Ok, RANDOM question.What do you think of anne geddes pictures?

It's been a while since I looked at her photos but from what I remember they mostly seemed very developmental. I don't know how she conducts her photo sessions but I imagine if the kids are sleeping most of the time they must not be too uncomfortable.

I very much dislike them. Not that I have any reason to beleive that the babies are mistreated, but I don't like to see them used as objects. I also saw one picture of a premie in a man's hand that looked about 2lb. In all seriousness that baby was mcuh too small to be out of an isolette (or dead already). I have disliked those picturse ever since.

Ahhhhhh....this thread is funny....I can't STAND anne geddes pictures. I love babies but I just hate those pics. They give me the heebie jeebies. I questioned that preemie picture too. And then when she paired up with celine dion...It's like to evil forces combined or something. I don't think she mistreats them either...those pictures just give me the creeps. Everyone I work with is obsessed with them...it's like Mediao for pregnant people. I just don't like them

Quite a few of her photos are digitally altered to give the effect she goes after. I don't like them all that much, but I don't dislike them either. I think the preemie one is an altered one, IIRC

Some of her pictures I like, and some I don't...I agree that I don't like the...um...business aspect of the whole thing? I feel like a lot of times people see babies as status symbols or something (and then get a nanny to do all the "baby" stuff!) and then it just doesn't sit right...

I generally like them. In fact, we have anne geddes pics all over our NICU. Interesting, huh?? :)

Some of the pictures I think are very nice...others not. I could take it or leave it truethfully. If there was any concern regarding the care of the infants, I'm sure it would have been addressed long before now.

People are proud of their baby, and I don't see any difference to this or any other picture that is shared with the public.

Interestingly we just touched on this subject on my preemie parenting bb while discussing the frustration over the misconception of what preemies actually are. While I enjoy some of her work, we were discussing how this type of "glorification" can propagate and perpetuate the gross misconception that preemies are just cute little babies, and the desire among unsuspecting women to have one.

remember when cabbage patch kids also came as cabbage patch PREEMIES? how crazy is that! i had one (i was six)...i just remember how good it smelled. i didn't have any concept of preemies i don't think back then, just liked the doll. funny i then grew up to be a nicu nurse.

p.s. i have a pic of a baby sleeping by a violin that is a geddes picture. the baby looks very peaceful sleeping.

I am very surprised at the mixed reactions to these pictures. I think they are beautifully done...Mediao for pregnant people? Come on! I wish more of our parents would treat their babies as lovingly, instead of shooting heroin for 9 months, then decorating their cribs with rosaries and pictures of Jesus.

I wish more of our parents would treat their babies as lovingly, instead of shooting heroin for 9 months, then decorating their cribs with rosaries and pictures of Jesus.

And the name on the crib card is "Destiny" "Miracle" "Precious" or "Heavenly" right? Also a full code, "do everything" kind of baby? Grrrrr...you're right. I see too many parents who treat their babies like crap in utero and then expect us to work miracles afterwards.

Babies are something to be treasured, to be adored, to be marveled at! That's why I like her pictures - she puts babies into the spotlight as the beautiful creatures that they are.

The preemie picture in question...in one of her books, there was information in the back talking about taking that photograph. It was a gentle older man with beautiful, hardworking hands, and a healthy, stable preemie. The picture was taken in the NICU, probably a few feet from the isolette. Heck, we've send kids HOME recently who are that about that size!!!

The pictures I can do without are the ones where the women wear these body stockings and they drop the baby inside to look like she's pregnant and we can "see" the baby inside of her. Those kind of rub me the wrong way.