https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 28 May 2026 18:14:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1837463 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:33:58 +0000 loveisstrange 1837463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have zero naked pictures of C. None. I have a few where she is topless (her 6 month shots featured her in a tutu and pearls with no shirt) but none of her totally naked or even in the bath. </p> <p>I dunno... I dont think I really have an issue with it, I guess it just doesnt occur to me to document that.</p> <p>I think the line is somewhere around 2, personally. I feel like at 2 they aren't a "baby" anymore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1837421 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:14:24 +0000 My Only Sunshine 1837421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a pretty reluctant facebook sharer anyway so I only have a few photos of my daughter on there, and she's fully clothed in all of them. </p> <p>As far as pictures just for us, I have several pictures of my daughter in the bathtub prominently featuring her little baby booty. I feel like finding naked bathtub pictures from your babyhood in an old photo album is a rite of passage, at least in my family. </p> <p>As far as 'topless,' I don't see a problem with it. She's one right now and I think it's completely fine. I'm not sure when I'll feel differently but I'm sure I will...maybe when she's closer to school age? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1837045 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:26:26 +0000 pinkb 1837045@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think there is anything wrong with taking the pics for family memories, maybe up to like 4 or so. But I personally started to have an issue with DD being topless in public photos around 14 or 15 months. It just felt weird to me at that point. It was brought on by MIL had posted it to FB and made it her public profile pic. I don't look at other babies and toddlers in diaper pics as if they are pornographic or anything I really don't see anything wrong with it, I just have chosen that I am not comfortable sharing DD like that publicly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836964 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:02:22 +0000 travelgirl1 1836964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think for taking pix yourself, maybe 3, 4? But I have never shared pictures of her naked with anyone, even family members, and would not ever allow others to take naked pix of her, just because I don't trust them to remove them properly from old computers etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836938 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:54:11 +0000 skipra 1836938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think diaper shots are a big deal at all. The only fully naked photos of our little guy are from his birth or in the tub but we do not share them. Our older DS is potty training and naked about 90% of the time so if I do take any pictures and it shows anything they definitely are not shared with anyone. I guess topless boy pics are different than girls but I think as long as it would be ok in public (like the beach) it is ok to share with family and friends. Maybe not on FB or IG though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836918 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:45:37 +0000 youboots 1836918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mae I totally see the benefits of FB, but for me the lack of true privacy outweighs the benefits. The fact that anyone who is your 'friend' can right click and image and save it to their computer is concerning to me. I will likely just have a password protected album that I share with a handful of family/friends that will not have downloading privileges, I send out prints several times a year and will continue to do so. </p> <p>But I'm a survivalist at heart and would live on large acreage in central Oregon if M's job allowed it. Soooo consider your source :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836874 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:25:12 +0000 PawPrints 1836874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't plan on ever taking any revealing naked photos of LO, and if I did I would never, ever share them over the internet. I think a key point to keep in mind is that once kids do reach the age of being able to feel embarrassed and protective of their private parts, to them, those naked baby/toddler photos are of their body, and just as embarrassing as if you posted a current photo. Kids, like all humans, have a right to bodily autonomy and I think a big part of that is respecting their right not to have somebody else expose them publicly/permanently.</p> <p>But maybe take my opinion with a grain of salt, since I have pretty strict standards for baby-photo-sharing overall. My current thinking is that we'll do a password-protected blog to share photos with relatives. I really want to respect LO's future autonomy by letting his/her future self make the hard decisions (once he/she is old enough) about whether to have an online presence.</p> <p>(I do think topless photos of baby girls is a separate question, though. I wouldn't want to teach my daughter that her body is more shameful than a boy's body in any way. I'm pretty sure I feel like diaper pics are okay.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836855 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:15:52 +0000 artsyfartsy 1836855@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't take any completely nakie pictures of my son ever. I have a couple of him in the tub but his parts aren't in the picture. Not just cropped out, they weren't in it in the beginning. I don't have any of his newborn or hospital shots of him naked either. Diaper and topless (he's a boy so I dont think this will ever be controversial. Hello gender double standard) pics, sure!</p> <p>I probably will stop diaper pics soon. Topless pics though, I don't see the problem. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836845 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:11:06 +0000 gilmoregirl 1836845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I personally don't take any photos with private parts showing. Even my baby's first bath photos are covered. I guess I just don't feel comfortable with that for us, even if the photos stay private. I'm pretty reserved though, and I think I would be embarrassed now if there were a lot of naked pics of my baby self being shared, so I don't do it for my son.</p> <p>I do take diaper only pictures, but I don't share them outside of a text to my mom or my husband. </p> <p>As far as sharing photos on social media, I am generally very reserved about it. I post very few pictures to facebook/instagram, and it's calculated on my part. My husband and I discussed how to handle this when we had kids, because I'm uncomfortable with the way kids grow up with an internet presence. It's not even really about safety for me. I can't get my head around the idea that my son could have hundreds of photos of himself shared online before he's even old enough for social media himself. So we limit what we post. </p> <p>I have friends, though, who post several pictures a day of their kids, and I don't judge them for it. Nor do I think they should stop; their kids are adorable and I love to see the pics. We've just made different choices for our baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836828 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:05:17 +0000 wonderstruck 1836828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have actually never taken a naked picture of my son, not even when he was a newborn. Maybe it's just me, but even though they're just in a family photo album I totally cringe at the just born photos of me sprawled out naked on the warmer in the hospital, and I just don't feel the need to have/take any photos of LO where you can see private parts. Diaper pictures, on the other hand, I find to be adorable and think are totally fine throughout the first year or two. I imagine I'll stop posting any diaper photos online once LO is getting old enough to begin potty-training, and also photos where you can't see anything but obviously he is naked - I have FB friends who will post shots of their 4 or 5 year olds in the tub, and even though you can't see their parts I still feel kind of icky about it, not something I or their 200+ internet friends need to see.</p> <p>Not sure how I'd feel about diaper/topless shots age-wise if I had a girl. Since I have two boys it's never something I've had to think about. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836797 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:54:54 +0000 Applesandbananas 1836797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have tons of pictures of my LO in the tub (covered by bubbles or cropped) and running around in just a diaper. But, I don't post them online. I think the cutoff of taking these types of pictures would be when LO is uncomfortable or maybe 2-3ish. </p> <p>Honestly, I really don't believe the pictures themselves are the issue. I think it's the internet and the ability to share photos and stories instantly with huge audiences... And the fact that that sharing is out there forever. </p> <p>When my parents divorced, I wound up with several dozen photo albums of photos from my childhood. There are TONS of naked pictures, bath pictures, etc. but they're just in a faded photo album on the top shelf of my closet. Not living forever on the internet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836783 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:49:21 +0000 ShootingStar 1836783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NeekieRose: I agree. For as long as babies are in diapers, I think it's fine to photograph them that way. Once they're old enough for underwear then no more pics. And I never send out any bathtub pics where you can see the diaper area. </p> <p>We do have one video of him in the tub that I absolutely adore. He was about 6 months old and just giggling non-stop. But I wasn't thinking when I recorded him and definitely got too much in view. I text it to my parents as it was, but no one else (and they still made fun of me for sending child porn). For everyone else, DH edited the video and put in a black box. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836753 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:39:26 +0000 blackbird 1836753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My kid never has a shirt on at home--she rocks the diaper all the time. She never wears clothes to eat. I definitely don't consider that pornographic. And on the occasion i post a photo of her in the tub, all her lady business is covered (bubbles or the HOARDS of toys she must have). But you'll definitely see a little baby booty now and then. *shrug*. I think the line is somewhere around 2.5-3 years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836716 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:22:18 +0000 Mamaof2 1836716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: My 6 yr old always says that his little sister has "nibbles" not boobs! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836709 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:19:33 +0000 Smurfette 1836709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think anything is wrong with naked newborn pics. Although I didn't post any pictures of her bum in full view. You can see it from the side, but that is all. </p> <p>I don't post pics of her in the bath if you can see anything. Her cake smash she just had a skirt on and I think that was ok, cause it isn't like she has boobs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836703 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:16:39 +0000 looch 1836703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nothing on the internet is private, not even sending an email to someone you know. Anything can happen during transmission, I don't think people think about that aspect.</p> <p>In any event, I don't make it my life's work to document every single thing that goes on in my son's life, so I never have a camera on me, I am the worst person to ask about this kind of stuff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836701 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:15:59 +0000 Mae 1836701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@youboots: Because her grandparents live far away! haha I think people come down too hard on Facebook. I don't have a ton of "friends" there. Just family and actual friends (and a few people from HB now!). But all of my LO's grandparents (and also her aunts and uncle and all the rest of our families) live far away and aren't really a part of our daily lives. I post pics of my LO almost daily for our families to see because they like it and it makes them feel involved. I think in the past people tended to either live closer to their families, or their grandparents just accepted if they lived farther away they weren't a part of the grandkid's life much. I'm really grateful for the internet and the fact that I can make my LO's grandparents feel like they get to watch her grow up even though they live far away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836699 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:15:45 +0000 Adira 1836699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: hahaha, we'll see!!! If I do though, I certainly won't be sharing it! :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836695 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:13:55 +0000 Mamaof2 1836695@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: ha! Just wait until DS is in underwear for the 1st time ever and his bum looks adorable - you WILL snap a picture :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836692 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:12:31 +0000 Adira 1836692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think naked newborn pics are okay. I think topless/diaper only baby/toddler (while they're still in a diaper probably) are okay.</p> <p>But if they're not a newborn, I think naked pictures are strange (although I totally get bath pictures that are just top up (similar opinion for bath pics as I have for topless/diaper only pics). And taking a picture of a child naked or in their underwear (once they are out of diapers) I think is bizarre.</p> <p>But I'm also a prude! Cover up, people! :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836690 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:10:45 +0000 youboots 1836690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is truly a problem of our generation and the internet age. My parents are both advanced amateur photographers and the seemingly unimportant moments from my childhood are documented beautifully, these are lots of semi nude shots, our parents did not have a vast and unknown internet to post them to.</p> <p>As a photographer myself I am extremely sensitive to the privacy/modestly of my clients, and I will be the same way with my children. Knowing that a family was in our future, I deleted my FB account and make a new one to just admin my photography page. I started a second IG account for just friends and family so my 1000+ business followers do not have anything but very carefully controlled access to images our child, I will be a little more relaxed with my second account.</p> <p>So your question about sharing these kind of photos with others and when it would stop. Pictures of my child nude (even tastefully covered) will not be posted on the internet. I will gladly share images in a baby book or album with people in my home. I think the larger question becomes why are we so compelled to share everything about ourselves with the world. I try to keep my most precious images and memories private, just like my parents did. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836670 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:02:46 +0000 pui 1836670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I guess my rule of thumb for posting pics of your kid would be "would I be OK with her dressed this little in public?" If the answer is no, I wouldn't post it. Diaper pics feel appropriate to me before the age of 3ish. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836665 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:00:58 +0000 Mamaof2 1836665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never take naked pics below the tummy but my DD was in a shirtless phase this summer (she is 3.5 now) and I took pics of her wearing just a bathing suit bottom - I honestly didn't think anything of it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836645 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:53:21 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1836645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: agree. Cover the private parts before posting makes the photos share worthy. </p> <p>When kids begin to show modesty or actually protest then it's time to stop taking the naked baby pics. I remember a Jon &amp; Kate episode where Hannah was so embarassed she had an accident at three. That to me would be an indicator. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836643 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:52:44 +0000 NeekieRose 1836643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't see anything wrong with just diaper pics for as long as they are in diapers. I probably wouldn't take fully naked pictures of LO now (10 months). For bathtub pics I would try to avoid private areas and definitely not post them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836642 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:52:38 +0000 Radish 1836642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My basic rule would be when they are out of diapers for sharing sake. I would prefer a dressed child to a less than dressed child (never completely nude) in a picture, but sometimes life's little moments are just too hard not to capture. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836640 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:52:07 +0000 .twist. 1836640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think there's anything wrong with little bums and topless babies. I think babies running around in diapers are pretty cute. </p> <p>However, my very personal opinion on child photography is this: I don't really take naked photos of my son, ever. I don't post a lot of photos of him in just a diaper, either. I try to keep my facebook and IG pretty private. I did take a video of him in the tub once doing something cute, but you couldn't actually see anything. I just don't understand the point of naked pics? haha. Again, just my personal take on them. </p> <p>I know a girl on my FB posts nudies of her little girl a lot and I just don't understand why. FB can be private, but the internet is a scary place. One of my friends had a good friend for 12 years, and she recently found out he was taking videos of her and other girls in his bathroom. He even cropped out the face of one of his friends daughters and pasted it on the face of a girl he video taped having sex with. That is fucked up. She knew him for TWELVE years and never suspected anything, until he was caught. I mean, that's an extreme case, and I don't think everyone knows someone like that, but that's not to say it can't happen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836633 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:50:15 +0000 Mae 1836633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: right. To be clear, I never do photos with girl parts showing! I mean I take them occasionally but they don't go anywhere except maybe one pic to my mom of LO on her new bath sponge. But topless, I guess, is the question. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836628 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:47:17 +0000 Foodnerd81 1836628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Taking the photos, I think you have lots of time, and careful cropping makes them family share worthy (like I took photos of my 3.5 yo nephew and 12 month old baby in the tub, and only shared ones with no boy/girl parts, and only with friends and family, not Facebook or Instagram). </p> <p>Beyond that... I have no idea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/naked-babies#post-1836614 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:41:33 +0000 Mae 1836614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The post about art v. porn made me wonder... at what point do you think you should stop taking naked pictures of your kid? At what point do you think you should stop sharing them with others? </p> <p>As a photographer, almost every 1 year shoot has naked (or topless) pics for the cake smash, and I've never seen an issue with posting these online (nor has any parent ever asked me not to). Beyond that, I've never had someone want partially naked pics for older kids. </p> <p>For my own daughter I'm not sure. She's 3 mo and I post pics of her in just a diaper on Facebook all the time. At some point I'm going to have to decide to stop posting these pics online, but I'm not sure when. I'm guessing somewhere in the toddler years (maybe 2-ish)? And as for taking photos of her naked... I guess when she starts wanting any sense of privacy (maybe 4 or 5?). </p> <p>What do you think? </p>