to feel that hiring a photographer to capture the birth of your child might be not such a terrible idea?

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AIBU?

Mmmmm....what bit of it. The messy bit or a nice posed shot in bed cleaned up. I wouldn't bother with the former.

NO NO NO!

YABU. Please don't tell me this is a new trend. I don't need to see THAT on FB

The messy bit and the sitting up in bed with baby bit in clean sheets.

When they're teenagers we could threaten them with it --wouldn't really-

Ewwwww.
You mean the actual birth, as it comes out, as opposed to some nice cuddling pics after?

Some birthing pictures are just beautiful. I know mine wouldn't have been :o
And there's no way I would want a hired photographer hanging around my nether regions. Each to their own though!

if you are having an ELCS it might work, otherwise scheduling could be an issue.

I pooed whilst pushing DC1 out. Damn, that would have been a great one to turn in to a canvas and mount above the fireplace

The actual birth, or directly after? Childbirth is like that bursting out of the chest scene in Alien - fascinating in a can't-look-away sense but not something you'd show the inlaws on a rainy Sunday. It could just serve as a reminder of a really horrible experience. Straight after is a different matter though. DH took an absolutely unbelievable photo of me and DS just after he was born, it is so gorgeous and I didn't even know he'd taken it. That's definitely worth it but can be taken by anyone IMO.

I have been a midwife for 16 years and have NEVER, EVER seen or heard of this happening!

Family/friends yes of course. But a professional photographer!!???

YABU. Not. Necessary.

This was the topic of deabte on The Hub, on the This Morning programme today.

I was sure this wasn't a new thing. Some people video the birth, or do they?

Link: www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2174545/So-hire-photographer-capture-moment-birth-Its-growing-trend-things-best-kept-private.html

Flat no from here. I don't see it as a natural photo opportunity. My flange, distended and possibly split from craw to crack, for eternity? There are pretty events for such work. some things are meant to be memories that you flash back on in your own head.

I don't read the DM!

I don't want to see me giving birth, I don't want my partner or a midwife to see my giving birth. (I will have to of course, in about 6 weeks) But a photographer?! To capture my indignity for ever!

No way!

Erm, I wouldn't have wanted a photographer capturing the birth of either of my children.

Not because they were particularly difficult labours and not because I'd have been embarrassed - I wouldn't have cared if the cast of Eastenders were in the room staring at my fanjo at that point - but because it wasn't (for me anyway) something I would want to see for myself, of me anyway (IYSWIM ).

Photos straight after the birth - great.

Photos actually of the birth - ick.

full on fanny shot, head crowning?

erm. No thanks.

But a straight after birth skin to skin pic might be nice.

How about sponsorship deal?

The Hub

I think it might be nice to have the photos, but it's a bad idea to have too many people in the room when in labour - and if it's a lovely natural labour you're going for ( which I guess it would be if you want it photographed!) then having someone there with a bloody great camera would be the last thing that would help.

If something was to go wrong and there were no photographs then I guess it might be somethuing else to feel disappointed about even just a teeny bit. The idea doesn't sit very comfortably with me that is why i thought I would ask after watching This Morning.

Sonme photographers might use the pics for reasons taht they shouldn't too. Good and bad everywhere, risk one takes.

this made me laugh I cant think of anything worse than proff photograpger in there with proff camera to capture all that in such raw mega pixel details blown up xtra large!

i think it would be hideous! would they capture all your facial expressions too?

what about proff video man...

having said that I think all the NHS books on birth need thier pics updating, still have ladies with 80's hair and dungarees...

I don't know about a professional photographer but one of my FB friends has posted about this. She lost her DH soon after her child was born and would have loved to have the whole family captured together forever at this moment.

But no, not for me. It was not a pretty sight.

Yuck. And I feel bad enough that I don't have any of the 'sitting up in bed' shots (as ds had been whisked to SCBU and I didn't get to hold him for a couple of days), tbh