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3rd Trimester
Taking pics/video during delivery?
I have no desire to do this. Right AFTER LO comes of course I want a few pics of my newly-born baby and my DH holding him for the first time etc. But the comment on the mom-in-the-delivery room post about her mom saying "who's going to take pictures..."
Of what? My blood and guts pouring out of my stretched-out vag? Really?
One of my IL's neighbors kept insisting the other day that we would want pics/video of the moment and I just let her ramble because I got tired of saying no, I won't.
DH and I like to take pics but we don't need a million of other life events either. We like to make good memories and have a couple pics here and there just to remind us. But a pic of a bluish-pink little naked screaming LO in DH's arms should be enough. I don't need to relive him coming out of my vag over and over.
Anyone with me?
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Re: Taking pics/video during delivery?
I don't want those kinds of photos either. My hospital actually doesn't allow photos/video during the birth so we would be SOL if we wanted those kinds of "memories." You could always tell ppl that the hospital won't allow it and thats why you won't be taking pictures of all your lady parts and what not!
My parents wanted me to skype the whole thing.
I'm with you.
Give me a few hours to feel human again before pictures are taken. And FFS let me bond with my baby without worrying about documenting everything.
There was no video or pics of the conception.
There will be no video or pics of the birth.
Unable to even.
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I'm with ya. I do not want a picture or worse a video of the birth at all, why would you want to watch that again?
Our hospital doesn't allow video of the birth anyway so...
Pictures afterwards, sure... but during? No.
Video? HELL NO.
The only pics I want of labour are of my family passed out on couches. At my BIL's daughter's birth, they have a few hilarious pictures of Gramma and Grampa passed out in the waiting room with mouths wide open. Apparently Grampa had a made snore on that night and everybody that walked by was laughing at him.
So during labour/delivery, pictures of anybody but me is good. That being said, we're trying to do this at home with the MWs so it will likely just be me, H and the dog. A couple pics of the MWs might be nice to show Taco who helped deliver him/her one day. But there will be no pics of my vaj.
This... this... this! Why would you want memories of that pain??
I don't want to relive those moments. I gave DH permission to take whatever photos of the baby he wants after the little guy is out. Me on the other hand, I'm gonna need to give explicit permission of any photos taken of me.
I sure as hell don't want to see the baby coming out from a damnn mirror reflecting my vag. ICK.
Right on!
At the hospital I am delivering at, they allow video cameras, even for C-Sections. I am not even joking. When visiting a friend who had a baby last summer at the hospital, we walked in to the new family WATCHING the surgery on their hospital television together (just hours after it happened.)
This is something we will definitely not be doing. No pictures during - just after and NO video
Wow. Interesting...
I agree though. Let me recover before the camera snapping begins. DH and I are bringing the camera but the picture taking can start after the babies are born. We've also told our families that we aren't having visitors at the hospital -- they can wait until we've been discharged and are settled back at home to visit.