To hate newborn photoshoot pictures?

[Toofondofcake]

So I don't know if it's just me but a lot of people on my FB feed have been posting their newborn photoshoot pics recently and I bloody hate them.

The babies are always squished into an elaborate outfit or stark naked on a rug and rolled into a little ball and then photoshopped so they look like dolls with terrifyingly googly eyes or creepy porcelain skin.
I can't abide them. Is this just me being a bit of a misery guts or does it irritate everyone else too?

Give me a cheeky home snap of a snuggly baby in a onsie any day.

I'm not a fan of the posed kind either, a friend of mine had a shoot done where her DP was topless holding their naked baby. It's just a bit... Weird!

I don't like them either.

YANBU - photos where the baby is in an unnatural position give me the creeps. It's treating the baby like a doll.

Yanbu. Weird and ugly. But for some people these pictures are Something That You Have To Do, apparently as essential as registering the baby's birth.

My sister loves a good photoshoot- during her pregnancy we were subjected to one of her wearing just pants, covering her boobs with her hands on fb I don't knew why she thought the world wanted to see that! (She's gorgeous, she looked amazing, but still...)

When dc was born the obligatory newborn/ family photoshoot took place within a couple of weeks- tutus, fairy wings, the works.

I obviously did a great job of cooing over them, as when my dc was born shortly afterwards, they gave us a huge value of vouchers for a photoshoot!
I still haven't booked it, I suppose I better.

"And I could get a cake from Asda and take pictures of my kids demolishing it for a tenner not £200"

Or you could not act like a sheep and not have a cake smash at all.

I hate the objectification of babyhood and childhood. It makes me really uncomfortable.

This is what ds thinks of being posed for a photo

All his own work. He is 16 months now and a bruiser

Brilliant, NeedAClever

Can't stand flowerpots/wings/cake-smashes. What are people thinking?

My photographer friend despairs - but that's what everyone wants...

On what planet would anyone think the rest of your friends want to see you snuggling your heavily pregnant semi naked wife when you're wearing nothing but your y fronts?! I was traumatized for weeks!

• THIS!

hahaha

I'm in the not a fan boat. Especially when the whole family have to be naked in the shot

YANBU. Try just look really tacky IMO. I like natural looking shots. Baby at home or mum holding baby. Some really nice ones done in black and white are lovely. But babies in bumble bee outfits laid next to artificial plastic flowers? Tacky wacky.

They just look. Oh!!!

I do newborn photoshoots, but not with contortion and the like. Just natural baby shots....

Blimey - I've not heard of these sort of shoots before - I want to have a look at some! Sounds like just another wheeze to squeeze more money out of ecstatic new mothers who are blinded by the joys of new motherhood.
Mind you my friends and I are prob too old now to have any more babies so that's why I've never seen one.

OMG - I just looked it up on Google. CREEPY

This kind of thing. Just no.

I've seen a truly horrific one on Facebook this morning....not the child of any of my friends, but a friend shared the photographers picture. It had a toddler dressed as Harry Potter, and a screaming newborn dressed as a mandrake being pulled from a flower pot

It looks like another thing that's come over here from America - am I right?
Some of the ones I saw on Google look like the swaddled 'baby' in the horror film Eraserhead
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eggybread I saw that one too! I was pretty freaked out by the screaming newborn. I'm a mega Harry Potter fan too so I get the reference but wouldn't fancy a picture of my naked screaming newborn in my living room wall.

I think it's one of those things that's been perpetuated by Pinterest and Instagram as like the benchmark for baby cuteness. I've been loving all the chilled out and cheeky baby pictures everyone is posting

I don't like the new born photo shoots at all. Hate seeing naked babies squished into stupid poses/with stupid props. Each to their own though!
I also don't like 'bump' photos. I do understand though that some people are just proud/excited and that's why they might put up 'bump' updates etc.

This was my effort at taking a cute photo of my newborn!

That's much nicer than the one Oysterbabe posted.

I'm not on facebook, so don't have to look at photos of anyone elses babies.
I do love photos of newborn babies though, but I don't get the point of a 'photoshoot' though. Haven't people always taken photos of their babies, as long as cameras have existed? Why does everything have to be a 'thing' nowadays? Or am I just a grumpy old woman? Probably.

Toofond I'm a Harry Potter fan too....but that was just disturbing
I had some photos taken of my Dd when she was about 2 weeks old, and the photographer kept trying to get me to change her outfit and asking about props. I refused to change her clothes, she wore a pink stripey sleep suit the whole time, stayed lying flat on her back or her tummy and the only props that didn't look overly cheesy were alphabet blocks that spelled out her name above her head
No weird contortionist poses thank you very much

As for naked bump shoots, I think Demi Moore started that fashion. It's good in a way because up to that point many of us were lead to believe we should hide our bumps away under maternity clothes, as if they were ugly. A pregnant woman wasn't seen as beautiful.

I remember the bounty lady whisking into my cubicle announcing 'baby photo!'. After an CS and I was still groggy. I told her to do one