Izzy's Mum

Some of you have already noticed that we have launched our site! If you haven’t already seen it, go and take a look.

We will be tweaking the site over the coming weeks, and of course adding more products. For now we have the great Mamascarf nursing scarves, a great range of breastfeeding tops from Canadian company Momzelle, and a growing range of nursing necklaces from Lait D’amour.

In other news we’ve also got a more memorable address on Facebook. You can now find us at www.facebook.com/izzysmum.co.uk. While you’re there why not become a fan (if you haven’t already).

We’ve just heard that the social networking site Facebook as threatened to shut down a group which campaigns against Facebook’s censorship of breastfeeding mothers.

The group “Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding is Not Obscene! (Official petition to Facebook)” has nearly 250,000 members and was set up when users started being banned from Facebook for posting pictures of them breastfeeding their children. On the 2 Feb administrators of the group received emails from Facebook staff threatening to shut the group down for copyright infringement reasons. When challenged Facebook backtracked and said it was for “posting nudity or sexually explicit material and sending harassing messages to members”. They won’t be any more specific than this.

The group does have 5,900 photos, most of which are of mothers feeding their children, but all are tasteful and they don’t show excessive nudity. Group administrator Debra Balcaensays “To shut the group down would not only end valuable support, but give a message to the world that breastfeeding babies are somehow obscene. It’s just absurd.”

The group has issued a Press Release, and has asked that people spread the word in any media possible, in the hope that Facebook will allow this group to continue.