AIBU to wonder when the baby pictures stop?!

[violetskiss]

I want to preface this by saying this is mostly lighthearted …

My sister had her first baby in September. She’s the first baby in the family and is completely wonderful, we all obviously love her to bits. HOWEVER - since then the family WhatsApp group has been flooded constantly by baby pics!!! I honestly mean we get 5 or 6 every day, and because they’re on a group chat there’s such a pressure to respond to all of them - there’s only so many emojis I can send or times I can type that she’s the cutest baby in the world (which of course she is!!)

I don’t mind this really and understand it won’t be forever, but can anyone tell me when I can expect my dsis to calm down with the pictures and let the group chat regain some normality?! I miss the memes and chatting about what we’re off to do at the weekend!! I know my dbro is feeling the same, although obviously we would never say anything and will of course always respond with the appropriate coos!

I have the opposite, requests for photos constantly. We live overseas so I get it but we also don’t do anything exciting enough to warrant daily photos.

Many of my friends are now becoming grandparents. If you thought baby pics were boring, wait for the grandchildren ones

@dementedma

Many of my friends are now becoming grandparents. If you thought baby pics were boring, wait for the grandchildren ones

See I get this. I wouldn't dream of spamming my in laws or anyone outside my immediate family with photos.

But my mum, dad and sister? We're close. They WANT all the pictures. And I love sharing my ds with them.

I feel for you OP. Personally I am so over WhatsApp and group chats in general because of Covid so I would find this amount of messages requiring a response quite intrusive and draining (regardless of if baby pictures or something else). I think you’re fine to only reply as and when you feel like it!

I send lots of pics of my kids to the family WhatsApp group. I live abroad so I never see my family, as a preface. But I don’t expect anyone to respond to the pics, it’s just an easy photo dump (hate that term). My brothers carry on with the memes and jokes and so do I.

Stop responding to all the pics. She shouldn’t be offended. Life goes on.

@DinkyDiggies

I tend to respond to these types of thing by setting the dog up in a similar pose and posting it. Takes a few pictures but people tend to cotton on after a while.

Lol! I love this 😂

@ChatterMonkey

Im sure you can get apps that they can post pictures onto and you are all members of and see the pictures. Like a private sharing album app i suppose but im sure there are ones specifically for baby pics. Maybe suggest something like that to them, frame it positively rather than not wanting the photos to take over whatsapp (im sure you can get ones that then put slideshows etc together of the photos)

This is what we ended up doing since we were aware that we didn't want to spam everyone with photos all of the time in the WhatsApp group. Also not all of our family members have WhatsApp so to post one picture we had to use about three different messaging apps to share it.

In the end we ended up using an app called MySunshine. It is great since it stores all of our photos, videos and also allows us to record Milestones such as his first tooth. It also means the family can view the new pictures as and when is convenient for them.

I would highly recommend giving MySunshine a go. Try suggesting it to your sister as a way to help her record all those pictures of her baby. She then might stop using the WhatsApp group.