where has "ask the experts gone" ?

[bossykate]

is it just me or has this disappeared from mumsnet?

WE are the experts!

Well spotted bossykate - the experts have gone on sabbatical for the time being for a couple of reasons - 1. as custardo so rightly says the mumsnet schtick is that we are real mums giving real advice (experienced but not experts, if you like) so the experts always sat a bit uneasily on the site.
2. they weren't getting that much traffic and took quite a lot of coordination. As two of the three of us have in a triumph of bad planning recently had babies we were looking for ways to trim the workload and this seemed a sensible part of the site to cut back on.
Having said that our experts did a fab job and helped a lot of people so we would like to bring them back as and when our resources grow. Does anyone have any strong views for or against?

i thought it was fantastic that you could ask an expert... as well as the other mums of course!

would it be possible to have access to the archived Q&A so that people could at least search there in case their question has already been covered?

Yes, it's in the plans bk,