Pictures of sick child in hospital on FB?

[TheWomanWhoMisplacedHerHusband]

Close-up shots of very sick child sleeping/with drip in arms/trying to smile for camera with balloons people have given them with updates like 'thanks for the balloon they cheered her up a bit' taken by parents have come up on my feed (they don't know what's wrong with child yet).
Aibu to be a bit shocked at these?

Maybe they had already done that (told the parents)?

In that case feminine why post pictures of their vulnerable, poorly child on the Internet for everyone to see?

How do you know what they has already done?

Yet again you say your not slating the parents then you go on to slate them.

Just because it isn't what you would do doesn't make it wrong. Different people make different choices.

Some friend you are! Hope your life goes as swimmingly as it has done now because believe me, you haven't got a CLUE.

I post pictures of my eldest child even now.

And she is dead.

So sue me.

I posted photos of her whilst she was bald from cancer treatment, too, and had visible lines coming out of her.

So sue me.

I am so sorry that expat and mrsDV have seen this thread.

OP I know you want to be 'right', but please, have a heart.

VERY offensive, but an apt demonstration of how utterly clueless you are.

Oh Expat I was really hoping you would miss this thread! So sorry that the OPs obnoxious opinions have upset you. I hope you realise that the majority are on the side of the parents in this case and on yours.

And MrsDeVere!

Not upsetting, just offensive.

I hope the posts from Expat and MrsDevere make the OP realise just how offensive her posts have been, and perhaps she will start to appreciate just how difficult having an ill child is and how parents do what they find comfort in at a time of great distress

I'm not agreeing with the OP but in her defence, I think she was saying that she finds posting pictures in emergency situations distasteful, rather than just seeing photos of poorly children. That said, I don't agree with that point but that's the impression I got from her initial post.

It rarely does with such people, Sirzy, because they are always convinced they'd be so much better people, if anything so tragic befell them.

I understand that this is a REALLY touchy subject Sirzy, and appreciate that parents need to do whatever they can to get by. But, as I have also pointed out its a pretty awful time for the child, and shouldn't their comfort come first? It's bad enough lying there, with every inch of your skin in pain, with tubes everywhere and feeling groggy from the drugs, without everyone your parents are acquainted with seeing you in that state? Doesn't the child have a right to privacy? Because a photo of myself in that state on the Internet would make me feel pretty damn uncomfortable.

It's just too easy to judge others who are in a situation you have not experienced.

Of course the childs comfort comes first, but this isn't an either or situation.

I'm not saying I have been in the parents situation Sauvignon , but I have been in the child's....repeatedly throughout my childhood

When your child is sick, you don't know what to do so you just do what you do.

Exactly.

At a terrible time for the family they should be allowed to cope with caring for their child in any way they can. Caring for anyone sick in hospital is exhausting, physically and mentally; my only experience is caring for a parent and I can't imagine how much harder it is must be to do the same for a child. It doesn't harm the child so give them a break OP. YABU.

I'm not agreeing with the OP but in her defence, I think she was saying that she finds posting pictures in emergency situations distasteful, rather than just seeing photos of poorly children. That said, I don't agree with that point but that's the impression I got from her initial post.

This. And

I understand that this is a REALLY touchy subject Sirzy, and appreciate that parents need to do whatever they can to get by. But, as I have also pointed out its a pretty awful time for the child, and shouldn't their comfort come first? It's bad enough lying there, with every inch of your skin in pain, with tubes everywhere and feeling groggy from the drugs, without everyone your parents are acquainted with seeing you in that state? Doesn't the child have a right to privacy? Because a photo of myself in that state on the Internet would make me feel pretty damn uncomfortable.

This.

These were my main points.

No where did I say pictures of sick children offend me but I can see people have whipped themselves into a frenzy without reading my points.

I was out of line saying parents are selfish to do it, but I do believe these parent in question were. And stand by that. As the pictures came flooding in after getting to the hospital. Not after months of cancer treatment or a prem babies milestone.

I did not mean to generalise at all, and stated that upthread. So please stop using your own examples as my thread was about this child who had just arrived at hospital very ill. The parents should have just been concentrating on the child at that time, not Fb, and I stand by that. 'So sue me'.

And I'm not sure why this thread would be deleted this is aibu where people post opinions on subjects and it is discussed.