As her daughter's first birthday approached, a woman called Francie posted a photo of herself to Facebook.
The photo captures the beauty of childbirth, showing Francie kneeling on a bed, a surprised but utterly joyful look on her face, as she holds her newborn baby in her hands.
"We planned a home birth for our second daughter," she told nymag.com.
"She came really fast, less than an hour after I realised I was in labour, and no one made it in time. I yelled at my husband to get the camera when I was about to push her out, and he took two pictures when she was born."
The caption of the photo she posted read:
"Today it's been one year since this happened. Where do I even begin? I am humbled. I am grateful. I am speechless. I am a bad-ass. I am so glad my baby is one year old. And I just can't believe it."
Despite how fabulous the photo is, and how wonderfully it conveys a mother's love for her child, Facebook wasn't happy.
The social networking site took down the snap within an hour.
This is despite the fact that the image was posted on a private Facebook group called NYC Birth, which has just 836 members, all of whom are pregnant, thinking of getting pregnant, or hoping to have a child in another way.
Out of context, the image might shock some people, given that there's nudity and a bit of blood, but for a group whose focus is childbirth, surely there's nothing to be shocked about?
But one member was, and told Facebook that the photo violated the site's terms.
"A Facebook message showed me the picture and said it violated Facebook standards of nudity and then went on to talk about how some photos are sexually explicit," she said.
"It then prompted me to remove any other photos that contained nudity. The two on the prompt screen were me wearing my baby in a carrier, fully clothed."
After she affirmed that none of her other photos contained nudity, she was allowed back on the site and the group.
Facebook's anti-nudity policy is pretty blunt.
All images are treated the same, worldwide, across the site, so the fact that this photo appeared in a private group made no difference.
According to the site's rules, genitals and buttocks are forbidden, as are female breasts showing nipples, but it does "always allow photos of women actively engaged in breastfeeding or showing breasts with post-mastectomy scarring."
That last bit was added in June 2014, when the company changed its policy in response to users’ outrage as part of the campaign known as #freethenipple.
So, is it time for another campaign? Surely this falls under the category of shaming mums for doing the most amazing thing they can do?
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