To find baby photo shoots a bit weird ?

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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?

The maternity photo shoots make me bawk tbh
I'm aware a lot of women feel at their most beautiful when they're pregnant but I don't want to see you nude with metres of tulle covering your bits popping up on my social media feeds thanks. Oh and I pity the partners stood there (sometimes also topless ugh) holding the belly with a gormless look on their face
It's all very self indulgent eh

And I'm not sure whether the creepiness is because the photo is so over the top edited that the babies look like dolls?

Obviously it’s al a matter of personal taste but personally I think these photoshoots make the babies just look like a jacket potato in crocheted knickerbockers. And the parents ALWAYS look knackered.

… when I was pregnant, I had a bit of a scare and ended up in the obstetrics department of a hospital in Southern Italy.

It was a picture on the hospital wall of a baby emerging from a yoghurt that first made me really feel excited about having a baby. YABU

Yanbu.
Newborn babies are so delicious and scrumptious I can just about accept the naked or nearly naked ones with nice cuddles from parents (preferably NOT naked please!!)
But the ones where babies are trussed up in ridiculous outfits (seriously, some things are so weird) and have bloody great awful headbands on the girls or teeny “suits” on boys are just beyond awful and borderline cruel.
Yuck. Tacky AF

Agree. Naff as fuck.

Loads of them are only in those weird poses because they are composites. Obviously I don't want babies squished and prodded into unnatural positions but knowing that the positions are so weird they can only be recreated by splicing other photos together just makes it even weirder.

Never seen a photo from one of these or from a cake smash that actually looked nice. Ir that looked any different from any others.

It’s often an unpleasant genre. Far from capturing the joy of welcoming a lovely new baby into the world, the more extreme styling has a nasty way of reminding me of Victorian post-mortem photography.

Ours were really natural, thankfully (although I did get carried away and there is one of her asleep in a basket with a little fox hat and tail ). I wouldn't have organised one for myself but my mum bought it as a gift and I have to admit it was nice to get done. We got a lovely photo of her and DH that we have framed. One of those 'just at the right moment' things. No head bows ever. DD looked like Grant Mitchell in a dress, so a head bow would really have been taking the piss.

I've only had natural ones done with the babies in their own clothes sleeping peacefully.

I don't like the forced ones where babies are in weird positions in horrid fussy outfits.

The worst I've seen was a naked baby stuffed into a giant (real) pumpkin. There were leg holes cut out and the baby was sat inside with his legs pulled through the holes. He was crying in the photo and looked uncomfortable, must have been a complete sensory overload the smell, wet slimy pumpkin, cold, uncomfortable... why do it?!

It was a picture on the hospital wall of a baby emerging from a yoghurt that first made me really feel excited about having a baby. YABU

I’m so sorry you had a scare while pregnant, @Twonkers, and I really hope it all turned out well. BUT I’m having a really hard time visualising a baby emerging from a yoghurt

Not for me.

Yes @TheMarmaladeYears I think that’s what I dislike about them too.

I wouldn’t but each to their own.

Baby won’t care.

@givemepiece

The maternity photo shoots make me bawk tbh I'm aware a lot of women feel at their most beautiful when they're pregnant but I don't want to see you nude with metres of tulle covering your bits popping up on my social media feeds thanks. Oh and I pity the partners stood there (sometimes also topless ugh) holding the belly with a gormless look on their face It's all very self indulgent eh

When I lived in Dubai a long time ago, everyone appeared to have the same styled maternity photo shot hanging in their house — woman in white boob tube on beach, husband/partner and any older children in white shirts and jeans staring enraptured at her bump like the Messiah was about to emerge from it, very soft-focus.

But those sleeping newborns in flowerpots with bows on their heads and their chins on their hands are deeply creepy. Zombie babies. If I had that on the wall I’d be afraid of the eyes opening and following me as I went past.

@TheMarmaladeYears

It’s often an unpleasant genre. Far from capturing the joy of welcoming a lovely new baby into the world, the more extreme styling has a nasty way of reminding me of Victorian post-mortem photography.

That’s exactly what it reminds me of.

My friend has a photo displayed of each of her 4 children in the same Pixie photo costume at around the same age.
They're quite cute but not something I would do.
I remember one of my nephew with fabric draped over his nappy and a red rose in his arms.

@TheMarmaladeYears I kind of felt they always seemed creepy and eerie for some reason but couldn't work out why but now reading your response, it has pretty much answered that. Your description is spot on for me at least.

Bit weird, nothing wrong with a photo being taken but these hours long shots are overkill

I found it really difficult to get a photographer to take baby pics of my two without shoving them in baskets or wrapping them in shrouds. Awful!

I did eventually find someone to take some lovely natural photos of my little newborns, just in cute babygrows nothing weird.

Couldn’t get worked up about baby pics (I don’t find babies cute and maybe I would if they were in a costume, who knows). Nude/barely covered pregnancy shoots with rapturous/gormless husband though… bork!

The worst of the genre was one where the woman had “baby” written on her naked bump in what looked like Nutella, and man had “beer baby” on his naked stomach. Absolutely grim.

I hate these - just natural photos are so beautiful, no need for literal posing, and tucking up their feet into unnatural poses.

Some of these descriptions have me cackling. I think there is a trend away from posed photos like this for anything these days, even wedding photos are trending towards more candid. Trying to capture someone taking excellent in the moment photos on their phone style of photography (I’m sure there is an actual word for this).

I also think something nice about having the photos in your environment as it’s more of a memory in context? I’ve seen some gorgeous ones lately of parents and new born but just relaxed in their house.