Post by ldubhawksfan on May 18, 2017 15:53:28 GMT -5
This week has been crazy. 1) politics are crazy, 2) board exodus?!!, 3) clients with deadlines all this week. I can't keep up and have chosen to spend any time I have on here in the politics thread. I'm sad if this place dies.
TTC #1 starting July 2013, RE last 2014 First Angel baby lost July 11, 2014 IUI #1 with injections successful: EDD 11/24/15 Rainbow baby DD born 11/14/15 TTC#2 October 2016 Second Angel baby lost Jan 5, 2017
So happy for so many good appointments. Amazing news!
As for me, I'm actually working during the week so I can have a weekend off with the family for once. We are talking about tackeling Disney, but I'm not sure I'm up for the crowds and the heat. It's been 95+ all week.
This week has been crazy. 1) politics are crazy, 2) board exodus?!!, 3) clients with deadlines all this week. I can't keep up and have chosen to spend any time I have on here in the politics thread. I'm sad if this place dies.
Me too. I have it on good authority that TCF has no intentions of shutting down, but that was given with a warning to have a contingency plan JIC users start posting porn.
I have no intention to leave. I won't be going to SM if this place goes completely dark.
So I had my first appointment yesterday and it was pretty crazy
My ultrasound showed two sacs and two heartbeats! My H has always said he would love twins but we never actually thought it would happen so we are pretty shocked and excited! I know it's such a blessing and we have a really great support system in our families so it's going to be fine, I can't help but feel scared though. Will I still be able to breastfeed? Will I still be able to cloth diaper? How is DD going to handle not just one but two new babies in the house? I need to connect with some other twin moms for sure.
A quick post and run on a busy day. Our appointment went well yesterday. One baby with a fast little heartbeat in the 160s. Due date between 12/28 and 12/30. We were joking with the midwife that if it ends up that we deliver on NYE there needs to be champagne. Now off to clean and pack before our flight tonight.
I'm slowly starting to feel more human again. And just had an appointment with a researcher for a NIH study for asthma in pregnancy. I might regret joining the study by the end of pregnancy, but I'm weirdly geeking out about it right now. Ha! I'm actually interested to see all the metrics changing throughout pregnancy...
This week has been crazy. 1) politics are crazy, 2) board exodus?!!, 3) clients with deadlines all this week. I can't keep up and have chosen to spend any time I have on here in the politics thread. I'm sad if this place dies.
I'm not going to lie, I made an SM account just in case.
I just spent way too much time catching up on the pinned post. Not sure how I feel about moving, but do have all the feels about Naria and her pregnancy. I don't have HG and know how hard life + business + drama can be without puking and feeling terrible all the time.
I know I don't have the history that many of you do, but it feels like it went quickly from everyone being excited for her take home baby to now, everyone calling her an AW and the HG an excuse. Just wishing things didn't go down this way.
Wow, I picked an interesting few days to step away from TCF and just focus on work and family.
I've made it thru about half of the pinned post and tbh it didn't give me feels either way. I have no desire to move bc I'm comfortable here, but if you all leave me and I start talking to myself, I suppose I'll tag along. Which is pretty much what happened with the TD exodus at the start of my last pregnancy. I was way too new back then to even understand the drama.
I made a SM account because I like to hang out in parenting, but I'll do both. They don't have BMBs over there.
This is me as well. I joined TCF when the mass exodus occurred from the Bump. I was on the Bump for two years so I already knew a lot of the posters there who were often on Parenting. Parenting is my main board even though I don't post often. I have been "following" many of these ladies for the past 6 years. I made an account at SM to stay with them.
I am well aware of Naria's MO and her unwillingness to admit fault. I was there for the fallout with Ketchup. I was there for the thread where Naria outed an AE, and I read every word of the state of the board thread.
I don't care about new posters or making money or any of the things that have upset many of the posters. But I feel invested in some of these ladies even if we are strangers, and even if I don't communicate often with them.
That being said, I am not abandoning Dec 17. I will be visiting both places. This is the first BMB that I have actively participated in. I look forward in our journey together.
I made a SM account because I like to hang out in parenting, but I'll do both. They don't have BMBs over there.
This is me as well. I joined TCF when the mass exodus occurred from the Bump. I was on the Bump for two years so I already knew a lot of the posters there who were often on Parenting. Parenting is my main board even though I don't post often. I have been "following" many of these ladies for the past 6 years. I made an account at SM to stay with them.
I am well aware of Naria's MO and her unwillingness to admit fault. I was there for the fallout with Ketchup. I was there for the thread where Naria outed an AE, and I read every word of the state of the board thread.
I don't care about new posters or making money or any of the things that have upset many of the posters. But I feel invested in some of these ladies even if we are strangers, and even if I don't communicate often with them.
That being said, I am not abandoning Dec 17. I will be visiting both places. This is the first BMB that I have actively participated in. I look forward in our journey together.
What's the fallout with ketchup? I don't think I know who that is. I just recently started hanging out on parenting.
I really don't get why people are so interested in turning this into a big profitable thing instead of just being a message board. I didn't read the SOTF except where lungbutter was revealed.
I don't want us to go anywhere! We just got started...
What's SM? I'm so out of the loop.
SM is the Scary Mommy forums. A bunch of posters are trying to move everyone over there because they are unhappy with the direction or lack thereof of TCF.
I do have to say while SM isn't scary, their regs don't seem super happy about the influx of new posters. Really I just wish things would stay how they were, but c'est la vie I guess.
This is me as well. I joined TCF when the mass exodus occurred from the Bump. I was on the Bump for two years so I already knew a lot of the posters there who were often on Parenting. Parenting is my main board even though I don't post often. I have been "following" many of these ladies for the past 6 years. I made an account at SM to stay with them.
I am well aware of Naria's MO and her unwillingness to admit fault. I was there for the fallout with Ketchup. I was there for the thread where Naria outed an AE, and I read every word of the state of the board thread.
I don't care about new posters or making money or any of the things that have upset many of the posters. But I feel invested in some of these ladies even if we are strangers, and even if I don't communicate often with them.
That being said, I am not abandoning Dec 17. I will be visiting both places. This is the first BMB that I have actively participated in. I look forward in our journey together.
What's the fallout with ketchup? I don't think I know who that is. I just recently started hanging out on parenting.
I really don't get why people are so interested in turning this into a big profitable thing instead of just being a message board. I didn't read the SOTF except where lungbutter was revealed.
Ketchup was a Mod on one of the loss/Infertility boards (I can't remember which one off my head) who Naria demodded with no real explanation of why. When members requested a reason why she was no longer going to be their mod they were met with radio silence. Ketchup expressed that she wasn't really given a reason why and that the only time Naria even said anything to her about her posting style was a year earlier. And even then Ketchup said it was more of a friendly comment as opposed to a "warning". The posters all felt very betrayed and traveled off site to FB.
As for the SOTF, there was some stuff in the middle that wasn't very important. But I think many ladies felt that they were promised a board that was going continue to increase their members and that wasn't really happening. This isn't the first time it was brought up about what the plan was and was met with no real plan for the future. Most of the ladies are at the point where they would have preferred that Naria and the other Admins just admit they are over their heads and that the board is only going to be a message board. Other ladies are worried the board will die out.
I do have to say while SM isn't scary, their regs don't seem super happy about the influx of new posters. Really I just wish things would stay how they were, but c'est la vie I guess.
I really haven't spent much time over there so I haven't seen how the new members were welcomed, but I'm sure the regs are concerned because like many of us here they have built relationships with their fellow posters.
Post by sarahandben108 on May 19, 2017 9:23:38 GMT -5
And honestly, I think it was the guilt trips from the Admins that really set people off. I think they would have been more willing to listen and give the site a chance a little longer if it hadn't been for that.
Sounds like there's a lot of history behind the drama, as a brand new poster I can't comment much.
I understand wanting more traffic/new posters to keep the boards going but IMO the added value of places like these is the community, not potential blog like content. I never frequented the bump but I was on the nest before that great exodus and I had honestly never looked at anything but the boards while there...
I hope we can keep this board going, I'm cautiously looking forward to getting to know you all!
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