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?

I really can't remember how I landed here. According to dd I've been "on mumsnet my whole life". She's 17 so that's not strictly true, but it's not too far off!

A friend asked me to review her business on the travel board.

My son wouldn't sleep. He was around 6 months old he's 14 now and I'm happy to say he mostly sleeps through the night when not on Xbox

The Tumble Tarts Telly Totty/50 Shades of Tumble threads

My first miscarriage in 2007 😢. It was a big learning curve in terms of how I expected to be treated by medical professionals and how badly many of us do get treated during 1st trimester losses.

Very boring, but when I had my DC. I did a bit a lot of googling when I was pregnant and came across a couple of threads. I didn't think I could join before But now I've realised there's a lot more to mumsnet than just parenting, and that there is a few people on here who don't have children.

I was asked to do regular child care for dgc about 12 years ago. I had just discovered the internet and I saw a reference to Justine somewhere. I wanted somewhere to go for advice about babies as I was in my 60s at the time.
I’ve had ups and downs but made some good rl friends via Mumsnet.

The Guardian and SWMNBN

I came in 2012 whilst looking for step children advice on google. Stayed around. Cancelled account a few times when mn was hacked but I've been here even if not posting.

@gottachangethename1 it hadn't changed 9 years later . m hoping things have improved in the 2.5 years since my MCs. It was (and still is) hell to me.

I honestly can't remember what brought me here. I've been on MN forEVER! Possibly since 2007 when I was TTC DS2, maybe before then. God that was a long time ago... and I'm still here

It has changed A LOT! Or maybe I have. It used to be really intimate, friendly, no harsh judgements, and barely any trolls. Oh how I miss those days.

I still have the old Classic MN, I can't bring myself to change it

The recurrent miscarriage threads. Really helped and since finally having my kids - I’ve stayed!

From a netmums Christmas thread. You guys had been slagging off their ‘hauls’ and they were a bit offended.

A friend on Facebook kept linking to funny AIBU threads. Eventually I succumbed.

No DC so don't normally veer much from AIBU and S&B. Occasionally dip into others.

Can’t quite recall,but I’ve been here since mn used to ask for members to make financial contributions

It has changed A LOT! Or maybe I have. It used to be really intimate, friendly, no harsh judgements, and barely any trolls. Oh how I miss those days

I’m afraid I don’t recall mn like that,at all

In fact it was really cliquey with a few big name posters who had shoals of acolytes, to the extent numerous threads would be simply written to say how funny/great they are

New posters being berated with “search the archives, we have done that already”

And as you’d encounter in any group, plenty of harsh judgements

Scams and nonsense on the for sale boards.

There were Huge dramas, cliques, except it’s been airbrushed as if it never happened

Penis beaker. I stayed to lurk on the feminist boards.

It has changed A LOT! Or maybe I have. It used to be really intimate, friendly, no harsh judgements, and barely any trolls. Oh how I miss those days

I was here then. I honestly don't remember those halcyon days!

There have always been peaks and troughs here but I suspect that's my tolerance levels fluctuating rather than anything else

The Guardian.

It kept being mentioned on Woman's Hour. I came out of curiosity and stayed for The Litter Tray and the bunfights in AIBU.

I couldn't remember when my first post was so I had to search - it was in January 2010 when DS was just coming up to his second birthday, but I had been a lurker for a while. He had been a fairly 'easy' baby and I needed advice as he started to become a toddler and a challenge!

Stayed for the now defunct BESH threads when ttc number 2 was getting me down, never did get pregnant again sadly, but made some firm friends who are spread across the country and with whom I speak nearly every day on Facebook in our group.

I had just had an amnio and was googling for information because they had mentioned DSs femur length - we were frantically trying to piece together some information. We had lost our previous baby at 18 weeks due to a chromosomal disorder. Mumsnet came up in the search results.

I was soon distracted by the poo pouffe and haven't really left .

DS turned out to be fine. He was born with the longest legs I've ever seen on a baby and at 9 is almost as tall as me. Takes after his dad!