I bought these the other day from Amazon (just one of my many middle-of-the-night internet purchases!) and they would make such a good new baby gift. They’re “Milestone” cards for taking photographs with – so if your baby is one week old, or ten weeks old, or however many weeks old, you can pop a card into the picture as a kind of real-life annotation.

And it’s not just for the baby age milestones, the cards cover all of the important “firsts” – rolling over, crawling, sleeping through the night… I’d quite like to see an alternative set with milestones such as “first projectile poo” and “first nervous breakdown-inducing screaming session”.

A really great present idea, I think, especially in these days of constant Instagramming and Facebooking and life-documenting. And the cards make a bit of a change from jingly rabbits and sets of bibs.

You can find the Milestone Baby Cards on Amazon here.