Mum's who can't find themselves in photos

[Tasha149]

Recently someone put on mum's net about lack of photos they were in with there children. It made me look over mine to realise I'm only in 1 or 2 photos a month with my children from the day they were born. I now feel sad that I never asked for people to take photos and never really thought not being in them would affect me this much. Does anyone else feel this way x

I think out of all the photos of children that are taken, 90% are of the child themselves, 7% with mum and 3% with dad. (Statistics based purely on a casual trawl of my DC's childhood photos!)

The development of forward facing cameras on phones is very much changing this landscape, which is great! Although it has led to a tragic rise in the incidence of babies wearing bunny ears or flowery headbands.

I don't have a single photo of me and either of my babies as newborns. Not one. There is one photo of me visibly pregnant with my first and not a single one with my second. I could count on one hand the number of photos I have with my 4yo, even fewer with my nearly 2yo. It makes me sad, but DH just doesn't take photos and if I ask him I get the faffy 'if I have to' and then the moment's gone. There are loads of both babies, DH having moments with them where I've just thought that it'd make a good picture so got the phone out and taken lots to choose a good one or two to keep. It does bother me but there's little I can do, the time's gone now.

@Tasha149 @Morticiaismymumgoal, sort the DHs out now, your kids will want pics of you with them when they are older, the time is gone, but lots of time ahead. I also always have to tell DH, take the photos. It is painful and always posed because I have to dictate (and more often than not blurred) but I have started doing this because I realised after child 2 that I was nowhere to be seen.

I had this issue all the pics were just of hubby and the kids as I'm the one always taking nice family pics. I had enough so I brought a tripod for my phone! With a remote to take the pics. My husband dies of embaressment every time I get it out but I don't care, I now have lovely family pics to look back on.