When Blair looked down at her crushed phone, she wasn’t thinking about the money. The loss she felt was far more devastating. Snapshots from the first six months of her daughter’s life whizzed through her mind.

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8 digital baby book ideas that are easier than a scrapbook Her husband had dropped the phone in a parking lot, and before they realized it, a car ran it over. The photos were unrecoverable. Blair still had the dozens of photos she’d posted to Facebook, but hundreds of others were gone forever, including all the shots from the hospital. ?I can?t remember what she looked like when she was first born,? says Blair, a mom in Newmarket, Ont. Parents are taking more photos and videos of their children than ever before. Compared to the generation before them, children growing up today will have a much more vivid sense of who they were, where they lived, the goofy things they did for attention, and just how much they were doted on.
But with the incredible potential of digital photo and video, there?s the incredible risk of erasure. Many of us are storing hundreds, even thousands, of memories on our phones or laptops, without giving a second thought to what happens if our devices go kaput. The reassuring news is that ensuring all ...