What first brought you to Mumsnet?

[HenryInTheTunnel]

Interesting first post, OP!

My very first query was about step parenting when i was in a relationship at the time with someone with a child from a previous rel. I didn't post but liked to read about all the potential pit falls and suggestions of how to approach that situation. I then got sucked in to the chatter on Active Conversations and have been here ever since, about 10 or so years now.

What first brought you to these murky waters?

A miscarriage in 2003 bought me to Mumsnet. I just ended up staying! Crikey that's a long time! And I've had the same name since 2004!!

Penis beaker (I think via the mumsnet madness twitter account?)

Struggling to conceive around 10yrs ago. Great advice and a kind response when I needed to rant. I'm sure the outlet saved my marriage!

I came because of Zombie.

I've definitely worked my way round a few boards over the years. I like the different opinions, the lack of consensus appeals to me!

A Mn thread was the first thing to come up when dp Googled 'breastfeeding, bleeding nipples'. DS was tongue tied and 3 days old.Happy Days.

Mornington Crescent.

I got kicked off an alternate, similarly named site......

@davisday oh no, hunni! Hugzzz xoxox



Looking for advice for my sister I found the SN boards, and the first thread I read on there was by Cupoftea about her daughter Beatrice. I’ve never forgotten her story.

The Bounty debates forum

A step parenting concern about my overweight SD.
I'm so glad I did join as I find so much advice on here about all sorts of things I didn't know I needed advice for. It has brought me many laughs also!
I've not got into any scrapes so far neither which is surprising considering I'm quite blunt. 😂

Threads which appeared in Google, when looking for advice on various gynae issues. The AIBUs I saw in the trending threads then got me hooked.

for cojmum

When I lost my dad very suddenly and desperately needed to talk to other people who had been though the same - Mn appeared in a search for bereavement forums.
That was 10 years ago and I’ve dipped in and out ever since through breastfeeding and weaning, relationship issues and general nonsense.

I googled ‘is this my mucus plug ‘ which brought me to an mn thread !
I then lurked and read all sorts of newborn advice before eventually posting myself .

That was all about 7.5 years ago now.

Agree with others that you end up moving boards over time but I use loads of them still

My then gf sent me a link to a thread in AIBU in which the OP opined that men who use a public swimming pool in the daytime are paedophiles. I joined to reply but couldn't find the thread.

I stayed initially because of Zombie and her dustbin, whose inhabitants at the time included MrGin, Stratters and Bupcakes. I ran with the cool kids back then :o

Like davisday, I was on a similarly named site and it was driving me mental with its “you sound like a gr8 mumma hunni” and its little ticker tape pregnancy progress twee shit and the fact that they all had conniptions if someone swore. They kept referring to Mumsnet as vipers who are bitchy and foul-mouthed and I thought “these are my people”.
Now whenever anyone posts anything a bit ‘hun’, I want to point them in another direction.

@GetOffTheTableMabel 🤣🤣

I feel the same when I see xxx at the end of posts.
No we don't need kisses here.

When I felt desperately out of my depth with a non-sleeping, colicky first baby.

That "baby" is now 18 years old and cooked dinner for the family tonight.

I was also on other previously mentioned site. I couldn’t bare the “huns” and the sheer amount of people that had their “kids snatched by Ss!!!” Or “Sw Is a LiAr”.

Snob I know.

Slugs indoors. More name changes and years ago than I like to admit...

My friend told me about the nanny and pastagate. I was hooked after that.

A relative recommended it to me when I was pregnant with my DS (he is now 17 ) - I often wonder if she is on here, I've never, ever mentioned it to her and it would be a bit embarrassing if she recognised me.