Coming out of the woodwork

MissMandyD · September 2014

Since this is my first BMB to go to term and I wondering if any of you STM who were on the Bump before can answer a question.

Were there this many brand new people coming out of the woodwork at the 11th hour during your last pregnancy?! I really can't believe how many new people have popped in to ask "am I in labor" questions in the last week. Some are clearly MUD and BSC and others seem to be for real. I am just curious if this is normal as due dates approach.

pnwlover12 · September 2014

I'm trying to remember...and I don't think so. I was a part of the O11 bmb and didn't join til May and felt that was pretty late.

JessAnnJ · September 2014

I don't remember this from D12. The main thing I remember is how many people disappeared after the babies were born. Many of the most frequent posters never appeared again. Now there are only about 15-20 that post regularly.

pnwlover12 · September 2014

JessAnnJ said:
I don't remember this from D12. The main thing I remember is how many people disappeared after the babies were born. Many of the most frequent posters never appeared again. Now there are only about 15-20 that post regularly.

It must differ a lot. I think it helped strengthen our bond. It didn't start to die until the following summer. Now it is a complete ghost town.

CNJ4EVA · September 2014

JessAnnJ said:
I don't remember this from D12. The main thing I remember is how many people disappeared after the babies were born. Many of the most frequent posters never appeared again. Now there are only about 15-20 that post regularly.

Almost exactly the same on May '13. We had less, but still a fair amount of reg posters after the babies were born. But after some major drama we lost a lot. Now there's only a handful of us left.

JessAnnJ · September 2014

@pnwlover12‌ part of it may have been that a private message board was created shortly before the babies were born and that's where people ended up.

pnwlover12 · September 2014

JessAnnJ said:

@pnwlover12‌ part of it may have been that a private message board was created shortly before the babies were born and that's where people ended up.

I think our board did this eventually, through something called Chatzy if I remember correctly. I didn't participate in that much so that is when my interest started dying down.

MrMrsandBaby · October 2014

My last BMB had an influx of random turn regulars after the first Facebook group disappeared. Then, not long after the babies were born, a second group started and it took most of the regulars.

But I don't remember this much crazy...

Emerald27 · October 2014

pnwlover12 said:
I'm trying to remember...and I don't think so. I was a part of the O11 bmb and didn't join til May and felt that was pretty late.

Were you really?!

I was on O'11, but I mostly lurked and didn't really become part of the community.

I didn't go to my BMB last time until really late in the game. I had found TB searching google for things and was technically supposed to be a Nov due date, but since I was to be induced early, I joined O'11 instead. Pretty much just intro'd and occasionally weighed in on a post, though.

I eventually became active on the AP board and stopped posting at all on O'11, and then when TTC this LO, I was really active on TTGP.

pnwlover12 · October 2014

Emerald27 said:

pnwlover12 said:
I'm trying to remember...and I don't think so. I was a part of the O11 bmb and didn't join til May and felt that was pretty late.
Were you really?! I was on O'11, but I mostly lurked and didn't really become part of the community.

I didn't go to my BMB last time until really late in the game. I had found TB searching google for things and was technically supposed to be a Nov due date, but since I was to be induced early, I joined O'11 instead. Pretty much just intro'd and occasionally weighed in on a post, though.

I eventually became active on the AP board and stopped posting at all on O'11, and then when TTC this LO, I was really active on TTGP.

I was!! On my old SN. There is another one of us from O11 who is due in Oct but she only pops in occasionally -- @sharksfan‌.

I always wondered if you were part of the O11 BMB but I didn't remember your sn. I was fairly active on there for about a year until I started working full time in the summer of 2012.

pinkshades05 · October 2014

I don't remember crazies on the Feb 12 board, either, but that was a while ago. I do remember ladies joining all throughout pregnancy and baby stages. Most of the regulars are in FB groups now.

Roseypants · October 2014

With DD about 4 years ago, the BMB's weren't as popular as they are now. We used the tri boards. I'm thinking there weren't this many newbs then, but oh well.

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