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To find baby photo shoots a bit weird ?

130 replies

Notagoodtime · 16/01/2022 21:29

Just seen on fb a friend took her newborn to a photo shoot. Baby was dressed in all sorts of costumes including a bumble bee and was contorted into all sorts of positions for photos. To me a newborn baby is so beautiful without all of these weird costumes and settings. Aibu?

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crochetandfleabag · 16/01/2022 21:31

Yes they're tacky in my opinion, and I too find them a bit weird. But each to their own!

EishetChayil · 16/01/2022 21:34

Common as muck.

Mushypeasandchipstogo · 16/01/2022 21:35

YANBU they are vile!

OverByYer · 16/01/2022 21:36

I find them a bit creepy. I don't like seeing babies prodded and posted while they are asleep. Leave them be.

rrhuth · 16/01/2022 21:36

I don't personally like posed photos for anyone, but they're harmless.

Cuddlemuffin · 16/01/2022 21:36

I don't like them personally but each to their own and doesn't do any harm x

rainyskylight · 16/01/2022 21:37

I find them awful.
We did a family photo shoot in the spring blossom when DD was 6 months. Just us smiling and laughing under some blossom trees. Was a lovely morning and didn’t involve dressing her up in a hairband, tutu and angel wings 🤢

DrinkFeckArseBrick · 16/01/2022 21:37

Me too. I wanted a shoot when my baby was 4 or 5 months old. I found a photographer and agreed no costumes, I had a dress that was special to our family that I wanted her in, and then just her most worn outfits...I couldnt take them myself as lighting and background rubbish in our house and was too cold to wear them outside.

Photographer agreed and then I turned up and she tried to put all sorts of weird costumes on her, drape lace curtains over her, ott flower garlands etc. I said no thanks and got loads of passive aggressive comments about grumpy mummy not knowing what looks best in photos.

I never bought any of the pictures nd noticed the photographer had put a couple on their website with photoshopping including making my babys lips more red. It looked like she was wearing lipstick. Never again!

Cam2020 · 16/01/2022 21:40

I cannot stand these! To each their own and they're not hurting anybody (except the poor child's pride in 13 years) and everything but they irrationally annoy me!

GlumyGloomer · 16/01/2022 21:41

I got sucked into one via a 'competition' when my eldest was 9 months. She wore her own clothes, but did get stuffed into a flower pot at one point. The photos are cute, but not remotely worth the money (at the time I wasn't strong enough to just walk out with the one free photo, which is exactly what they were counting on).
Dd2 did not have a photo shoot...

Focus126 · 16/01/2022 21:47

I used to think these kind of photos were cute, until I had my own baby. Now I can't imagine dragging a newborn somewhere, dressing him up in costumes, putting him under bright lights while he's sleeping.

PikachuAndMe · 16/01/2022 21:55

I like the natural ones. A couple of pictures of a newborn sleeping and with happy parents are lovely reminders of how tiny the child once was. I dislike the costumes and posed unnatural photos.

Toddlers and children shoots I also prefer natural ones of them playing in the woods/Park..

mollyqueenofsocks · 16/01/2022 22:03

I blame Anne Geddes! Her adorable little baby figurines brought to life in newborn photo shoots!

GucciBear · 16/01/2022 22:05

Ridiculous - as are baby showers!

namechangeddforthiss · 16/01/2022 22:08

Nooo the natural pictures are cute not the outfits!

DramaAlpaca · 16/01/2022 22:09

I agree, OP. I think they are creepy and really quite ugly.

toastofthetown · 16/01/2022 22:10

Of course you aren't being unreasonable for having an opinion on something. But other people aren't being unreasonable for liking them either. As long as no-one is hurt (as is the case with these photoshoots) then surely it's just that different people like different things. Surely that's not a new concept to you.

pinkiepiee · 16/01/2022 22:11

Yes!! Creepy af and can't be fun for anyone involved

Pigtree · 16/01/2022 22:12

Each to their own but I’ve always hated the poses they put them in. Would be lovely to have professional photos to look back on but not in silly poses and outfits

mafted · 16/01/2022 22:14

Can't stand them.
They're really odd and so impersonal, the babies all look the same.
My SIL had a strange one where DN is naked in a basket on the floor and her, her DH and their dogs are sat on chairs around him.
I hate cake smashes too.

steff13 · 16/01/2022 22:15

@mollyqueenofsocks

I blame Anne Geddes! Her adorable little baby figurines brought to life in newborn photo shoots!
You know she took photos of live babies, right?
premiumfeet · 16/01/2022 22:17

I agree with you on this one. I don't particularly like newborns buried in fur or having crochets covering parts of their bodies or costumes where they are placed in really uncomfortable positions. I like natural photos. Our first photoshoot was when dc was 5 months old and it was outdoors in the summer. I wore a flowing dress, dc wore a bright coloured short dungaree and it was all natural. Made sure dc had his nap and wasn't fussing about and the photos turned out to be beautiful.

BigYellowHat · 16/01/2022 22:17

I liked the ones I had done of DS but this was nearly 19 years ago now so way before costumes became a thing. I bought a set of 5 pictures which I had in black and white in a landscape frame and he was just wearing a nappy. He looked so sweet 💕

Sunnytwobridges · 16/01/2022 22:17

I thought I was the only one creeped out by these types of photos. Plus they are soooo overdone now, I just prefer normal pics without all the props- even for adults

ChampionOfTheSun · 16/01/2022 22:18

We had a newborn shoot but it was basically just pictures of our baby, and us with our baby. I specifically didn't want her shoved in pots or in costumes etc. Not that she would have ever, even then, cooperated for such a thing Grin I picked a photographer who I knew took gorgeous natural pictures and I am glad now I did it as I don't have many nice photos of me and DD together when she was small as I was very poorly when she was born. But I fully agree about the costumes etc!