They Won't Remember Turning One. Your Letter Will.

Most parents address it to the child at their own home and keep it sealed in the baby book, or send it to grandparents to hold. Some order one every birthday and build a collection to hand over years later.

Yes - grandparents, aunts and uncles often send one. A child who ends up with a bundle of letters written in their first year, by people who were there, owns something no gift can match.

Write down what she is like right now - the sounds she makes, what makes her laugh, what she refuses to eat - because you will forget all of it within two years. Then say plainly how it felt to become her parent.

Three things work: a snapshot of who the baby is at one, an honest account of the year the parents just had, and one wish for the person they will become. Everything else is optional.

There is no rule, but most families pick a threshold - the eighteenth birthday, a wedding, the day they leave home. Writing the intended occasion on the envelope helps whoever is keeping it.

Write it online, choose handwritten at 699 or printed at 499, and we post it anywhere in India. Choose a delivery date and we time the dispatch to land on the first birthday itself.

Yes - up to 10 printed photos, square 3x3 inches or 2.3x3.5 inches. A printed photo from the first year, sealed with the letter, is what makes it a proper time capsule.

Every letter is written on 100gsm premium cream paper, which is made to be kept rather than to be posted and binned. Stored flat and out of sunlight it will comfortably outlast childhood.

Yes - English, Hindi or Hinglish. Many parents write in their mother tongue precisely so the child grows up able to read it in the language they were first spoken to in.

Use the samples above as a starting point, or the free writing assistant to turn a few rough notes into a letter. You approve every word before it is written and posted.