‘Facebook’s Mistake Was Blessing,’ Says Mother Of Baby Born With Severe Brain Defect

May 21 2012, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
Facebook was in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons last week after the social networking site deleted photos of a baby with a severe brain defect, and now Breaking Celebrity News can exclusively reveal that some good has come out of banning a grieving mother from posting photos of her dead child.
“Through the mistake of Facebook I’ve been able to reach out to thousands of people who have gone through the same thing or were encouraged by our story,” Heather Walker, of Memphis, Tennessee told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.
As previously reported, Grayson James Walker was born February 15, and survived just eight hours because of the effects of Anencephaly, a rare neural tube birth defect in which a baby develops without parts of the brain and skull.
Despite the site threatening to ban her, Heather said she isn’t going to cancel her Facebook page because it is a way to share and help other people. “I’ve met two women in Memphis over the past week who are pregnant with babies with Anencephaly, and have gotten messages from people all over the world who want