{"id":172861,"date":"2016-10-31T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=172861"},"modified":"2016-10-31T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:43:23","slug":"stfu-parents-creepy-ultrasound-images-capture-spirit-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/stfu-parents-creepy-ultrasound-images-capture-spirit-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"STFU Parents:<\/b> Creepy Ultrasound Images That Capture The Spirit Of Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, I ran a column that\u00a0dared\u00a0to ask the pivotal question:\u00a0Are ultrasound photos on Facebook still considered overshare?<\/a>\u00a0Bold as that question may (or may not) be, I was sure most people would say they don’t necessarily consider ultrasound pictures overshare, but they don’t understand the impulse so many couples have to share them online, either. Instead, dozens of readers retaliated and said it was completely normal to share sonograms on social media and I needed to recalibrate my definition of “overshare,” which struck me as funny since I’d originally\u00a0had the idea for STFU, Parents<\/a> after chatting with friends about all people we suddenly knew whose profile pictures were of blurry fetuses. Back in 2009, coming across an ultrasound photo on Facebook equated to a furrowed brow or side-eye at minimum. Today, it just signals a flurry of ‘Likes’ and anywhere from 40 to 4000 comments of congratulations. People expect to see ultrasound pictures. They’re commonplace, and nearly 100% welcome. I’m actually surprised when I check Facebook and there\u00a0isn’t\u00a0a 12-week-old fetus chilling in utero in my newsfeed. We have fully transcended the days when sonograms were considered “TMI,” and soon enough, we’ll all be able to ‘hang out’ in our friends’ wombs in virtual reality and take selfies with a developing fetus. I don’t know when, exactly, that will happen, but I’m confident it will be sooner than I think.<\/p>\n

With that said, I did stop writing about ultrasounds pictures after that column ran, because it seemed\u00a0like readers were trying to “teach me” something. I needed to\u00a0look around and realize that a cute, grainy 2-D image — or even a horrifying, nightmarish 4-D image — wasn’t nearly as bad as childbirth galleries, sanctimommy posts, poop pics, or mommyjacking. I was sort of told to “stay in my\u00a0line,” as it was made abundantly clear that no one equated ultrasound images to most other STFUP content. But my overarching point was never to say that all ultrasound pictures (or the intentions behind posting them) are BAD so much as to wonder aloud if there are “right” and “wrong” ways to post them, and if posting them is an indication that someone might be prone to oversharing\u00a0later on.<\/p>\n

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