GTKY--How did you end up on TB?

kwinkle1980 · July 2012

I ended up here after googling cheap wedding recpetion ideas, and came accross the Knot. I used their wedding planning tools but never knew about the message boards.

Later, when I was just a few weeks KU, I remembered the Knot had a Bump site for pregnancy, so I signed up for that weekly email and posted on my local board for a wile. It was really slow, and someone suggested I check my birth month. I have been here ever since!

LadyGolfer523 · July 2012

I posted on TheNests Getting Pregnant board while TTC. I went to TheBump when I found out about my IF diagnosis and needed help/suggestions/answers.

When I got pregnant I posted on PAIF, multiples, and a little bit here.

MrsT2008 · July 2012

I was on TK starting back about 5 years ago (well, exactly 5 years ago actually - we got engaged 7/14/07). moved to TN when my anniversary board moved over. came to TB when we started TTC

catlackey · July 2012

I ended up here totally by accident when I found out I was pregnant. I think I googled pregnancy forums and ended up here. I was hooked instantly.

emilyerin13 · July 2012

I signed up on The Knot shortly after becoming engaged. We had a very small wedding so I only used TK for some ideas.

I didn't know about TB until I miscarried my second pregnancy and went online in search of support for loss. Once I was pregnant again, and felt "safe" enough to read more about my pregnancy I'd read TB daily but was mostly a lurker until recently. So glad I'm here!

uncharch7 · July 2012

i started on the knot several years ago. back when there was no post bumping, blue balls/nesticles, and even before that there were blue blocks that got filled in for top 10/25/50/100/500 etc posters, when the search function worked... my how times have changed.

ccip82 · July 2012

Great post kwinkle!

I too used the knot while planning our wedding, but never knew about the message boards other than people posting their honeymoon stories which I loved looking at!

I never knew about the Bump until I got my bfp and was goggling "how big is baby" and found this website...it than took me a while to figure out their was message boards.

JammieJk · July 2012

I had a miscarriage in 2010 and found TB when googling for support forums. When I found out I was expecting and due in 12/11, I found this board.

kwinkle1980 · July 2012

uncharch7:
i started on the knot several years ago. back when there was no post bumping, blue balls/nesticles, and even before that there were blue blocks that got filled in for top 10/25/50/100/500 etc posters, when the search function worked... my how times have changed.

What are blue balls/nesticles?

And maybe you know this too: what are those 8 little rectangles under the avatar that are sometimes green?

uncharch7 · July 2012

kwinkle1980:
uncharch7:
i started on the knot several years ago. back when there was no post bumping, blue balls/nesticles, and even before that there were blue blocks that got filled in for top 10/25/50/100/500 etc posters, when the search function worked... my how times have changed.

What are blue balls/nesticles?

And maybe you know this too: what are those 8 little rectangles under the avatar that are sometimes green?

the 8 little rectangles are the top posters... the more you have, the more you've been posting, BUT they've been "frozen" for about 2 years now, kinda like the "most active posters" on the right side.

blue balls/nesticles were the nicknames for those little rectangles back when they were balls. i want to say this was back in 2007ish, but some others who have been around for eons may have a better memory than i do.

CountingUp · July 2012

I joined theknot in late 2010 when we got engaged (September). I don't know if I even posted back then. I was just there for the "to do" list for the January wedding

-T- · July 2012

I too, started on TK. I lurked on TN for a looong time, then before TTC, lurked on TB. I was kind of obsessed, ok, I still am. It's just such a great way to find out what's "normal" and know that other ladies experience a lot of the same things.

ellie9487 · July 2012

I was the MOH in my best friends wedding and I found the Knot when I was helping her plan. I got a BFP about a year later and remembered the Bump from her wedding planning.

moosebaby2011 · July 2012

I started with a knot account. I didn't post, but I lurked quite a bit. Then when I was TTC I started reading the boards here, and then started posting (a little) when I found out I was pregnant. I still read more than I post but definitely post more here than I ever did on the knot.

lovetoknit26 · July 2012

MrsT2008:
I was on TK starting back about 5 years ago (well, exactly 5 years ago actually - we got engaged 7/14/07). moved to TN when my anniversary board moved over. came to TB when we started TTC

We got engaged on 7/13/07, so I signed up with the Knot then too! When we decided when we would start trying, I participated in the TTGP board for awhile. Then I moved over the birth month while pregnant, but then stopped posting till just a few days ago!

ealauber · July 2012

Started with using the knot while planning my wedding. Remembered they had a bump page too and headed over while ttc.

MrsT2008 · July 2012

uncharch7:
kwinkle1980:
uncharch7:
i started on the knot several years ago. back when there was no post bumping, blue balls/nesticles, and even before that there were blue blocks that got filled in for top 10/25/50/100/500 etc posters, when the search function worked... my how times have changed.

What are blue balls/nesticles?

And maybe you know this too: what are those 8 little rectangles under the avatar that are sometimes green?
the 8 little rectangles are the top posters... the more you have, the more you've been posting, BUT they've been "frozen" for about 2 years now, kinda like the "most active posters" on the right side.
blue balls/nesticles were the nicknames for those little rectangles back when they were balls. i want to say this was back in 2007ish, but some others who have been around for eons may have a better memory than i do.

yes, the rectangles replaced the blue balls/nesticles back around 2007/2008 I believe. it was a way of ranking the most active posters but had to do with where you were on the list, not how many posts you actually had. So if you were in like the top 10, all your nesticles were filled in, and so on.

lckcdc3 · July 2012

I used the knot back in 2006, but didn't use the message boards, not even sure if they had them back then. I lurked for a long time on TB when we started TTC in 2007. Once we had trouble TTC I started posted on 3T back in 2008 and that was my long time home until got pregnant.

TiffJ21 · July 2012

I was also on TK while planning my wedding. I then moved over to TN and posted there for awhile. When we started ttc I moved over to TB, I switched my screen-name at that time too because my old one had too much information in the name.

wychets · July 2012

catlackey:
I ended up here totally by accident when I found out I was pregnant. I think I googled pregnancy forums and ended up here. I was hooked instantly.

This exactly!

MrsT2008 · July 2012

RedheadBaker:
I signed up for The Knot while wedding planning, before The Nest and The Bump existed.

yeah, I remember when TN came about and I was constantly browsing around all the articles

dbob · July 2012

Same as most here - started on the Knot, lurked a lot on the Nest but wasn't really an active poster, and then when we started TTC I started lurking a lot and posting a little on TTGP.

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Kelly1109 · July 2012

I had a Knot account years ago when wedding planning but competely forgot about it. I think I was googling something like "due date calculator" because I signed up pretty much as soon as I got my BFP with DD.

And I have never noticed those blue boxes before today!!!

A2009 · July 2012

When my pregnancy was confirmed with my first son in 2008 I received "The Bump" magazine in my bag of swag from the OB's office. I actually first came to the site for recs on baby products and lurked for a while before I joined. I still mostly lurk

alieb82 · July 2012

I used the knot a bit when we were getting married, and then my sister told me about the bump when I was first pregnant. I loved hearing that all you ladies were going through the same things as me...same symptoms, questions, fears, etc... It was so reassuring.

lageorgiapaperie · July 2012

I found out about The Knot a loooooong time ago. I was never a part of their forums, though. B/c of that I knew about TB, too. As soon as I got my BFP I started going on pregnancy websites and saw the TB forums and decided to join. I was so glad I did b/c I love being on here, you guys kept me sane while I was home all day during my pregnancy

cookinitup · July 2012

kwinkle1980:
I ended up here after googling cheap wedding recpetion ideas, and came accross the Knot. I used their wedding planning tools but never knew about the message boards.

Later, when I was just a few weeks KU, I remembered the Knot had a Bump site for pregnancy, so I signed up for that weekly email and posted on my local board for a wile. It was really slow, and someone suggested I check my birth month. I have been here ever since!

Same story here!

brookie9 · July 2012

I joined after BFP. I can't remember the details but I think I just started out wanting to get the weekly email about baby's development then stumbled onto the BMB.

waiting4bfp2 · July 2012

A IRL friend and I were both having IF problems..she introduced me to 3T on the Bump.

kanga47s · July 2012

I used theknot. Never really used thenest. Found thebump when I was pregnant but I can't remember how I found the message boards. I very, very really used theknot boards before this.

kelsea1031 · July 2012

lageorgiapaperie:
I found out about The Knot a loooooong time ago. I was never a part of their forums, though. B/c of that I knew about TB, too. As soon as I got my BFP I started going on pregnancy websites and saw the TB forums and decided to join. I was so glad I did b/c I love being on here, you guys kept me sane while I was home all day during my pregnancy

This exactly. Except I still didn't join in on the forums much until after DD was born.

KeyLime81 · July 2012

I knew about the Knot/Nest/Bump, and while I had used all 3 sites for information, I had never joined the forums. The day I got my BFP, I spent almost the entire day on the Bump and I started lurking here.

I didn't join until later, and my first post was after our A/S. Part of the catalyst for me to start posting was that we were going to be having professional development based around using forums/message boards in the classroom and our summer assignment was to join two online communities...one personal and one professional.

I didn't really start posting though until after LO was born.

twocents6708 · July 2012

Ditto what several others have said - on the knot for wedding planning. Ran across TB when started TTC. I had more time then and posted more often than i do now.It was a big help when TTTC.

capulet · July 2012

My BFF was on TK back in 2000 when she was planning her wedding, which was how I knew the boards existed (it may have been just one forum back then). I joined in 2003 when I got engaged to DH and started posting on TN when that was created. I took a break for a while after DD was born and then became active on TB when I got pregnant with DS. I probably had thousands of posts on TK/TN but they don't show up in my post count. Stick out tongue

khbe14 · July 2012

I too started on the knot but never posted very much, just lurked a lot. I moved over to TTGP and participated some. I kind of forgot about the bump while I was pregnant but started lurking/posting again when my DS was about 1-2 months old.

jvg6909 · July 2012

When I was trying to get pregnant I was obsessed with finding baby names so I did a google search and ended up on the Baby Names board. Then from there I went to TTGP, then 1st Tri and somewhere between 1st tri & 2nd tri I found the Dec11 board.

vedwards · July 2012

I signed up for The Knot not long after getting engaged. I remember in 2005 when my friends were making their wedding pages and I couldn't wait to make my own!

I found the bump on accident. I remembered getting emails from The Nest after I got married and thought nest = home = family, but realized The Bump was specifically for babies. I started checking it out the day after I took a pregnancy test and it came back positive. I found the message boards not long after but it took me almost a year to start participating.

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