Plain Lab · journal
Pregnancy Journal
One page for every week already on the appointment card, left for what you noticed rather than what a chart expects.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 80
- Leaves
- 40
- Sheets
- 20
- Signatures
- 4 × 20pp
- Spine
- 4.58 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
The week pages follow the same count a midwife or an obstetrician already keeps, one page per week, so the book and the appointment card are never talking about different weeks.
Each week's page leaves room for what you actually noticed rather than what a chart says is supposed to happen by then, because no two pregnancies keep the same chart. Prompted pages appear at a few points through the weeks for the longer questions a single line will not hold.
It sets no week against a percentile and it makes no claim about what you should be feeling by now. Whatever a midwife or doctor needs to know still goes to them; the page is only where you keep your own account of the weeks in between.
What is inside
- Week
- 40pp
- One page for every week your own clinician is already counting, left open for what you noticed.
- Prompt
- 12pp
- Longer prompted pages at a few points through the weeks, for the questions worth more than a single line.
- Notes
- 16pp
- Plain lined pages for anything a week's page runs out of room for.
- Reference
- 12pp
- Weight and length tables worked from definitions, with emergency numbers checked against two sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Apprentice's JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Hajj and Umrah JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Reading JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Session JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Weekly Review JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
Questions
What is on a week page?
Room for what you noticed that week, in your own words. Nothing is pre-printed beyond the week number itself.
Does it list milestones?
No. It sets no week against a chart or a percentile, because pregnancies do not run on one chart.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 80 pages, 4.58 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. The pages are numbered by week, not by calendar date, so it starts whenever you start filling it in.
Is this a substitute for antenatal appointments?
No. Anything a midwife or doctor needs to know still goes to them. This book only keeps your own account alongside it.
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