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Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: NyaChan Date: August 23, 2019, 9:58 pm
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My closest friend from college had a baby last year. We live in
different states so I’ve only met the baby once in person, but
she does text me pictures of the baby. This happens once a week
roughly. I like seein* the cute outfits, but I have a small
problem - I’m running out of good responses! I’ve done...
Cute! (w. variations, how cute or cutie for example)
Awwwww!
Adorable!
<3
...And it is getting really repetitive because sometimes we
won’t text about anything in between so my prior responses are
right there on the screen. Anyone have some new ideas? ;D
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: Aleko Date: August 24, 2019, 4:38 am
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It's not you that's getting repetitive, it's her. I'd suggest
you just keep responding accordingly. So long as she gets some
friendly acknowledgement, I think that's fine. Eventually the
stunning novelty of having given birth to a BABY! will wear off,
her brain will start noticing the rest of the world again, and
she'll find other things to say to you, as she used to do.
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: Hanna Date: August 24, 2019, 6:27 am
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Do you have an iPhone? I really like the option of just putting
a heart or thumbs up on pictures and texts I get when I have
nothing more to say.
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: Catananche Date: August 24, 2019, 9:41 am
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After I've run out of words I use the emoji's my phone has.
First picture of the day gets a written comment, the rest get
hearts, smiley faces, thumbs up or an appropriate emoji.
Christmas picture #2 gets a tree and a heart, #3 gets a reindeer
and a smiley face, #4 gets a santa and a heart... I enjoy the
pictures, but I also run out of things to say.
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: Annabellaustralia Date: August 25, 2019, 12:46 am
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a lot of my friends are on to 1st or second babies and reside in
different states from me and I love getting the baby pics but
I'm more interested in *them* than the babes, generally (I love
to hold babies and play with kids, but if they don't know me,
can't see me and aren't at an age to interact with me, I
generally run out of platitudes/questions about the kiddos
pretty quickly...BUT I love to hear how my friends are doing. I
find myself sending many variations of this: 'oh what a
cutie/sweetheart/little spunk/beauty/clever/handsome little
thing - how are you doing? and how is partner/mothers
group/work/new city/other thing I know they're doing or going
through. Tell me all the things! miss you, love you xx'
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: NyaChan Date: August 25, 2019, 11:08 am
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Well it’s a relief to hear it’s not just me lol. I’ll keep
cycling through the options then. It’s been rough for her lately
with a lot of medical issues in the family so I want to be as
supportive as possible. Thank you!
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: Aleko Date: August 25, 2019, 12:26 pm
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[quote]It’s been rough for her lately with a lot of medical
issues in the family[/quote]
In that case it's very possible that she really wants to
maintain contact with her closest friend but just can't summon
up the lightheartedness to gossip and chat, nor the energy to
compose coherent levelheaded posts about the dire things that
are going down, and the most she can manage is to whang her
latest baby pictures to you every week to let you know you're
still important to her, even though she isn't saying much.
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: DaDancingPsych Date: August 25, 2019, 12:37 pm
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=1296.msg37443#msg37443
date=1566753996]
[quote]It’s been rough for her lately with a lot of medical
issues in the family[/quote]
In that case it's very possible that she really wants to
maintain contact with her closest friend but just can't summon
up the lightheartedness to gossip and chat, nor the energy to
compose coherent levelheaded posts about the dire things that
are going down, and the most she can manage is to whang her
latest baby pictures to you every week to let you know you're
still important to her, even though she isn't saying much.
[/quote]
I have had friends do this. Not just with baby pictures, but
with other important things in their lives. I sense that few
people gush over their lives like I do. That's rather sad to me,
but it still becomes exhausting sometimes. I feel like I have
nothing more to say. I have taken a few approaches.
Just be repetitive. Friend is being repetitive, so I don't worry
much about it.
Comment in a way that causes other conversation. "Is that the
onesie that Jenny got her? Have you heard from Jenny lately?"
Just don't comment. Typically they send another one and I can
comment on that one or I can even send a message when some
silence has occurred. "I haven't seen a new picture of that
baby? Everything going well?"
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: jpcher Date: August 25, 2019, 12:57 pm
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Do you actually talk to friend now and then? Not just snap
chats, text, email?
I'm asking because my DDs often (almost daily) send me snaps and
I don't respond until the next time I talk to them on the phone.
"Oh! That snap looked like so much fun! What were you doing?
When did you go?" Voice conversations, to me, are so much more
personable than a simple response to a snap "Cool!"
Maybe, instead of replying to all the snaps individually, save
your responses to when you actually do talk to her. "Thank you
for all the wonderful photos, baby is . . ."
Get the picture? ;)
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Re: Responding to baby pics - what’s left to say?
By: TootsNYC Date: August 26, 2019, 5:03 pm
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send an emoji. A thumb's-up, or a heart.
That's what I do.
I love, love the thumb's-up. It can mean "saw that" or "thank
you" or "that was really good."
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