I'm with you. I've been dipping in to parenting here and there but I can't do a 17 page randoms thread. Maybe we can have a GKU grad randoms thread on parenting? Or we can get a new board.
New board ideas:
GKU Grads Who Miss GKU GKU Grads Who Are Overwhelmed by Parenting NLGKU- No Longer Gettin' Knocked Up LMT- The Land of Misfit TCFers
FFWC: I'm overly concerned with where my new TCF "home" will be when I'm not pregnant anymore. GKU and the TTCAL thread were my home forever it seems. I don't feel like I "fit in" on my BMB. I can't keep up with the fast pace of Parenting. I have a negative view of SAIF after this week's shenanigans (it just seems unwelcoming from an outsider's perspective).
2+ years of TCF and I'm not sure what I'll do with myself if I don't have a "home" after Ollie is born. :/
I feel the same way. I was on 3T and now I mostly post here and PAIF. I don't know where I will post when not pregnant.
I'm trying to be more active on our BMB, but I think I'm just making myself look dumber with all my stupid stroller/car seat questions. Womp, womp.
You'll find that all BMBs are different. My Jan'15 group on TB was pretty good. By the end of 2nd tri, we were down to about 50-60 regs and it was nice (the majority had gone off to FB by then). I'm still in a FB group with about 30 from the TB regs. A lot of us didn't make the jump here or stay long since TB imploded the month we were all busy having babies.
The April and May '17 ones here are nice. They're just different than the Jan'15 I knew. I think size also has some to do with it as there's not the inpour of randoms who stay at the beginning. It's mostly grads of the other boards or those who knew by word of mouth to come here
Post by akraus2015 on Jan 25, 2017 20:32:44 GMT -5
I think I'm just a terrible creature of habit and flock to what is familiar to me. I just need to get used to new faces that will eventually become familiar faces.
Leaving my support network of GKU when I got my BFP was a lot harder than I expected it to be. Coming here was a little bit of a cushion I guess you could say. onesweetworld, mustloveerica, W, @xamountofwords, @marshain, and several others from pregnancy were there with me on GKU through a whole lot of bad shit. They (and others still on GKU) got me through the worst year of my life.
I guess I'm having anxiety about the next level of separation knowing everyone on this board has a time limit here, so to speak.
akraus2015 I felt a bit out of place at my BMB at first since there weren't a ton of people from GKU there, and mostly STMs. But after a bit it got a lot more comfortable. I like that it's a smaller group so we can all connect.
marshian, that also gets me riled up. Great suggestions in here!
I have no worries about the dogs, though we really need to work on the younger one's jumping. Though, I am concerned about one of my cats who is, as PirateCat said it, a jerk. I'm hoping she'll just avoid the baby.
I feel the same way. I was on 3T and now I mostly post here and PAIF. I don't know where I will post when not pregnant.
I'm trying to be more active on our BMB, but I think I'm just making myself look dumber with all my stupid stroller/car seat questions. Womp, womp.
Nope not dumb, I found out about Lucie's lust and baby gear labs from other ladies on here, which I found helpful, plus it's also great to get other people's reqs. There are SO MANY options it's definitely overwhelming. I know last time I researched, and then went to Babies R Us, tried some of the strollers I was interested in and then went welp this seems reasonable let's get this one.
I worry about my BMB because it is so small already. We have maybe 20 members and like 10 people who post frequently. It's a great group of people but so so small.
I think I'm just a terrible creature of habit and flock to what is familiar to me. I just need to get used to new faces that will eventually become familiar faces.
Leaving my support network of GKU when I got my BFP was a lot harder than I expected it to be. Coming here was a little bit of a cushion I guess you could say. onesweetworld, mustloveerica, W, @xamountofwords, @marshain, and several others from pregnancy were there with me on GKU through a whole lot of bad shit. They (and others still on GKU) got me through the worst year of my life.
I guess I'm having anxiety about the next level of separation knowing everyone on this board has a time limit here, so to speak.
I'm very glad this board has revived. It was hard when many of my friends went to Sept 15 and December 15 and we were losing one or two regulars a month. I'm glad that we can all come together here again because I really feel like an asshole going back to GKU because so many of the people that I love there were there with me for my 2 years and I know how I felt when grads would come back and post.
I know we are all Facebook friends etc but it's still nice to know what people are up to throughout the day without having one big group chat. I mean a lot of us were on GKU so long that we were there through audio chats and we'd play CAH and chat all night.
I'd love to have a place for us to come together after the babies are born but then it makes GKU seem like 3T because we don't want to go back there to post about our kids and hurting someone...
I worry about my BMB because it is so small already. We have maybe 20 members and like 10 people who post frequently. It's a great group of people but so so small.
This is April17. We are so tiny and only have 4-5 active posters.
I feel like all of 2017 BMBs could be combined into one 2017 board. I like my BMB and I also like having a larger board like this one and after people have their babies that could be a good option.
ETA I think there is already a 2017 board that you can post on.
I think it's just a combination of not "knowing" hardly anyone on that board (many people here I posted with on GKU for years), plus being one of the only FTMs, and I think the rest of it is just me being sensitive. I feel like many of my opinions/pregnancy style/parenting style type things fall into the major UO category on our board, so I often feel weird.
That didn't really even make sense...I'm pregnant and emotional. Sorry!
Apparently there is a SAIF FB board created because many of the PAIF women didn't feel comfortable going to SAIF given how pathetically oldie v newbie it is.
I definitely don't want to be that person! I need to be better about getting to know people.
I feel like all of 2017 BMBs could be combined into one 2017 board. I like my BMB and I also like having a larger board like this one and after people have their babies that could be a good option.
ETA I think there is already a 2017 board that you can post on.
I feel like all of 2017 BMBs could be combined into one 2017 board. I like my BMB and I also like having a larger board like this one and after people have their babies that could be a good option.
ETA I think there is already a 2017 board that you can post on.
There is??
No one is posting there, but if you go to the 2017 bmb page and scroll down to the bottom it looks like you can post in the 2017 board; all the bmbs are set up as sub boards
I feel like all of 2017 BMBs could be combined into one 2017 board. I like my BMB and I also like having a larger board like this one and after people have their babies that could be a good option.
ETA I think there is already a 2017 board that you can post on.
There is??
Yes. We could have one giant birth year club but I think we'd still have small participation numbers. Sometimes even here it's slow, i tried to recruit with movie nights and CAH. Movie night was a bust and CAH thankfully people from the drinking thread in parenting came because we only had 4-5 pregnants.
Yes. We could have one giant birth year club but I think we'd still have small participation numbers. Sometimes even here it's slow, i tried to recruit with movie nights and CAH. Movie night was a bust and CAH thankfully people from the drinking thread in parenting came because we only had 4-5 pregnants.
Well, hopefully there will be more GKU grads in the coming months to fill out 2017!
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