to be annoyed at dp for never taking photos of the kids and I?

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Was looking through photo albums with dd today and realised I have literally hundreds of photos of the kids with dp but hardly any with me. Now I'm not particularly photogenic and don't like having my photo taken unless it's with dp/the kids which I've told him many times but it makes me sad to think there's no real record of our time together. The only photos I have with the kids are ones when dp has interrupted whatever we're doing to get us to say cheese so they look staged and false anyway.

I have lovely photos of the kids and dp curled up asleep together, dancing, reading, laughing etc. I have told dp on many occasions how much I love natural photos. I would love to have photos to mark the hours and hours of my life I've spent breastfeeding, of the kids and I co-sleeping, of the look of delight on the kids faces when I'm reading to them or tickling them and so on. I've spoken to dp and he said to tell him if I want him to take a photo, but then the kids automatically change or he tries to get them to look at the camera and the moment is lost. Aibu and over-sentimental to want photos like these with my children?

We are similar, I have taken hundreds and DH just a few. But the best way round it is to get some proper professional photos done once a year - not staged cheesy ones, but natural ones at home - that way my DD has a permanent record of us all and other family members no matter who is rubbish at taking pics.

Those of you with no photos with you're newborns, have you asked the grandparents etc who visited in the first few days? That's where I got a photo of the three of is from.

Doesn't help with day to day stuff though. I'm another family photographer

You just have to ask him. We are the same, it is my camera and I love taking photos. My husband hasn't a camera and he has no interest. We do however have plenty of photos of me with the children because I hand him the camera and ask him.

I have a friend who constantly has a camera in her hand, two of them actually, and they are right royal pains in the backside. I do not want to be constantly snapped unaware and uploaded to FB. I demand vetting rights now.

Not everyone is a happy snapper and some prefer to be behind the camera

Harryhausen I feel exactly the same, my DS's birth was fast and I had visitors straight away, so we have photos of DH and my parents each holding him but not one single one of me. I'm in one photo incidentally, basically sitting in the hospital bed looking on (and not holding ds). I can badger my DH to take more pics of me with ds but what us hurtful is that no one wanted a pic of me with him :-(