To have told my sister she was unprofessional and inappropriate? * [Content warning: concerns baby loss]

That's completely appalling of her. How utterly callous. Is there an Ombudsman you can report her to because I most certainly would.

I don't think you're being unreasonable at all.
To be honest, I'd have found that really upsetting. Whatever the circumstances, filming something deeply personal in someone else's home without their knowledge and then sharing it in a family WhatsApp with the caption "it's dead" feels disrespectful.
I don't think you were acting as the moral police, I think you reacted to something that most people would find quite shocking.

With that reaction I would say I wonder if your clients would agree? Or her employer! Honestly she’s unhinged. I’d leave the WhatsApp chat for sure

I don't think I could have a relationship with someone who did this, whoever they were

Very unprofessional and potentially a professional misconduct/disciplinary issue. No permission or consent from the patient/client. At best its sharing data without consent (photos are data) at worst... well, its horrible isn't it! That is someone's child. Does she regularly film or photo client/patient houses???

She's self employed! But its disgusting behaviour, even before the truly horrifying post about the baby. I would just disengage from the chat.

I would report her to her employers personally! Sister or not!

She needs to be prevented from visiting other people's homes immediately and permanently.

She sounds like an arsehole and she is not going to change. I would mute the chat and message your mum and other siblings (?) directly to contact them. Or if you need to be in the group one just ignore every single message she sends from inside people's houses

Jesus Christ
Look, I've worked children's hospice. Some photography companies can do amazing shots of babies born sleeping. They are likely the only photos she can display in her house of her child. And a supposed professional has come in and filmed them to take the piss out of her stillborn child?
I do not say this lightly, your sister is a callous cunt
That would fundamentally change my opinion on somebody (and u say that as a laid back lass with plenty of experience of dark nurse humour)
There's a line, your sister obliterated it

Block her fucking nut job and go low or no contact.

but she has already behaved unprofessionally, sharing images of people's homes on your group and making comments about the state if them. Yes the baby photo is a whole other level of nastiness but the line had already been crossed.

She needed calling on her shit and you did it - good on you. How would she feel if someone did that to her - bet you would hear it then and rightly so. She needs to sort her shit out, Maybe if this got out and she lost her job it would give her a kick up the arse and open her eyes!

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YANBU. Not even close.
What your sister did involved someone's private grief, filmed without their knowledge, captioned with something callous, and shared to other people. That's not a matter of taste or a joke that landed wrong — it's a real breach of the trust that lets her into people's homes for work in the first place. If the family whose baby died ever found out, it would be devastating, and honestly it's the kind of thing that could cost her the job if the wrong person saw it. Calling that unprofessional and inappropriate isn't harsh — if anything it's a restrained way of putting it.
The "moral police" accusation is a pretty classic deflection — it reframes "you did something that could really hurt someone" into "you're being uptight," which conveniently makes the conversation about your character instead of her behaviour. You said you gently raised it, which suggests you weren't even coming in hot; the barrage back sounds disproportionate to what actually happened.
Your mum staying quiet to keep the peace is understandable but it does mean you're the only one who said the thing that needed saying. That's an uncomfortable position, and it makes sense you're now second-guessing yourself — that's often what happens after getting yelled at, even when you were right. But feeling bad about the fallout isn't the same as being wrong.
You mentioned she has a pattern of not accepting criticism — I'd separate that from whether you were right to say something this time. You were.

She is disgusting for doing that

I thought she’d sent a pic of a baby who’d just died.
I am now assuming she has sent a photo of a photo of a baby who’d died from somewhere within a home she’d been in?
It is not quite as grave, but it’s still appalling.
She sounds a bit unhinged and without empathy. People really trust someone like her with their home it’s such an intimate space.
I don’t really have any advice other than stop having her on your WhatsApp and tell her why.
Your mum is close to my age I would go nuclear if I received a message like that.
Stop giving her attention and feeding the beast by accepting her messages.

Sadly, after I posted I discovered that this horrible woman is self employed. There is a regulatory body for estate agents, but I don't think they "police" estate agents very well.

I think some negative publicity on social media might do the trick.

I think this post needs to come with a trigger warning. How absolutely heartbreaking your sister did this.

> Isn't that a sackable offence?
Wouldn't it be a criminal offence?

Unprofessional?? It's fucking horrendous! Photographing someone's picture of their dead baby and sharing it? I'm beyond horrified.

My friends and family would probably say that I can be overly harsh sometimes and may make jokes about things that others would consider inappropriate. But even I would never make a joke about something so upsetting. Your sister is an awful person to even consider sending this to you. If she ever has her own children, you should remind her of this as I’d imagine she’d be thoroughly disgusted with herself.

Completely agree. She's staggeringly unprofessional and should be reported to the ico.

However doing that may destroy your relationship with her and your mum. Difficult decision

She's vile. Ask her how she thinks the homeowners would react to knowing she did this. Then ask how she thinks prospective clients would feel about inviting her into their home knowing she did this.

What a disgusting human being. Let's hope she never has to go through something like that herself.