Im Sooo Sad:(

T.:

I'm sooo sorry about this!!

This has happened to me - not with baby pictures but with a vacation...Empty your purse, then the car you took....

Send an e-mail to the W. who hosted the party and tell her your situation...and ask her to send an e-mail to anyone who attended the party.

For the future to avoid this - you can buy a removable hard drive or even a thumb drive to transfer the pictures over to....you can get a 16G thumb drive at Office Depot for $15 or less...I have a 16G thumb drive on my key chain...so I can use anyone's computer to transfer the photos...

GOOD LUCK!! I hope you find it!!

I would ask the party hostess to send out an urgent email to all the party guets to double check that your camera didn'r get mixed up in the chaos of the party with thier things. And mention how precious the pictures on it were. I can't see anyone at a baby shower not wanting to return your baby pictures to you.

Heart owie – I'm so sorry, T.! That would hurt me, too, so I'm very careful to download all my family pics ever couple of weeks, at latest. And get prints of my favorites every few months.

But don't drop into total despair; you do still have all those memories in your heart. Just not the pictures to make them visual. While you are searching, ask friends and family members for copies of any pictures they have in their albums. I'll bet you will come up with at least a few. And that camera could still show up.

Stop thinking and looking for it. It's WAY to big to be actually LOST. It WILL show up...trust me on this one.

From now on, ALWAYS download your pictures after taking them. I use Walgreens, it's free and always there when I need to find a picture (like YESTERDAY-lol)

OR buy an extrenal hard drive and store pictures there. Waiting to download pictures can be a mistake in case the memory card ends up corrupt.

Keep your chin up, it'll resurface.

Keep us posted.

OMG. I would be very very sad too. I actually had started taking my son's pics on my cell phone whenever I forgot to take the camera. I lost a few pics along with my cell phone but they were just a few.
I always backup all the pictured from my camera every few days. I also upload them online(Picasa) just in case.

Just in case someone did take it, give them an out. Have the hostess forward an email from you or make calls if there aren't too many to every single guest and have the email or hostess say something like this:
"I know most of you had cameras at the shower and now days so many look alike. You might have picked up T.'s camera by accident. She is devastated because it has all of her baby's first 8 months on there...with no back up on her computer! Please pull your camera out and look at the pictures to make sure you didn't accidentally grab hers. She's just in tears about not having all of those memories! You can imagine how her heart is breaking thinking those might be lost forever." See if the email or calls can tug on someone's heart strings.

As a professional photographer, I can certainly feel your pain. Pictures for me (and my clients) are absolutely memories captured that you can never get back. I wish you the best of luck, my dear!

Do you think maybe you left it at the shower???
Can your cousin call & ask her in-laws asap?

So sorry....good luck finding it!

Oh--you did ask already--sorry--your car? the garage? pants pockets? near your purse? In a separate compartment of your purse?

T., I so feel your pain!! Call the person who hosted the shower and ask them to look in the furniture where you were sitting, I'm serious! I lost mine a few months ago and it drove me crazy, I was looking everywhere for it. My 76 year old mother found it (after it was missing for about 3 weeks) tucked in the arm of a chair. Somehow it must have fallen out of my purse while I was visiting her and it was eaten by that chair! I hope you find it, good luck!

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T., I so feel your pain!! Call the person who hosted the shower and ask them to look in the furniture where you were sitting, I'm serious! I lost mine a few months ago and it drove me crazy, I was looking everywhere for it. My 76 year old mother found it (after it was missing for about 3 weeks) tucked in the arm of a chair. Somehow it must have fallen out of my purse while I was visiting her and it was eaten by that chair! I hope you find it, good luck!

oh I am so sorry!!!!!!!!!! do you have friends and family who have pictures who could give you copies or let you borrow the memory cards from theirs so you could download them onto your computer. did you put them on a site like facebook or myspace? if you did then they are not lost forever, you can copy each one, one at a time, onto your computer. it is a pain but you can do it. I know how you feel!!!!!! Our old computer had thousands of pictures of our oldest son and our wedding photos. we got a really bad computer virus and it killed our computer, wiped everything clean, pictures/videos/music, you name it it was gone. thankfully my mom has tons of pictures, plus i have a shutterfly account with some of them and i have them on my FB so they arent lost forever.

:( I'm so sorry! Don't give up!! Keep looking and asking. Maybe someone picked it up. When do you remember having it last? If you know that you had it there...then it has to be there or in your car...did you ride w someone?

I hope you find it!!

I am soooo sorry....Keep checking with them...perhaps it will turn up and someone grabbed it thinking it was theirs or it fell in between some pillows???? Trying to be hopeful..... Hugs :)

i like the idea about asking the host to send an email. i also think asking other family members to email or send you pictures they have of your little one is a great idea too. good luck, i hope the camera shows up!!

How awful. We've lost a camera long ago too. Ous was stolen. You know I was OK with everything else but I lost so many pictures. THey were personal.

Ask your mom and others for pictures of the baby at certain ages.

One day it may just show up.

Im sorry! My cousin had taken all the pics of the birth of my daughter. She asked me if I had saved them and without re checking I said yep. She pushes delete and I check and nope. I didn't save them. Im still kicking myself. O well at least I have the memories :(