Why are you on MN, and how did you get here?

[StuntAcorn]

I can't remember exactly but I think it was googling intermittent fasting and reading the posts on here for inspiration.
Now it's become a regular port of call when I need some inspiration for holidays or what to have for dinner! 😅

Honestly it was so long ago - maybe 2001/2? Needed helping with non sleeping child and then supported a friend whose child had certain symptoms and MN was full of helpful advice. Then lots of support whilst living abroad. Been through school, exams, friendships and university plus elderly parents.
DS says his upbringing was littered with advice from MN and Martin (money saving). They seemed to cover just about everything.
Thanks MN.

I’d heard of it in the media somehow so came for a look round when pregnant with DD1.

Stayed for amazing breastfeeding and sleepless baby support, advice on managing two DC, the fab S&B board as I began to emerge from the baby years and care about how I looked again.

Love it now for FWR and the Royal Fam boards (my non-guilty and guilty pleasures respectively) among others.

Is Brian from Hull in classics?

I too am full of disbelief at how low some relationship bars are set - not seen so many perpetually sacked trust fund baby threads. The relationship ones resonate particularly as I and my friends when we were younger were always having the talks to women friends who were stuck with cock lodgers or just generally idiots and we’d wait with baited breath for them to LTB. Luckily most of us are old now and relationship drama is something none of us relish though we have also matured somewhat we hope.

I loved that thread. Everyone name changing. My Little Yoni. Yoni Mitchell. I hunt it out every now and again to give myself a lift.

Just reading all the various posts shows me I don't need to make many threads on here. Learning various and varied points of view - makes you appreciating your very quiet peaceful small life and wishing good for others

Looking for advice on TTC, then later IVF. Still here 15 ish years later.
Stay for AIBU, relationships and propery. Occasionally post employment law advice. It's useful for so much.

I've been on about 8 years. I was on netmums but they got rid of the app and the site is impossible to use, so I came over here and much prefer this.

It truly upsets me, as an Old Lady, what young women seem to put up with. I thought we lived through all the shit so that their life would be better?!

Trust Find Baby is busy with careers for autistic people and how to lie about being sacked - five threads this week alone.

And if Brian isn’t classic, he should be.

The great drama of 2006 around she who must not be named. I was very pregnant at the time and I thought the people on this website sounded like my kind of peopke and they were. 18 years later here I still am…

Got banned from "the other one".

I came by accident- had a baby and was getting newborn advice from net mums. Decided I had my own question to ask so created an account and posted my question. Was about a week before I realised I'd typed it backwards into Google and signed up for mumsnet. I consider it a happy accident though

MN opinions were mentioned in a newspaper article about a high profile missing child in 2003, so I took a look .... and got hooked. Several name changes later (two because people in RL recognised me ) I'm still here.
I regretted not finding the site sooner when my children were younger.

Not just me then!

I joined at a low point to seek help on a toxic uninvited friendship.

A woman had gone out of her way to proactively befriend my partner and I and it soon became all encompassing and toxic, constantly in our space, monopolising us and our time, booking into the same hotels uninvited, triangulation and flying monkeys with a larger friendship group.

I was desperate for advice but as it happened I didn’t need to post here as I got all the answers just from reading others posts and strategies like grey-rock etc. Forever grateful.

Joined/found MN in 2004 when I was 2 weeks into and struggling to breast feed, without some hints and tips, and hearing it was normal from here I probably would have given up.

I have been coming back for advice and support since then - in no particular order

General parenting
Getting a dog, training, health issues, and eventually 10 years later PTS
Education - advice as ds went through exam years and uni applications
Christmas ideas over the years 🎄
Weightloss - a few times, now support using injections
Cancer support when mum had cancer
Support for how to help my dniece
Losing a parent in awful circumstances during covid
Support with Dh losing a parent in difficult circumstances and turning to drink to cope
Redundancy/Pensions
Buying an EV
Wordle
AIBU entertainment!

To name a few!

I can't remember. But I do know I'm never leaving. I'll be dead before that happens.

I was googling something housework/cleaning related, which is weird, because I don’t do a huge amount of either. MN was one of the top hits, so I took a look, found AIBU, and stayed. That was 2014-15.

Not a parent, so I tend to avoid parenting threads/boards.

I don’t post much, but enjoy reading different points of view. Over the years I’ve learned a lot from MN, and have changed my thinking on a number of matters.

Was on Netmums. The discussion board went wrong(cant remember what happened), so i wanted an alternative. I wish netmums came back though cause there's too many wealthy people on here, don't feel like I fit in.

Netmums did an update that made it utterly shit, so after many years I ended up here. I nearly went back after the recent(ish) mn update which has made this a bit shit, only to find that netmums never bothered to sort out the update issues and was still even shitter

I’ve been on mumsnet for years since my dd was a toddler and she’s 25 now. I have had long periods where I wouldn’t be on and have changed names several times.
it has changed so much since the early days. It used to be really funny and 100%supportive. Now you can guarantee whatever the thread title people will pile on to be argumentative and/or take things the wrong way. It’s quite tedious now

Me too. Took a wrong turn, liked the vibe and have been here since.

Tell us more or it didn't happen! 😆

(No, honestly. Would love to know how you can be banned from a parenting forum 😅)

I had been on netmums but was sent the fat balls thread by a friend and found it so funny, especially the replies, that I realised this was much more my place. I think that was about 10 years ago now.

I'm not a parent but stumbled into it via Google when looking for advice for kitchen and bathroom refurbs. That was about 9 years ago and I've stayed for the chat in general but also the feminism threads.

Ive been here since January 2010!

I was very very pregnant and was travelling to the USA for work from the UK. I was googling about how to travel without endangering the pregnancy and the baby and came across MN which i had always been sniffy about before when I saw it referenced in the media.

I have been here ever since.