Babies don’t just take over your life, they also tend to take over our hard drive space too! From conception onwards, it is amazing how many photos and videos you will take and create recording the precious moments. Although digital photos are easy to shoot and print, photos often tend to remain stored on our hard drives awaiting printing for weeks, months or sometimes years!

Don’t let your precious memories get lost in the multiple layers of your hard drive, instead take the time to organise and save your memories safely.

Firstly, ensure that your camera/ video camera has the correct date and time settings, so that when it is connected to your computer the file can be saved with the correct date for recording memories.

Secondly, setup a folder for each month according to age, for example, ‘Month 1’, ‘Month 2’ etc…

Thirdly, Store each month according to the year of your child’s life, for example ‘Year One’, ‘Year Two’, etc…

Fourthly, ensure that you keep a backup of your data on an external storage devise such as a pen drive, CD or external hard drive. Alternatively, you may wish to use Internet Storage Space such as Flickr or your personal webspace provided by your Internet Service Provider.

Finally, remember to get some of your memories printed, it is all very well having digital copies of your memories but there is nothing better than having a hard copy to treasure forever.