Holy hell, The Bump is a scary place!

[ladygrey]

People who don't know how to spell "pregnant" (among other atrocious errors), have not one but 3 tickers for the same pregnancy in their signature, and think that they should be dieting on Weight Watchers while pregnant. I wanted to rip my hair out after browsing for just 15 minutes! Maybe my BMB will come in useful, but I don't exactly have high hopes...

It makes me so glad that we have a smart and sensible group of moms (and moms-to-be) here!

[Deleted]

I never went to the Bump with DD. This board (well the old one) was all the info I needed and then some.

[hilwithonelary]

My BMB was pretty good until they moved to Facebook (I didn't follow). Now, I stick to the Natural Birth and Breastfeeding boards.

[pugz]

It is bad over there, very very bad

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There are some real winners on TB.

[gibbinator]

I'm lucky my bmb is very sane. In fact, the board got annoyed when some June 2012 drama rolled over to us.

[drloretta]

I was very selective in the posts I opened on TB. I don't even go there any more except for one (very sane) board.

[satama]

Even without all the crazy, the constant use of "preggo" and "preggers" is enough to scare me away.

[arch01]

mine was good until 75% of them moved to FB, then bashed everyone else who didn't because we all said we didn't want our real names out there. funny enough, there was a spinoff FB group and they got in a huge fight over "leaking" information. i was glad i didn't follow them to FB.

[biogirl21]

I don't have an issue with the Bump. Perhaps it's because I really only visit Trying To Get Pregnant and Trouble TTC?

[badtzmaru22]

I liked the loss boards. They were very helpful for me. My bmb made me weep for humanity.

[madringal]

Oct 28, 2012 23:29:50 GMT -5 hilwithonelary said:

My BMB was pretty good until they moved to Facebook (I didn't follow). Now, I stick to the Natural Birth and Breastfeeding boards.

I really loved the BF board. They are all so great even though they get a billion newb questions every day!

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I lurked on the loss boards. They were helpful for me. Everything else was eyeroll worthy. I ditched the BMB when they stared arguing over putting liscenced character clothes on there unborn babies!! WTF??

[arch01]

Oct 29, 2012 9:32:43 GMT -5 madringal said:

Oct 28, 2012 23:29:50 GMT -5 hilwithonelary said:

My BMB was pretty good until they moved to Facebook (I didn't follow). Now, I stick to the Natural Birth and Breastfeeding boards.

I really loved the BF board. They are all so great even though they get a billion newb questions every day!

Me too. They were awesome.

[Deleted]

The topic boards are nice. If some posters here would try them, it would divert some of the very repetitive posts (cloth diapers and breastfeeding boards are great).

Tri boards and BMB are not the cream of the crop intellectually.

[MadamePresident]

I do like the Breastfeeding and Cloth Diapering boards. I feel like I have learned quite a bit from reading them. Fortunately my BMB isn't crazy and doesn't have a FB group (that I know about). Right now they are all a little repetitive in posts. Its either, "get this baby out of me" or "welcome to baby". In a few weeks, I think it will hopefully get better.

[pugz]

I don't mind people bringing their BF and CD questions here, even if they are repetitive. I got much better support and advice here on BF that I did on the bump. I think because we are closer knit community here.

[ejpint]

The loss boards have been really helpful to me, and lurking on the CD board was very informative. That said, I'm SO glad this board was created as I've gone through TTC/pregnany/loss/TTCAL. I feel like I "know" so many more people here, and it's obviously overall a wicked smart group of ladies.

My BMB actually wasn't terrible for the time I was there, but there are always a few...

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Oct 29, 2012 9:41:24 GMT -5 arch01 said:

Oct 29, 2012 9:32:43 GMT -5 madringal said:

I really loved the BF board. They are all so great even though they get a billion newb questions every day!

Me too. They were awesome.

Me three. I never even tried to go anywhere else on TB, I was too scared. I would go to MM and open every @ post. I am SOOOOO glad I followed ya'll from TN and found this board. I love it!

[Deleted]

There are so many June mamas on MMM we should just form our own BMB over here. The June BMB on The Bump really is atrocious.

[Deleted]

The tri boards on the baby tab here are abandoned. They were set up before the Bump backed down from implementing their "improvements".