Just a few weeks after creating our Mamas Worldwide Facebook page, I hear that Facebook is still banning breastfeeding photos as obscene, and doing it rather often too!  I find it to be a huge double standard that topless women, fully exposing their breasts, are shown in ads on Facebook, but breastfeeding pics are too obscene.

I have a lot more to say, but PhD in Parenting has already said it all, so I’ll just link to her great post Breaking it down for Facebook.

The Facebook group Hey, Facebook, Breastfeeding is not Obscene, now has over 116,000 members.  Please join up and invite your friends to join, sure, even that surly single guy friend, he can have an opinion on this too!  Before it ran off the bottom of my news feed, I had 13 new sign ups from the invitation I sent to all of my friends, I’m guessing I probably got to at least 20.  And if I Dont care How Comfortable Crocs Are, You Look Like A Dumbass can get 1.2 million members, we ought to be able to get a better showing than just 100,000.

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Are you on Facebook? We’ve just started up our own MamasWorldwide Facebook page. You’ll be able to post your pictures, introduce yourself, and join discussions with other readers.  Come visit us!

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I recently came across a new-to-me parenting website, The Imperfect Parent, and I gotta wonder how I managed to get along without this site for so long.  The contributors and readers accept and even bask in their imperfections, very different to the judgmental parents found at some of those other parenting websites.

What would you do if faced with a house full of kids and animals and a mystery pile of poop in the living room?  Read Margaret Curran’s answer in Whose Poop is This?

Wondering what some toy designers are thinking?  Check out the WTF!?! Toy Roundup.

Feeling dumpy?  Browse their MILF Handbook.

What’s your favorite parenting website?

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One of my favorite European online shopping sites is the UK-based Lula Sapphire. In addition to carrying great products from the likes of Boob, DwellStudio, Ida-T, Katvig, Manhattan Toy, Stork Sak, Swaddle Designs, and Zutano, among many others, they claim to be the first carbon neutral mother and baby retailer in the UK. They deliver worldwide and I’ve been quite pleased with their service and delivery times the many times I’ve ordered (too many times to admit to).

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I, for one, can’t get enough Scandinavian design. I love the clean lines of the furniture and the colorful children’s clothing designs. If I could afford it, I’d have Oliver decked out in a Scandinavian wardrobe. Yep, that’s right, the stuff is also a little bit more expensive. Also, when comparing to the clothing my family sends from the US, it’s much leaner. This is no problem for us, as Oliver is on the thin side. You could fit two of him in the 12-18 month old outfits from Carter we just got from a relative.

Now, unfortunately, my knowledge of German doesn’t help much when it comes to reading Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or Finnish, so when I want to buy some Scandinavian kids clothes, I head over to NordicKids.co.uk. The prices are actually a little lower than the German online shops I looked at, and they ship worldwide.

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My favorite clothing line for kids, Tea Collection, has just launched a blog focused on raising little citizens of the world.  I figure it’s something that is of interest to us mamas worldwide, so check it out: Tea Blog.

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