{"id":76,"date":"2021-04-30T06:37:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T06:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/crawlomatic-test\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/this-womans-maternity-shoot-with-her-thesis-is-pure-joy\/"},"modified":"2021-04-30T06:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T06:37:58","slug":"this-womans-maternity-shoot-with-her-thesis-is-pure-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/crawlomatic-test\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/this-womans-maternity-shoot-with-her-thesis-is-pure-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"This Woman\u2019s Maternity Shoot With Her Thesis Is Pure Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published June 4, 2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The rise of social media has drastically changed the way that we share our lives with others. Unfortunately a lot of the time that means oversharing <\/em>(like when your distant uncle asks everyone on Facebook to weigh in on a new weird skin thing he found on his neck) or constantly sharing things that nobody cares about. <\/em>Remember when all anybody tweeted was stuff like \u201cgoing to get coffee #starbucks\u201d? Yeesh… Dark times.<\/strong> But social media has also made it so we can broadcast important moments in our lives to anyone and everyone at lighting speed, and in some pretty creative ways. <\/p>\n

Of all the big announcements one can make on the internet, nothing gets people more fired up and willing to go balls to the wall than pregnancies and new babies. <\/h4>\n

Professional photoshoots in fields of flowers, perfectly filtered photographs of potential baby names written on chalkboards, cellphone videos of burly men opening gift boxes and pulling out shirts that say \u201cnew grandpa\u201d and immediately weeping, there\u2019s no shortage of ways to tell the world that you\u2019re gonna have a baby. <\/p>\n

But… here\u2019s the thing.<\/h3>\n

Baby announcements were cute at first. At first.<\/em> But we passed the point of it being quirky and cool and novel long ago.<\/em> Now, it\u2019s hard to be inundated with rapidfire posts featuring thousand-word captions with indents and citations on Instagram and do anything but groan and go, \u201coh my god<\/strong> how long is this going to take me to scroll past.\u201d It\u2019s gotten A LITTLE OUT OF HAND FOLKS, and I hate to say it but someone has to: if you\u2019re having a baby and you\u2019re excited about it that\u2019s great. I\u2019m happy for you. We\u2019re all happy for you. But also? Tone it down, chief. <\/strong>Just a tad. Just a SMIDGE. <\/p>\n

Please. We\u2019re tired. We\u2019re all just so tired.<\/em><\/h5>\n

Why don\u2019t we make the same kind of spectacular announcements for other great feats in our lives?? I\u2019m sick of babies. I want to gush over professional-grade photos of some guy named Bryce wearing a daisy crown, looking all maternal with soft lighting, to commemorate the fact that he finally makes enough money to move out of his shitty studio apartment above a pawn shop. <\/p>\n

Or how about moments like this \u2014 the day twitter user Sarah Whelan Curtis<\/a> finally finished her thesis.<\/h3>\n
\"\" <\/source><\/picture> <\/span> <\/span> Courtesy of twitter\/SarahWCurtis<\/a><\/cite> <\/span> <\/figure>\n

LOOK HOW PRECIOUS THAT IS! <\/h4>\n

What a beautiful, bouncing baby academic paper. You can really tell she loves it.<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/source><\/picture> <\/span> <\/span> Courtesy of twitter\/SarahWCurtis<\/a><\/cite> <\/span> <\/figure>\n

She\u2019s just glowing \u2014<\/em> and so she should be. As she put it, this was \u201cthe longest labor of her life.\u201d<\/h3>\n
\"\" <\/source><\/picture> <\/span> <\/span> Courtesy of twitter\/SarahWCurtis<\/a><\/cite> <\/span> <\/figure>\n

They\u2019re so adorable at this age… It probably still has that new printer paper smell.<\/h3>\n
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This is brilliant, I\u2019m going to start putting mine in all the family photos and refer it it as my eldest. Not only longest labour but longest time during which folks asked \u201cwhen\u2019s it due\u201d. https:\/\/t.co\/XebhMF6vqu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dr cinnamonremote (@cinnamonremote) June 4, 2019<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n