MyOwnLittleStory Milestone Memory System is a free service that tracks the child’s age and reminds the parent, via email, to record the special stories of the child’s life.
MyOwnLIttleStory.com was created by Kristin
Coons, mother of three young boys. After her third son was born in 2006,
she came up with the idea for MyOwnLittleStory from her own desire to write
down the details of her kids’ lives while they were still little and it was
still fresh in her mind. Kristin spent a couple of years fine-tuning her
vision and three years working with a programmer to create the site.
MyOwnLittleStory launched in 2011. The site currently has about 10,000
users and is growing daily. Kristin is also the author of a blog: TheInspiredMom.com which features the
stories of other moms who are following their dreams as well as inspiration
from what she has learned on her journey of following her own dreams.
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