400000 views! Controversial sleeping baby photographs?

Photographs of sleeping babies by photographer Tracy Raver. Tracy’s appearance on the Today Show: www.msnbc.msn.com Tracy’s Web Site www.tracyraver.com ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************** How you doin’?
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25 thoughts on “400000 views! Controversial sleeping baby photographs?

  1. I think this video is lovely.I know they are posed after sleeping according to the description,but,really quite naturally so,as if in the womb…..imagine the positions they get up to in that small space ! lol .I seem to be drawn more to their expressions in a lot of the pictures and they look so peaceful and comfy ……I miss the tiny baby stage,gone too quickly.

  2. I sing this every time I rock my baby to sleep, but you can interpret the song as you wish.

  3. Love the pictures….but find the choice of song very inappropriate.

  4. Actually, it is controversial. Babies are supposed to sleep on their backs and these images give the wrong images to mothers.

  5. I don’t think they are controversial…these photos are composites…I am also a photographer and they don’t really hang a baby in a hammock or place them in bowls with legs and arms hanging out, these are composed of two photos combined.

  6. The hanging ones are the controversial ones…..the baby could be in danger. Unless you see the set up…they usually look more scary than they are (mom’s and lot’s of cushions underneath or someone holding them and then photoshopped out.

  7. I think the poster was confused about these being “conroversial”. These babies are actually SLEEPING. The controversial pics are the ones of babies “BORN SLEEPING” aka, dead. I did have a baby who was born sleeping and I am forever grateful to the photographer who came in and took pics of her. Pictures of our little angels keeps them “real” as once gone, nobody ever wants to talk about them anymore or acknowledge that they ever existed.

  8. I don’t know where some of you people came to the conclusion that these babies are dead.  I know this photographer and she takes amazing pictures of newborns. Any of the poses where the babies head is propped up or hanging in a sling were supported by a spotter and then the hands were photo shopped out. This photographer is very particular about safety.

  9. time to ask if my mom put me inside a fucking sock to take an infant picture

  10. And how is this controversial? They’re not dead…DUH. They’re ASLEEP. I’m a newborn photographer and believe me, we take the utmost care in protecting the babies we photograph. That means everything from trimming our nails so we don’t scratch baby, to using assistants to hold baby and then Photoshopping their hands out to create a composite image. That is what any of the “controversial” images are made of. If you Google “newborn photography safety,” you’ll see how these shots are created.

  11. I think this video is lovely.I know they are posed after sleeping according to the description,but,really quite naturally so,as if in the womb…..imagine the positions they get up to in that small space ! lol .I seem to be drawn more to their expressions in a lot of the pictures and they look so peaceful and comfy ……I miss the tiny baby stage,gone too quickly.

  12. I sing this every time I rock my baby to sleep, but you can interpret the song as you wish.

  13. Love the pictures….but find the choice of song very inappropriate.