We tried to make a Pregnancy board happen around a year ago (??) but lots were resistant to it. People wanted to belong to BMBs, even though they were dead, because it was a rite of passage on TB.
I liked the Pregnancy board but it just kind of ... womp womped.
I can see the appeal of a BMB over the pregnancy board, since it's a place you can stick with even after the birth of the child, and you can continue to hang out with people raising children of the same age (but again, so specific!), but I just don't think it works as well with so few people. I guess at some point after birth people hang out at parenting? I don't know, BMBs seem like a weird place of limbo between GKU and parenting.
I love my BMB (April16), and it's fairly active. I love that we all went through the same pregnancy related things within a few weeks, and now most of our babies are within a few weeks of each other. So we are experiencing baby stuff at the same time. I actually prefer how we are a smaller group (I think maybe 25 active members?) vs. the 100 like on TB.
This conversation comes up every couple of months. TBH, there are so many "rules" on GKU that I checked out and just started posting on parenting where I didn't have to think about disabling siggys and spoilers.
I find it funny that this conversation is happening now, after there was an entire thread devoted to a live blog labour. Nobody even questioned that, but now we're debating whether grads can post or if siggies should be disabled. It's laughable.
99% of the time I only come back here because I've been tagged, And I post because I care about the people here and have made friends over the years.
Do I miss the "good old days"? Sure. But like many have mentioned, this isn't 3T, and I won't sensor my posts over here. If that makes me an asshole, too bad. #sorrynotsorry
Agreed. All joking aside, I think we all love the grads, but the labor live blog was in extremely poor taste to me. There are multiple boards where this would have been an appropriate place to post. Not the least of which was the BMB. It also comes down to playing favorites. Much like a BFP post is supposed to be for "regs only", now we have to wonder if we are important enough for a live blog of our labor. I have kept quiet, because I have nothing against LED, and I'm so happy for her, but that entire post rubbed me the wrong way.
+eleventy bajillion
@walliewhat'syourtag, please to see my massive bump one page back.
Number One: Born 06.16.2009 BFP: 01.17.2014 / MC 02.05.2014 BFP: 03.08.2014 / MMC: 05.07.2014 Dx: Partial Molar/GTD. Benched until 01.2015 Number Two: Born 07.22.2016
Number One: Born 06.16.2009 BFP: 01.17.2014 / MC 02.05.2014 BFP: 03.08.2014 / MMC: 05.07.2014 Dx: Partial Molar/GTD. Benched until 01.2015 Number Two: Born 07.22.2016
Number One: Born 06.16.2009 BFP: 01.17.2014 / MC 02.05.2014 BFP: 03.08.2014 / MMC: 05.07.2014 Dx: Partial Molar/GTD. Benched until 01.2015 Number Two: Born 07.22.2016
LOL. My 21-year-old sister Snapchats with all of her friends. I asked her once why they don't just text each other, and she looked at me like I was crazy.
I haven't been around that long but FWIW I would love for the grads to come and play. I think it would help with the board getting more active.
On a slightly related note (sorry if this doesn't belong here), I have also been thinking that BMBs are awfully specific and some of the newer ones I have been stalking (what?) don't seem to have enough members to be very active. Maybe back when a massive amount of people migrated to the boards there were enough people in each BMB to sustain them but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I know that there is one big general board for each year and I wish that could get utilized more.
We tried to make a Pregnancy board happen around a year ago (??) but lots were resistant to it. People wanted to belong to BMBs, even though they were dead, because it was a rite of passage on TB.
I liked the Pregnancy board but it just kind of ... womp womped.
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
The only reason I still have snapchat is because my kids think the filters are hilarious.
I can't even figure out how to use the filters and all my snaps have a bunch of text on them. I should just text.....but my bestie uses it to send me videos most of the time.
Married 10/10/10! TTC Baby #1 since April 2014 BFP Oct 16 - EP terminated Nov 6 2014 Off the Bench January 2015! BFP #2 June 1 2015 - EDD Feb 12 2016! Baby Boy born 15th February 2016!
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