Come and celebrate our new [thanks] emoticon by saying Thank You to a Mumsnetter who's made a difference. Spot prizes to be won and all!

I'd like to send some thanks to frakkit if she is still around as she really helped when dh lost his job - she offered advice and worked on his cv loads. Thanks to her help dh got a job nice and quickly and hes much happier than he ever was in his old job :)

aw, Ive had a shitty difficult month with my health, and have been questioning my mn use lately, but I'm so grateful and happy to have been mentioned not once, but three times on such a lovely thread. makes me feel like Im not just the irritating bird who rants about how evil clearblue/first response are the perils of early testing. so to duchesse, deemented and largeginandtonic, you've really made my week/month.

to lilredwg, for being such a superstar, in general and all the hutters, past (whether you've graduated or not) and present for keeping me sane and the solidarity.

actually, i love all of you, even the ones i disagree violently with. except the trolls.

to tiktok and hunkermunker for advice on BF nearly five years ago.

Wheb I thanked them at the time, hunker suggested I channel my thanks into helping others so am training as a breastfeeding peer supporter. Thanks all!

I forgot another woolie wonder

ivysedai, for all your work on the blankets too.

to tiktok for her fabulous bfing advice in the early days of DS - I've made it to 2 years, and she was a massive help to start with.

also to the September '09ers, for keeping me sane :o

and a very big to HeidiKat for sending me a jedward CD to help me prove to my friend in the US that the UK, whilst a brilliant place to live, does have its bad points :o

BelleDamesansMerci

I've had a shit enventful few years and had a small breakdown on aibu after dd ruined most of her clothes, belle sent me two huge parcels of truly beautiful clothes and helped me out at a really hard depressing time, dd loves all her new dresses and tells people all the time mumsnet sent her 'presents' and I always smile when going to her wardrobe. Words can't describe how grateful I am every single day!

Aw, thanks Peachy!

right back to Peachy who has been an inspiration and a support with my SN sons.

To all the Nov 11 Antenatal thread who have been amazing since dd arrived into the world spectacularly early, especially voodoomunkee Merlioness and Poppet

To hunker tiktok Mears Foxytocin and Mars for bfing advice and support

to cod custy Reality Hully BOF for making MN a fun place

To Lenin BIWI MmeLindor and all the other Twitter girls for migrating to twitter and making it an alternative fun place!

Loads of others but if we continue, the place will begin to look like Netmums!

to my Life with Twins friends MonkeyMargot, LondonLottie, Gibberingginger, Tartiflette, AtLongLast, Cerubina, holidays2010, & Hippy3

to Mars, Tiktok & TruthSweet for advice on BF

to Mumsnet, I'm so glad I found you

to tiktok for advice that allowed my ds and I to continue bf'ing. Feels like second nature now (nearly a year!)

to SOH. She shared some very calm words with me (under a different nn) about labouring with an OP baby that meant a lot. I wish I could be her friend in rl .

to all those who responded to my cry for help (again under a different nn) when I had pnd and wanted to give my baby back. I was in a bad, bad place - but one that many mn'ers know well, and your words of kindness meant an awful lot. I tend to have regular, doom-laden panics (yup, one going on right now) and you lot are great at responding sensitively.

Custy I sent you

Thank you prettycandles .

to the brilliant babyheave who is now a dear friend. She always manages to make me laugh and I love our crazy chats about anything and everything.

to MJ, for her generosity and her friendship, who supported me while I was having a very rough patch with my family earlier this year and helped me find ways to cope with her wisdom.

also to ConstanceSnoring, just because I like her !

Custy, that's lovely. Haven't seen SM posting in ages.

I'd really like to say a huge to ThisIsYesterday for being such a sweetheart and coming to get our rabbits, when I couldn't meet her because ds1 started being sick about an hour before we were meant to go out and was really poorly all day.

I know it was an extra faff for her and I'm really grateful as it was one of those moments when I just had NO answer to what to do, or how to manage it, and she was already nearly there so it was too late to rearrange.

She didn't bat an eyelid or call me a disorganised eejit. She was very pleasant.

again

to so many MN'ers I can't name just one who make me laugh smile and cry on a daily basis.

to ShowOfHands for being brill and always saying the right thing.

to Lissie who is was such a help when i MC last year.

to MissPenteuth who was lovely enough to get me an orange Wednesdays code which meant that I was able to go on a last date to the cinema with my DP a couple of days before I had DD via C-Section.

We had a lovely evening and that little gesture meant an awful lot to both of us :)

my got to Littlefish

• she has been truly inspiring and totally dedicated to losing an incredible 4 stone plus in the last 11 months and even though her journey is not over - shes still totally focused and dedicated.

LOL - I've come on to nominate littlefish and see she's nominated me.

I've come back to also thank someone called Jennster who I haven't seen for ages but who sent me a white noise tape as I was in the midst of several months of hellish colic with my first baby. Lovely woman.

I too have had support from Hecate, when she has had her own troubles she still took time to talk to me about similar problems I was having and was really supportive.

And don't cry Norks!

Oh there are so many MNers who have helped me and made a real difference to my life over the years, but I have such a bad memory for names!

(It feels unfair to thank only those whose names I remember!)

Mears, Tiktok, Hunkermunker, theoriginalFAB, and many many others who have supported me and helped me over the years.

also to posters who have allowed me to support them. Having depression is shit, but knowing that my experience can help others makes it just that little but significant bit better.

BTW, MNHQ, personally I would have preferred the that Pidge, Knotty et al were agitating for, precisely because of its tongue-in-cheek star-chartiness. The flowers are, dare I say it, a touch...mumsy.

But anyway

to the mumsnetters who donated to SANDS in honour of my baby girl.
to the ladies on the bereaved mothers thread.
to the most fantastically supportive woman on the Feb 2011 threads, I could not have got through the past 7 months without the wonderful support. I am forever grateful.
to wigglesrock who always remembers the dates.

to mrz for always taking the time to answer education questions in a sensible and informative way - many a school related angst has been calmed by her!

A huuuuuuge to AnyFucker and WhenWillIFeelNormal for all their excellent advice on the relationship board. I have been lurking rather than posting myself but the advice they have given to others has helped to save my marriage.

WhenWillIFeelNormal, if you are around still and see this, I know you got some grief and I want to say thank you your advice has made such a great difference to my relationship and my life!

to Hecate for being so supportive about something I had name changed to talk about. Your one sympathetic pm was worth more than the entire flaming I was getting on the board :)

to all the lovely people who take the time to talk to respond to people who are feeling lost and alone.

to all the MN feminists for making me think.

to MNHQ for a site where we can find a recipe, get emotional support, have a rant and discuss pirate sex.

to too many to mention for making me laugh so much that people have come to check that I'm not choking.