To think pictures of babies with food on their faces are gross?

[EirikurNoromaour]

I'm not asking 'why do people do this' because I definitely did it too when DS was small and I wrongly thought weaning pictures were funny. I might even have put one on Facebook. But they are actually so gross. All I think when I see one is 'that lovely face is spoilt by that crusted on baked bean juice' and it just makes me feel a bit ill. I also find kids with food encrusted faces a bit grim in real life, maybe I'm a weirdo.

[VampyreofTimeandMemory]

i don't really think any pictures of babies are gross i'm afraid.

[WaffilyVersatile]

You aren't just BU. You are being odd.

[SPsMrLoverManSHABBA]

Vamp My brother sent me a pic of our little brother eating dog shit. That was gross

[Oakmaiden]

Funny -I was looking at my daughter's baby photo's with her yesterday, and found the picture of her first encounter with chocolate. It was very cute - but probably mostly because it was a memory for me of that particular occasion, than because the sight of a child with chocolate in their eyebrows is particularly appealing...

[CrohnicallySick]

It depends.

Fresh food that you take a quick snap of before commencing the great clean up operation is cute/funny. Especially when they manage to smear it on an unusual part of their face (like eyebrows) or it makes a funny shape (like a moustache and beard).

However, crusted on bean juice suggests its not fresh and is therefore gross.

I reserve the right to change my mind when DD gets older (as you clearly did!)

[EirikurNoromaour]

I don't really mean the face is spoilt. I mean the view of the face is spoilt. Really? Just me?

[VampyreofTimeandMemory]

SP bleurgh yeah that's not ideal.

[slightlyglitterstained]

I like the "bring me another smurf!" one.

[Lilacroses]

No, I can't stand this either op! There was another thread on this a while ago and we were in the minority. It just makes me feel sick. Sorry!

[FortyDoorsToNowhere]

I quite like them.

[EirikurNoromaour]

Lila! Yay! I'm not alone. And SP that's gross! I think I would have puked. Genuinely.

[Lilacroses]

I do feel bad about it but even with my own Dd I wouldn't have enjoyed it and I am far from pernickity about tidyness etc. Not sure why I find it so yukky!

[FannyFifer]

I hate it as well, tried baby led weaning but dear god the mess.

When DD was little the Health visitor kept trying up get us to come to a group where you basically let your baby crawl and roll about in food.

Wtf, food is for eating not playing with. I declined several times.

[EirikurNoromaour]

Ugh fanny that sounds foul. What is the logic behind that?

[FannyFifer]

It's meant to be a "sensory" thing apparently.
I've seen photos of friends babies doing the class crawling around amongst jelly & spaghetti and it gives me the total boak.

[Helltotheno]

Fanny just... eewww :( Where is the appeal in that?

I'm with you OP... I do find babies cute an' all but I don't like messy eating in adults and even though it's a normal part of being a kid, if I was showing off photos, I wouldn't be in a rush to show messy food ones.
I dunno, I don't think you're odd :)

[Casmama]

This probably sounds strange but I think it depends on the food. Smooth white food eg yogurt or icecream I have no problem with but anything darker like chocolate or god forbid beans- gross.

[BlueStones]

I don't like it either. I don't say anything, of course: just smile at whoever is showing me the photo. But it turns my stomach. I'm aware that I'm in the minority though.

[EmpressOfTheWellOfLostPlots]

It's my phobia tbh. Food on faces makes me feel sick, regardless of age.

[hmc]

I don't think they are the cutest variant of baby photos but neither am I repulsed [bemused emoticon]

[Mintyy]

Yanbu. No one, with possible exception of overly-doting Granny, is interested in pictures of your baby covered in food.

Would have thought that's fairly obvious!

All of us with children have seen it all before.

[Rosencrantz]

I think it's gross. I think food is quite gross generally.

[ThomasLynn]

YANBU.
My stomach does flip flops when they come up on FB. Especially banana or porridge. Massive boak.

[Christmas2013]

I find them absolutely disgusting - I have friends who regularly put them on FB and I have to scan past them ASAP. I just don't get it - urgh!
So glad I'm not the only person who feels this way - I was tempted to ask the friend who made her profile picture her son smeared in food to change it as it makes my stomach turn but I don't think she'd take it well so I'm just hoping it gets changed again soon.

[tracypenisbeaker]

Its gross, especially when its combined with drool. Theres one woman i know who always bloody does this, seemingly every mealtime theres a picture that is taken. Right big close up ones as well. Either keep them confined to the family album to show people who give a crap that your child has mash up their nostrils or wipe their face and get on with life.