To be upset at not having newborn pics of me

[Verbena37]

Until a few years ago, I hadn't really over thought about it in too much detail but I've been aware from a teen really that my parent's first baby pictures of me start from around 12 weeks.

Not a single newborn picture, not one.
Considering my grandfather took tonnes of pics of family.....before I was born and after, I'm surprised he hadn't taken any of me either. No relatives have any newborn pictures of me, I don't think.

My mum was given bed rest for pre eclampsia ten days before she had me and stayed in hospital for ten days after......as was the norm in the late 70's.

I've chatted to them about why they didn't have a camera (they said they probably didn't) for such a momentous occasion as a first baby birth and they just brush it off. However, there is a photo of my mum quote heavily pregnant with me in Scotland so someone took that and I had assumed it was my dad.

I'm pretty certain I'm not adopted as I look very much like my cousin and my grandparents on both sides but I find it strange that they had newborn pictures of my sister only two years later.

Is this rare do you think or is it common? Do lots of you have no newborn pics of yourselves? When I try to talk to my parents about it in a lighthearted "perhaps I'm adopted" type way, they laugh and brush it off as funny and that they hadn't really thought about newborn pictures. I just find it very odd.

I was surprised the third time forceps got used on me, they used anaesthetic and everything it was very modern They didn't the first two times.

Prior to about 95 in my area minimum 10'days stay after was usual with very limited visiting think two hours each day one morning one afternoon people just didn't bring cameras onto the wards around here back then it was really frowned apon to take not posed photos where you may have not looked together

I had two children in the mid to late seventies. The first photo of either of them is about 6 weeks old, and only then because we were visiting grandparents. I then had two children much later, in the nineties and noughties (?) and I have photos of them at minutes/hours old. Times change. I was born in the fifties and have one baby photo at about 6 months, one when I was about 4 (both taken by a professional) and one about 6 being a bridesmaid, no school photos in those days either!

I was born in 79, my brother 83. No newborn pics of either of us and really only a couple as babies. There are probably more pictures of my 18 month old daughter than there are of my entire childhood. They were just different times - different technology, different attitude to photos, women stayed longer in hospital and hospitals were stricter places. I would say no newborn pictures is probably quite common for the time.

Taking a photograph inside was more expensive as you had to purchase a fkas for the camera and they flash may come in a pack of five - once you had taken five pgotographsvinsude the flash would be finished and so you would only take one or two at a time. It really was an ex pensive luxury. The seventies were a time of strikes, job losses and money was really sparce, you could waste unessessery flashes

i've got some as a toddler - and then a small handful, maybe one or 2 a year between 5-12, i think you're U and lucky to have the 12week pic (born 1971)

I was born in the 60s. The earliest pic of me is from when I was 6 months, and that was taken by a photographer, rather than by my parents. I think this is very common. Do you worry that perhaps you were adopted? Or do you feel unloved in other ways? Because otherwise I am not sure I understand why you find it so upsetting?

sylviawrath I've had an emergency section and another ventouse delivery so yes, I know trauma. I meant that my mum had said it wasn't traumatic in her words. She in fact, said it was an easy birth and had the epidural because that's what they were told to have in the 70's.

I'm not really upset....just upset that I don't know what I looked like when I was born. I'm just interested in whether I looked like my own children etc.
My mum said she would have said if I'd been adopted so pretty sure I'm ok about being their's. It was purely Interest. I know what my little sister looked like because they had a photo of her taken on the day she arrived home to pick me up from my nana.
Oh well, I will wait and see if my Aunty took any of me.

There is not a picture of me until I am about 18 months. There are loads of my older siblings!
It doesn't really bother me though, it would be nice but not the end of the world.

I don't have any photos of me as a child/toddler. First photo I have of me is a school photo aged 5. In fact, the only photos I have of me as a child are school photos. Very few taken elsewhere.

One on the beach, another when I passed my 11 plus, but that's it. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Neither me nor DSis have more than a couple of baby pics of us, the folks just weren't interested in pictures really, there are more of us when we were older and more interesting!

Most families would have had a camera, but nearly all photos would have been taken outside on a bright day. Not many people would have bought flash bulbs for indoor photography. Anyway all new-born babies look like Winston Churchill in a bad mood!!

Another '76er and there are no newborn pictures of me and only a handful of pictures as a baby/toddler. It wasn't a 'thing' back then to memorialize every event and film and developing were relatively expensive for low income families as mine was as a child - just one of those things.

earliest of mine was probably around age 3. I dont think ive ever seen my baby pictures considering all of my siblings have it.

I was born in the 70s, youngest of 3. My dad had a camera but there are no pictures of me from before about 4 as they had no money. It's just one of those things.

There are two or three large b&w prints of me as a babe in arms from 1968. All taken at the same time. Then there's a colour photo of me as an older baby/toddler - this was original a photographic slide that I now have as a digital image. Then a photo of my sister and I at a wedding when I was 3. Then more photos from the age of 7/8...

Photos had a different cultural meaning then. Obviously much fewer were taken than when we can do easily take one on our phones. Also, different photo technologies make a difference. I think my mum has some boxes of old slides somewhere but no prints in albums of those times.

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