What's your Mumsnet History?

[BikerWife]

Just being nosey really

I came across MN in about 2006 when I was searching for info on childminders vs after school clubs. DC are now 25 & 19!

I've hung around active convos and at times posted quite a bit in the doghouse & chicken keepers (I Remember both those areas being created) as well as teenagers and step parening.

Had a break for a few years and came back during covid. I think I've had about 12 usernames.. I had a 'forever name' but lost it after some security problem with the site a few years ago.

I like it here it presents me with different viewpoints and challenges my thinking about subjects. I reckon I've been spending maybe an hour a week on here the last few months. Think this is about the 5th thread I have ever started!

Back in 2010 a colleague linked a thread - something about the funny things kids say - it's in classics! I laid in bed next to my partner (now husband) my shoulders shaking with laughter and trying not to wake him!

I'm going to go and see if I can find it now!

Joined about 3 or 4 years ago, after someone shared the penis beaker thread to Facebook, have been mainly a lurker ever since. I think the first thread I ever responded to under another username was what I thought was a lighthearted comment about DH being a bit crap around the house. Big mistake, I got flamed, had my post quoted and told my DH was a misogynist woman hater and I should find myself a real man. Put me off posting for quite some time!

Some threads wind me up, but on the flip side I have learned lots and changed my thinking quite considerably on other matters. It’s been interesting.

MN was repeatedly slated on another website I was on Digital Spy so circa 2012 I decided to see what all the angst was about and I much preferred it here, so I stayed!!

I had heard of mumsnet but it wasn't until last year, somebody randomly put a link up to a thread on Twitter that I joined

It happened to be a thread about the foster mum that looked after a drug dependant baby and she did a great job with the baby. Then I found out from elsewhere that the poster had passed away some years earlier

14 years ago - DD about to become a teen and the June 07 group was fantastic. We’re largely still in touch.
Many of my RL friends were found on MN originally. In the days of meet-ups and Secret Santas.
MN helped me relocate. It supported me when my marriage broke down. There’s a lot of good done here. I’ll always be grateful.

That was EarthMotherImNot, such a wonderful lady www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/922821-drug-dependant-baby-advice-needed

I remember the late lovely CatThiefKeith (so sad as what started out as an ear infection turned into meningitis) & some of her hilarious threads especially the one where she kept finding empty bottles of wine & a used wine glass in her kitchen when the house had been empty all day. I think it was down to her secret alcoholic neighbour.

Must’ve been 2017. Mum had died and ds was little. I had the bright idea that there ought to be a website for parents to ask dumb child rearing questions and get general advice.

I went online to have a poke around and found this site and the other one. It could’ve gone either way...

@DDIJ

Are you ok? 💐☕🍷🍰

Gosh, it’s been a loooong time....

I was here for nest of vipers, quiches, cutted up pear and Cod....used to post quite prolifically and even went to quite a few meet-ups (wearing my big girl brave pants) but these days I mainly lurk I started with a terrible username (something like “fluffymummy” ) - this is my third or fourth user name, although I’ve not changed it in about 10 years. I joined just before DS was born, about 15 years ago, and remember feeling sad I had missed the antenatal threads, but got so much help and support from the August babies group when he arrived, and was so grateful for the wonderful support all from first blue line onwards with the other 2!

Dh was a huge fan & would get me to post whenever we needed advice on anything, and gosh, we’ve been lucky enough to take part in some fab product trials along the way too. I luffs MN

Came when I was worried I was miscarrying (I was). Was on the TTC after miscarriage thread, then pregnant after miscarriage. Then joined an antenatal thread which turned into a wonderful, supportive, lifeline of a Facebook group. I think I stay mostly because those women have become so invaluable to me and I know there's more like them out there. I also got wonderful support on AIBU when I had severe PND, despite posting in anticipation of a thorough kicking (which at the time I felt I deserved). The politics here thoroughly depresses me at times though.

I have been here in various guises over the years, I have been here for 17 years.

I googled is PC Plum gay, came upon and filthy thread and knew I had found my people.

In those days the board barely moved and you had time to form life long friendships, I have been fortunate to form several.

I googled "Asperger's Syndrome" in 2001 when ds1 was 8 and found mumsnet.

I posted with the same name for 18 years, without a single warning, suspension, or threat, but was banned for asking a question in a webchat. I was banned without warning - I didn't get "three strikes".

MNHQ have allowed me to come back as long as I don't post anything contentious, so I'm obeying the rules. Which is a pity really, as I think I contributed a lot on many boards, especially teenager and adoption, where there is a steady supply of new posters in very difficult positions. However, I'm scared of a repeat permaban so I'm not posting anywhere much

I'm off for another namechange, as I can no longer post as me on the board without being singled out for repeat reporting, as have many of the posters on FWR.

The penis beaker thread brought me here lo
It was mentioned and linked in an aussie parenting forum, that thread bought a few aussies here from what i understand from the aussie site.

I stay for the robust conversation, random oddness and good people

@0hforfoxsake

14 years ago - DD about to become a teen and the June 07 group was fantastic. We’re largely still in touch. Many of my RL friends were found on MN originally. In the days of meet-ups and Secret Santas. MN helped me relocate. It supported me when my marriage broke down. There’s a lot of good done here. I’ll always be grateful.

I joined the same time, same group

Also arrived here in about 2006. I was doing an access course in Business and it was mentioned by our marketing lecturer.
First thread I remember following was the shiny penguin thread, although no idea when that was.
TBH, I spend a lot of time browsing here daily. I even have some ancient threads saved in a Word document that have long since vanished as they were from Chat back when stuff used to be deleted after a certain number of days.
I’m basically only a lurker though, mainly I as suffer from social anxiety/avoidant personality disorder which also affects me online, and only made an account 3 years ago when I started comping.
Swiftly got burned when that first account was deleted after I accidentally broke a rule about posting referral links. Obviously I’ve since made a new one (ha!), but that put me off trying to interact as I wasn’t even given a warning before just being booted off.
Oh, and wasn’t a mum when I first arrived, and unlikely to be one as I’m now over 40.

It was 2011 while on maternity leave with DD. I’m pretty sure it was when Riven was in the press, I read about her somewhere else and that brought me to MN. I then got sucked into MrsDeVere’s thread about her neighbour’s ‘shed’ and never left.

Googled something pregnancy related and ended up here. Baby will be 20 in November. I’ve had about 6 user names.

@Clawdy

HavelockVetinari what is FWR?

Feminist Chat - it used to be Feminism and Women's Rights

I joined in 2018 when DH told me he had fertility issues so I wanted some guidance, stayed as MN pretty much got me through ivf, subsequent pregnancy and other fertility related issues since.

And generally kept me entertained during Mat leave and lockdown

I was on other forums and whenever something really crazy happened on mumsnet, someone would link it. I started coming straight to mumsnet to watch the train wreck for myself!

I joined because I followed the 'Zombie' and stayed.

Ah Zombie and the zombie cats. I miss her.