Pregnancy/Breastfeeding Pictures

[GrownUp2012]

What are your feelings?

I know there was a campaign on Facebook a while back regards the policy of banning breastfeeding pictures under the nudity rules, and now it appears that someone has had their account deleted for a bump picture along the same lines.

www.facebook.com/pages/Bumps-are-Beautiful-not-Porn/281814288539519

AIBU to think there is no big deal about these sorts of pictures? Or should they be private?

They wouldn't remove any pictures that were complained about unless they breach their policy in some way. The BF ones which were removed, were removed on the basis that they breached their obscenity policy.

It wouldn't surprise me if this was a storm in a teacup and she's been banned/suspended by mistake.

It happened to a friend of mine...FB said her pictures were inappropriate until she pointed out they were photos of her garden Lol.

FB apolosiged and her account was back up a few hours later.

It is what is being said on this group. Some seem to believe that an outright ban wouldn't happen for one offence and usually pictures are just deleted, so there is some debate on that, but I'm not in the middle of it, just raising something of interest I saw on my old Due In group on facebook.

'apolosiged'???? Errr they said sorry

here is a link to what happened with the BF photos a year or 2 back

storm in a D-cup ?

vair good!

I hate facebook anyway. But I just don't get why anyone wants to show their bump or breastfeeding boobs anyway?

It's not like anyone wants to see it anyway. It's TMI.

I'm pregnant and I won't be imposing my body on anyone else. It's called BOUNDARIES having a bit of MODESTY !!!

i put mine on as a lot of my friends and family who dont live near me were asking to see them. some people do want to see bump pics and some people do want to share them.

birds- loads of things I am not interested in seeing Kitty, but it doesn't mean I expect them to be banned. Banning them sends a message they are wrong or offensive in some way. God knows we've all seen photos of massive cleavage and such on FB, why are 'sexy' poses ok and pregnant bumps not?
List of things that I would rather wasn't shared with me and the world on FB
Bare bumps, breastfeeding babies, DC in bath, baby being born.
Sexy cleavage photos. DH in bath.
Nothing wrong with any of it but with such rubbish security (photos are easily saved/ shared, no real control over who sees/passes on stuff despite what they say).
I think they should ban it. Not because it's wrong but because they can't really guarantee privacy.

I wouldn't put pics of that on fb- but I find it quite annoying that I couldn't if I want to because someone else has inappropriately sexualised bf and bumps.

I DID let my sister take a photo of my bf ds2 for an antenatal class. She has difficulty demonstrating the latch without such pics as so few people have ever seen a baby being bf. And if the attitude that it is sexual and embarrassing to bf persists and is perpetuated by fb policy I can't see that changing any time soon.

why should they ban something just because you dont like it? you dont have to view photos or put yours up. but banning things you dont like is a bit much.

I think I have pictures on facebook of my bump, not specifically pictures taken of my bump, but a picture of me taken which shows it, if that makes sense. I also have a breastfeeding picture, because I was trying to get a shot of DD in the first few days on my phone so I could upload it for a friend to see and at the time she wouldn't get off the breast, so I did the whole lot (taking, uploading, showing in MSN chat) while she was breastfeeding, and I kept the picture because the dopey face they have while feeding is so cute. I have scan pictures, and weekly pictures, then monthly pictures to show the progress of her first year. Some are in the bath because she is a proper water baby and loved the water. It's lovely all of it, a proper progress from tiny foetus to three year old in an album shared with the seventy or so people I class as family or friends, and to think any of it is considered contravening the rules due to nudity or obscenity is actually sickening, considering how completely natural it all is and what it's being compared against. Anyone who doesn't want to see that sort of stuff doesn't need to click through my pictures.

i DONT CARE, too much shit going down in the world this is MINOR

Naked bump - no
Clothed bump - yes
DC in bath - no (not fair on them)
Normal breastfeeding i.e pulled up top and baby's head covering breast - yes
Naked breastfeeding - no

IMO

I wish people wouldn't say "pregnant stomachs". Your stomach isn't holding a baby! "Pregnant abdomens" is better. (Sorry, know I'm being pedantic.)

Naked bump - no

Presumably you would feel the same about non-pregnant people's abdomens? Or is it the bump specifically that you find so offensive? What about beer bellies?

To me, photographs of people breastfeeding are like photographs of people on the toilet.

It's a perfectly natural activity but I don't want to see pictures of it. And I'd question the sanity of anyone (a) willing to be in such a picture, and (b) putting it in a public forum.

I consider looking at the faces of miserable, angry, self righteous people as being equivalent to looking at somebody on the toilet. Both are perfectly natural but I don't particularly want to see either.

I doubt FB is going to ban pictures of their miserable faces though.

This is about images of things like pregnant abdomens, women BF, children in the bath etc.

The facebook policy is about images that are obscene or pornographic. None of the things above are obscene or pornographic and to say they are is a really disturbing message to be put out there.

eg why should women have the right to BF in public if it has been accepted that this is an obscene / pornographic activity? Answer = they shouldn't. But of course women can do this, and it is right that women can do this, as BF a baby is neither obscene or pornographic

Totally agree with sq. There is something very wrong with anyone who finds a bump or a bf woman either pornographic or obscene or something that makes them uncomfortable