Photo of nude baby

[Sailinghappy]

Genuinely interested to see if I'm being unreasonable here... what do you think?

So today my husband was playing with our baby daughter in the paddling pool having the loveliest time. She just splashes around in there nude in this heat and loves it! He took a funny photo of her playing with her duckie in the water and shared it on our family whatsapp group - with both aunties and uncles. I do think the photo is cute and I'm glad they had a lovely time playing but I'm fuming because my baby is nude in this photo and she has her legs wide open!! He way she's sitting isn't very dignified and I don't want everyone having photos of that!!!

Husband thinks it's just a funny photo shared with family - AIBU??

Actually I've just remembered. I received an obscene phone call when I was 11 after having my picture - wearing school blouse, jumper, tie etc - in the local paper. My mother passed the phone to me and when I told my father what the caller said - I was rather an innocent 11 year old - my father roared with laughter.

Chillax x

No. It's not ok. SHe is a person. She will grow up, and these images will be out there. It was a family whatsapp group, so let this go, but clearly you need to take care. We didn't have fb as kids and are lucky all our photos are not online... I think it's naive to think everyone is so innocent.

I suppose it's just depressing that female children are viewed like this.
No, I was exactly the same with my boys.
They have the right to not have photos of their genitals photographed and sent to other people! It's not complicated.
Let your children play naked - it's lovely. But there is rarely a need to take a photograph and if you do, edit it to cover their genitals.
Someone may well share it when the child is older and the child might feel mortified by that. I'd have hated it, I've very glad my parents made a conscious decision to never take naked photos of their children.

Children have rights.
Parents have responsibilities.

And for those people who think that WhatsApp is somehow different to the internet, where exactly do you think WhatsApp is?

Can you really not see the difference between a public Internet forum and a family group?
Comments like this show how little people understand.
My WhatsApp photos are all automatically backed up to my phone and 2 cloud storage accounts. Any of those things could be hacked or accessed by someone else.

I honestly think it's really sad. Not being able to take entirely innocent pictures even just for yourself sad. To me that would feel feels like letting the abusers win.
To me, it's honouring the child's rights to privacy.