I was looking at information about various birthing centers last night. I wanted to give some of them a call and schedule a time for Krystal and I to go take a tour and get a consult so we can decide where we're gonna have the baby. One of the birthing centers had some link to other people's "stories" of having a baby at that particular facility. So, being the curious minded fool that I am, I click on one and take a peek. The first one was accompanied by pictures and I started reading. As I scrolled down the pictures started getting more and more graphic. First there were shots of the pregnant lady topless, then it starts showing her laying on the bed full frontal, then she gets in the tub and she has the baby. These photos are like crash zoom shots of close up crowning. I'm no prude, but a few overall pictures of the lady using the facilities amenities would have been fine.
And that leads me to my next observation. This has been on my mind for a while, since back when there was a big stink over Facebook taking down pictures of mothers breastfeeding. I don't understand why some people want pictures of themselves breastfeeding or giving birth or having surgery posted on the internet. I know so many people see the internet as means of connecting to family, but to me it seems the same as tacking those pictures up on the bullitin board at your local Fred Meyer. And I understand that the birthing center is using those pictures as a means of education, but when they asked if they could take pictures of their birth and post them on the INTERNET, what woman in her right mind says yes? And it's one things to be like, "oh I just thought I'd post it for my family to see," but these people who are aggressively fighting for their right to post picture of themselves breastfeeding seem to have something wrong in their heads. I think because I grew up in a time where their was no internet I see it differently then some younger people who don't know any other world then one with the internet readily available. You know, it is just a giant mass of random strangers where there are probably 100,000 idiots for every one of your family members that will see your personal shit.
And I know, I'm a big hypocrit because I'm blogging. But I have no problem with books published about birth. You will never see a picture of Krystal giving birth or of Krystal pulling up her shirt to show her belly size. I have no intention to even post a picture of the baby. Not publicly. Those things can easily be emailed to individual people VERY easily, so this "I'm sharing these pictures with my family" argument is BS. Those are just voyeristic people. Which is fine, just stop lying to yourself.
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I totally agree with you. Even when I had Luna and wanted to document the event for Kelly since he could not be there, it was a no picture zone from the waist down... come on... who really needs to see that?? I also only took one picture of me breast feeding to share with Kelly only.
ReplyDeleteYou have to be so careful of what kinds of pictures of you kids you put on the internet too... next thing you know they are dragging your kids away because you are being charges with child porn because you have a picture of 3 month old Johnny getting a diaper change.
Some people are just plain dumb... and I wish there could be some kind of law against dumb people having children.