What's your take on baby photos—are they cute no matter what, or are some less adorable than others?
3 Baby Photos You Should Stop Sharing (And 3 We Need More Of)
OMG, that picture of your baby is so cuuuuute!
And that one! What a darling little outfit! Look at those cheeks! How
can you stand it, I just want to eat him up right this minute! I think
my ovaries are exploding! I just spontaneously lactated and, and—oh. Oh
dear. Um, that photo ... not so much.
The truth is, not
every single baby photo is a keeper. Or, more accurately, they're all
keepers (who actually bothers to delete anything from their photo
libraries, right?), but some are less share-worthy than others.
Here, presented with kindness and just a smidgen of tough love, are three types of baby photos that don't need to make their way to Facebook:
VISIBLE POOP
Ha ha ha, it's so HILARIOUS that your baby had a giant blowout while he was in his jumpy chair and now there's a splatter of feces all over the floor and he's stepping
in it, haaaaa! Except OH MY GOD THAT ISN'T FUNNY AT ALL. In fact, it's
disgusting. Ditto poop leaking from diapers, poop soaking out the butt
of a onesie, poop on the changing table, poop floating in the tub, and
any and all visual evidence of human excrement—with the sole exception
of Baby Poop Face, where what you're seeing is the exertion, not the result.
As mothers, we're exposed to poop every day. We are not delicate
flowers who faint at the sight of a bodily fluid. That said, isn't it
enough that we have to get up close and personal with our own
children's poop? DO NOT FORCE YOUR CHILD'S POOP IN MY EYES.
FOODFACE INSANITY
Judging by the 10 billion photos I've seen of babies joyously cramming
spaghetti in their hair, I may be in the minority when I say that an
image of a food-covered baby makes
me involuntarily lunge for the wet wipes. It's just ... maybe it's an
OCD thing, I don't know, but a face smeared from top to bottom with
some sort of gelatinous substance—yogurt? Pudding? Who can tell?—isn't
remotely cute to me. I know, I know, Junior is just mastering solid
food and you want everyone to enjoy his newfound ability to mash wet
half-chewed lumps of Mystery Meal into his various facial orifices, but
blaaaaaarrggh.
SPIT-UP
All I can say is I lived the spit-up stage through two children and I
didn't think it was adorable then and I sure don't now. That whitish cheesy mess
coming out of your baby's mouth? NOT PHOTOGENIC. Thank god Facebook's
photo sharing doesn't yet include scratch 'n' sniff is all I can say.
Not that I've alienated everyone by sounding like a total baby Grinch, here are three types of photos I can't get enough of:
BABIES SURREPTITIOUSLY FLIPPING THE BIRD
Because haaaaaaa. Love those.
CLOTH-DIAPERED BUTTS
You know, as long as there isn't poop erupting out of one of the leg-holes.
COMICALLY STARTLED BABIES
Oh yeah. Bring it on, Comically Startled Babies:
What's your take on baby photos—are they cute no matter what, or are some less adorable than others?
Yeah I think if someone wants to share poop pics there should be some kind of warning lol, those are generally NOT cute. And puke pics EWWWW
I love sleeping baby pics, the food covered ones when they fed themselves, and any funny ones..
I agree with poop pics or pics where babies are holding alochol or cigarettes, but anything else is awesome :D
I never cared for the 'baby flipping the bird photos'.... :o/
Babies with alcohol, cigarettes, etc.. not cute or funny in my opinion.
Quoting VintageWife: I agree with poop pics or pics where babies are holding alochol or cigarettes, but anything else is awesome :D
I know :( I just don't get why it's cute to even put that stuff on a baby.
Quoting catholicmamamia:
Babies with alcohol, cigarettes, etc.. not cute or funny in my opinion.
Quoting VintageWife: I agree with poop pics or pics where babies are holding alochol or cigarettes, but anything else is awesome :D
I agree with the poop ones. The only time I need to see a poop one is when someone is using one as a comparison to a cloth butt. Because poop has never come flying out of my babes cd butt. Food ones, I do like. Just because I'm in the stage of the wanting to self feed and there is no nice way to take a picture of a baby who is learning to self feed. I do love the flash startled babies! That and the ones with the big dopey smile.
I don't know about other places but when I had my newborns pictures taken SHe had it very warn in there and had a space heater on her so she wasn't cold at all.
Quoting Mrs.Salz:I think they're generally cute but I get annoyed when people post 50,000 pictures of their baby all over the place.
I also feel bad for the babies in those naked newborn photo sessions- they always look so cold :(
people actully do that not funny at all.
Quoting VintageWife:I agree with poop pics or pics where babies are holding alochol or cigarettes, but anything else is awesome
Babywearing around the world
- Cafe Jenn
on Feb. 16, 2012 at 11:05 AM