New baby, different ideas.

The child isn't HER's the child is theirs mamaperspective. I don't think that the GP's referred to in the OP were requesting a mini photo shoot just one picture of their GC, not too much to ask surely when all that's needed is a simple click on a mobile 'phone.

For this couple, for whatever reason, sharing a photo is too much to ask. It seems to me they don't trust the new grandparents- possibly with good reason as they shared news they were told not to.

Maybe that’s something the grandparents should try to rectify.

In most cases I see no harm in sharing photos, but I’m not part of that couple so I don’t know what their reasons are.

Why didn’t they send a photo? Seems pretty clear to me: the grandparents promptly ignored being asked not to share the news. If they’d had a picture, no doubt it would’ve been shared as well.

Seems like the parents made the right choice. My guess is they’ll send pics out when they’re ready to make a large announcement, since the grandparents can’t be trusted not to announce the birth themselves.

Smileless2012

^must wear a hazmat suit before entering^ that's so funny flappergirl. I wonder what they think anyone but the new mum's mother may do to the baby or germs they may bring in with them in .

You say that Smileless but regrettably my late FIL decided that his "sort of cold" couldn't possible harm my day old daughter. So he appeared, took her off my H, and promptly coughed a lung into her little face.

It wasn't a cold. It was RSV, and my FIL was very much not the one at the hospital with my daughter two days later as she was put on oxygen.

I would like to say I never held him responsible, but she had a weak chest for years afterwards and every time I had to give her her reliever inhaler or another dose of antibiotics for a chest infection, I confess I allowed myself a short wicked thought in his direction.

Seriously, though, RSV is potentially serious in very new infants; I can understand people not wanting a dose of it.

I do have to agree that a wee photie could have gone along with the text in the OP, assuming baby is well. They all look squished and furious the first few days anyway!

You're assuming that no photo was sent because the GP's have shared the news that their GC's been born, but there's nothing to indicate that the parents do know MercuryQueen.

They look all squished and furious the first few days anyway that's true muffinthemoo but the GP's will still think this is the most beautiful baby in the world, wont they.

Smileless2012

You're assuming that no photo was sent because the GP's have shared the news that their GC's been born, but there's nothing to indicate that the parents do know MercuryQueen.

They look all squished and furious the first few days anyway that's true muffinthemoo but the GP's will still think this is the most beautiful baby in the world, wont they.

I’m assuming that the parents didn’t send a photo because they didn’t trust the grandparents not to announce the baby themselves.

Clearly, they were right.