To think that taking a picture of her kid was weird?

[Grannypants1]

So I don't have a vendetta against photographs, let me clear that up. But recently I saw one of the mums on my facebook write a post about her DD. Now usually I actually quite like her. She does have a condition in which she gets headaches and we do get daily updates and the occasional selfie of her lying down looking sad or a photo of her on every single hospital visit, but apart from being a little bit of a trufflepig for tragedy she is actually a fairly nice women. But she did something and I can't get over how weird I think it is. DD must be 8 or 9 and on mums birthday picnic she slipped on the quarry and fell 20ft into the rocks. She must have been absolutely terrified! Emergency services come and took DD to the hospital and it was found that there were no injuries apart from a scratch. Great news for everyone. But then she wrote a post on facebook about DD under the heading 'sorry I haven't replied to anyone today' and along with the post is a picture she has taken of her child in the ambulance strapped up, eyes closed and looking close to death?! Part of me wonders at what point in the journey to the hospital (at which point she didn't know if her DD was okay and must have been full of panic) did she stop to take a picture of her little one. surely the only purpose of taking that can be to post online for sympathy? Does anyone else find it a bit odd, that taking a picture occurred to her at all? Or Aibu?

This woman has issues.

possibly, but that's quite common.
How many times have you heard "it could have been me" when people discussed a very public disaster? It could have been me in Nice, I went there 3 years ago, or I was at that very spot the week before
It could have been my son in that plane crash, he flew on the same day! (with a different airline to a different destination, but never mind). Some people try to make themselves important, it's not new.

Is it really worst to post something once you know everything is fine after all? I don't think so. Some people need support, and so called "friends" on FB give them the wrong impression that they have them. They dont realise that the so called friends spend their times bitching behind their back.
I judge the backstabbers a lot harshly than I judge the attention seeker. If I don't like their drama, I just ignore, possibly block them. No big deal.

Another point of view: I have photos of DD in an ambulance (following a neurological episode so I was bricking it), having tests done, in a hospital bed etc. She asks for the photos and I try to behave as calmly and normally as I can so I take them. She also likes to look at them afterwards and talk about the experience, I think it's a way of dealing with the stress.

I don't post them on FB but won't judge people who do; when you are sick or have a sick family member you do what you can to get through the days. If posting on FB helps them, it's not my concern.

If your child is ill and being rushed to hospital in an ambulance do you:
A. Take out your phone to photograph your sick/ injured child and post a picture on FB
B. Take out your phone and quickly phone/ text close family to let them know what's happening

Truffle pig for tragedy lol

I don't see it as a massive issue. Not something I've ever done, but if a friend did it, I would assume that she was just letting people know.
Once she's in the ambulance the mother would be fairly incidental, it's not like she took a photo at the bottom of the cliff when one assumes she'd have been slightly distracted.
She's probably at the point she took it both suffering after effects of shock and relief it looks like her DD will be okay, so not necessarily thinking and acting totally rationally anyway.

ive done similar took a pic of my son in a headbox and uploaded it but he was stable when i did it and it was the fastest way to explain to people what was going on!

FarAwayHills it took 20 minutes to get my DD to hospital in the ambulance (we live rurally and it was not an urgent emergency). There was time to call her paediatrician, time for the paramedic to make a balloon and draw our family on it and time to take a photo. The aim was to keep DD calm and happy.

YANBU. She sounds like a right attention seeker. My relative does similar things all the time. Totally attention seeking and unnecessary Facebook posts just because she wants to receive loads of comments from people. She took a photo of our relative when they had just had surgery and was still unconscious and put it on Facebook. Thankfully relative was ok but in the photo she looked really awful. Then kept putting status with "X UPDATE........." Every time someone in the family hurts themselves or does something, she turns it into dramatic Facebook posts. Weirdo.