Pregnancy can be an exciting and sweet time, especially for the person who is carrying the child. A lot of people who are expecting like to share photos of themselves online with their friends and family, especially as the pregnancy continues, but sometimes those photos might feel a little repetitive to the people who are receiving or seeing them.
One man recently shared on Reddit that he finds his wife's sharing of pregnancy photos on Instagram "boring." He's asked her to change her feed, apparently to entertain him more.
He thinks his wife is 'marketing' her pregnancy.
He begins, "My wife (F 34) is currently pregnant and basically she's been really 'marketing' it on her Instagram, almost every story she has or post involves showing off a photo of her belly and I'm really fed up with it."
She's home by herself a lot.
"I've had to work a lot more, some weeks I'm not home for a good chunk of the week, I used to feel pretty happy checking her instagram stories, what she's up to?, what's she doing with our girls?, etc.," the original poster (OP) continues. "However, it's just boring and the same. Even her friends are starting to get fed up with it, she recently posted a picture that was just her smiling and one of her friends commented 'You look lovely, glad it's not another belly pic.'"
He told her to change up her content.
"I decided to talk to her about it and told her I would really prefer to tones down posting photos of her belly, everyone knows she's pregnant and I would really prefer if she would go back to what she did before on Instagram," OP explains. "We got into an argument, her saying it's her personal Instagram, 'don't watch if you don't like it', 'I don't understand what it feels like' etc etc. Now she's kinda in a little huff and not really communicating with me."
He's standing by his decision.
"I can understand she's very excited and happy being pregnant and is pretty bored being out of work, however I really felt I needed to tell her to tone it down, I don't her posting out child's face all over social media either."
People don't get what the big deal is.
One person writes, "I mean, as family and friends, you should probably suck it up and let the person do the harmless thing that makes them happy? It's not like they're getting stuck in a 30 minute conversation about her pregnancy every day, it's photos that you can scroll past in less than a second."
Another person thinks he needs to sit all the way down.
A second person chimed in, "I think a lot of people missed OP’s comment about how he is working a lot, and obviously he is salty about this. Perhaps OP shouldn’t have impregnated his wife again and made is so she can’t work for whatever reason.
"OP needs to think about why the belly pics really annoy him. He, and anybody else, can choose to not look on her Instagram if it bothers them so much. Obviously she loves being pregnant, so leave her alone! She is growing a human being."
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