Baby photos?

I have some snaps taken at my Christening, then some studio prints. Getting film and paying for printing was expensive.

There are just a few photographs of my brother and I taken when we where first born the next ones I can find where when we had our first birthday.
I can find lots of photos from being on holiday etc when we where 3yrs plus but nothing in between sadly.

1956 - and there are lots of baby photos of me. Possibly because my father was working abroad for part of that first year and they were taken to send to him?

I was born 1951 as well. Similar set-up, and very few photos. There is one of my Christening and a studio set when I was just over a year, then one when I was almost 4. Two aunts have given me a few snap-shots they took. My dad said photography was an expensive waste of time! Mum had the three of us in under 4 years, so she was a bit busy to take photos. Dad's 92 now, and loves seeing photos of great-grandchildren. Old git!

I have just realised that I have never seen one of my christening but I do have the certificate to prove it.

DH's family took more photos (not particularly baby ones) but we have no idea who some of the people are

Born in 1949 and no baby photos apart from a christening 'snap' in which I appear as a nondescript shawl bundle. The adults seem to be the focus, but sadly I can't identify most of them. Think it was economics, photography was an expensive hobby and parents only had photos taken by others until the late 50s.?

I was born in 1954 and have quite a lot of photos of me. My parents were working class too and in business all their lives - my dad seemed to collect cameras through his life and I have several in the garage from the old box brownie one to a polaroid he bought in the 70's. Strangely I have very few photos of my own children as babies especially the youngest. Born in the early 70's we had no camera at the time and no one seemed to think we might one day realise we missed the opportunities. These days with phone cameras we take photos of anything and everything - I have more pictures of my cats than of my kids

I was born in 1951, followed by two sisters in 1955 and 1958. We have baby photos, although not many. When clearing my family home, my 1955 sister took most of them with her to try and make a family history album.
I think that my favourite photo is of me, in our back garden, wearing the fancy dress costume that my Aunt made for the Queen's coronation, I was eighteen months old. Here I am, with my mother.

My mum has a photo of me aged 2 months just after they adopted me. There are a couple of photos of the baby they lost before me (that's why they adopted) when she was small but not many of my brothers (1 adopted, 2 natural) in early infancy but more as they/we got older. I think that cameras were expensive to buy and use and people weren't as obsessed with them as they are now! They were certainly fiddly, I can remember my uncle changing the film by touch under a blanket one year when we all holidayed together so he wouldn't spoil the film by letting light in!

Same here I was born 1956, just one baby photo of me. Then no more until primary school age.Think it wasn’t the norm then to take loads of photos like today’s mums do.Or did everyone even own a camera, that may be part of the reason.

My father was away at the Korean War when I was born and apart from a couple if pictures at my Christening i don’t have any until I am obviously toddling. Maybe our mother’s simply didn’t Own a camera until the next birthday/Christmas opportunity arose to be given one. I don’t think in the early fifties there was much money fur luxuries - which a camera and film would definitely have been and maybe - being frequently German made items - they simply were not available/bought after the war.

I was born in 1948 and have lots of photo's of me as a baby .... for which I'm eternally grateful as my lovely mum is in them - she died in 1963 when I was 14 ?

Yes, it’s all so different now, I’m a 1946 baby with older siblings. Not many of any of us, a few studio photos of older brother & sister but none of me? ( third child syndrome coming to the fore!). We do have a much treasured family group photo. But I don’t know who had the camera? I never remember seeing one in the house & just know there would not have been spare money for such a luxury. My two grandson age 2 & 4 have been snapped since the moment they drew breath!

I do have one - not sure why all babies in the fifties had fat faces. Maybe its just the effect of the ribbon tied bonnet

There are a few snaps of me as a baby - not so many as a toddler though and none of my christening. I was born in 1948.

I was born in 60s dad took some lovely photo of mum inside in sunlight and photos of me in garden.
But no flash light so inside shots .
I have inside photos of of my two in 90s as we did by then . Even in 80s not many inside shot as my camera did have flash light .

In those days you had to keep fairly still while the photographer got their focus and exposure set, and VERY still while the photo was taken. Not many small babies managed this.

I only have one photo of me, taken in my pram (a high old fashioned hand me down which my older brother had too ) aged I would think, about a year, with a wonderful knitted pointed top hat like an elf ! Must have been about 1948 as I was born in 1947_ My dad had a box brownie with a front that folded out ...he loved to take pictures, although the only other one I have is when I was about 2 years old and sat in a suitcase in the garden (my mother said I was inseperable from the suitcase !) then there is a distinct lack of any until one with my dad's prized runner bean, when I was about age 5 ......and not a lot more ! but I do love to look at all the photos in an album ....hope people will still keep hard copies in this digital age ! a shame to lose the memories !

I was born in 1951 and there are a couple of snapshots (another Brownie box camera) of me as a baby in my mother's arms, with my toddler big brother. After that, it's toddler stuff at the beach, outside Grandma's house, etc. No studio portraits, ever.

Born in 1953 and I have loads. My dad loved cameras. We’ve also got cine from 57 onwards. We were riding on an elephant at Belle Vue Zoo.

My brother was born in 1947 and there are albums of his photos. By the time I came along in 1952 the novelty must have worn off! Don't forget people could only take photos outdoors as most cameras didn't have flash. My mum used to take my brother and I to a studio about once a year. We also got an annual Father christmas photo taken.

I only have one photo of me, from 1946, then nothing until my younger brother and I were toddlers, despite my uncle being a keen amateur photographer.

Born in 1961 only a handful of photos from my childhood, youngest must have been me sitting on the floor of the caravan which we lived in at the time at about 8 months

Born 1956, first photo aged a couple of weeks with the midwife who delivered me at home. Quite a few baby photos of me and also my two older sisters (1945 and 1952).

What does sadden me a little is that there is not one photo of the whole family, mum, dad and sisters, and only one of my father holding me as a baby.

Mum was born 1919 and I have a couple of baby pictures of her as well.

I have a studio photo of a beautiful blond baby boy from 1904. This child was my maternal grandparents’ first child, and they were obviously very proud of him. It’s a sad story. He died of meningitis aged three in 1906, along with his little sister. They would have been my uncle and aunt. My mother was the first child who lived, then my uncle, her younger brother.

There used to be a huge framed enlargement of the baby boy photo in my grandmother’s house. My mother told me that his little sister who died did not get the same treatment because she had some sort of physical deformity. Very sad.