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November 2014 Moms
FYI Baby Expo coming to NYC next weekend.... has anyone been?
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Re: FYI Baby Expo coming to NYC next weekend.... has anyone been?
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Yes, and stop telling us which posts to respond to. We will respond to posts as we see fit. The women here have, IMO, gone out of their way to be kind to you, and you continue to come across as quite self-centered. To make friends, be a friend.
Take the time, refresh and recharge, but there's always going to be a "post" or a "bumpie" that seems outlandish and full of mud.
Even if you are religious, its best not to bring God into things like being pregnant and staying pregnant around here. It can offend people who are hurting over losses/potential losses.It is great, I think, that you seem to be religious, but by saying things like even if you mean well, it could come across as insensitive and sarcastic. Just the idea that God blessed some of us with take-home babies and others might not get that can rub people the wrong way.
Anyway, I hope you do continue to come back because you seem like a nice person who just doesn't know her way around our group yet, and I think we would all like it if you stayed and learned more about us by reading and replying to all of our threads instead of starting a bunch f your own that are pretty "exclusive."
I'll tell you a bit about me. I'm due Nov 14th, have a 2.5 year old son named Logan Timothy James (there is a story behind the two middle names, I would be happy to share if anyone wants). He was actually due Nov 7, but born Oct 31. His father and I aren't together but mostly civil, except for a few things here and there. My husband is Navy and deploying this summer and may or may not be able to be home for his child's birth so we may or may not be finding out gender. We got married in February but I got off birth control in January. I'm a college student and am praying my next semester goes smoothly despite my rather inconvenient-for-exams due date. I get recurrent UTIs and they are extremely annoying, and I am seriously neutral about this baby's sex although DH wants a girl.
Logan born October 31, 2011
Logan born October 31, 2011
oh wow, sorry I missed that
Do I need to hand in my screen name now?
I'm on a message board community for veterinarians and there was a guy who was being a "troll", trolling the boards for posts he could turn into an argument about how ungrateful and worthless younger vets who don't own their own clinics are. He finally attacked me for a very innocent post, so I called him out as troll.
He flipped his lid at me. I think the founder of the community finally called him IRL to explain what a troll was and that he was, in fact, behaving as one. You would have thought I had called him the nastiest name known to man. I thought he was going to GBCVets over it.
There are extremely specific posts by people every single day, such as: look at my Facebook announcement, I'm having a boy/girl, my NT results, etc. I don't have a problem with this at all but I don't think the occasional post about a regional event is a big deal. Particularly since it is in nyc, an area with millions of people in the city and many more millions within driving distance. The event certainly effects more people than someone's Facebook announcement. If she hadn't posted it, I wouldn't know about the event. I plan on going now.
A nyc specific thread isn't likely to be particularly useful. A special event is a special event, stuff like this doesn't come up regularly regardless of where you live. Most everything we talk about on this board applies to most people but there are specific posts too. Why care so much? If you don't jump all over them they disappear in a day anyways. I feel like the reaction is mud, not the op.
I see your point, however I can just see it snowballing to the point of "Hey NYC gals, how do you feel about XYZ hospital or ABC pediatrician?". That would get really annoying. And, like I said earlier, surely with a city as big as NYC there are some NYC specific resources online. I know that my area (Raleigh, NC - a wee bit smaller than NYC) has it's own website where I can discuss things specific to my locale, find info on daycares and doctors, etc.
I think posts about FB announcements, NT scans, baby's sex are different because they are something that a majority of us are either going through or will be going through.
JMHO.
And fwiw: I have no issue with this particular thread, its the whining the OP does in the threads and the simple fact that she refuses to take any responsibility for how she is welcomed and perceived on the board. Not just with this post but the other threads and messages.
I will say that looking at her post history, she has started to participate in other threads a little bit, which is a step in the right direction. OP, I hope you continue that and learn from this rocky beginning. Trust me, peope have come back from rockier ones and have become active members of the bump, so just don't worry about it too much and kinda lay low for a while.
Formerly Aaren91011